Quotes About Swerve

The road is always unreliable," the sandwich lady said. "It'll twist and turn on you. It'll duck and swerve and land you where you don't expect and you got no business being. You need your wits about you if you want to ride the road.

Fourth, they sometimes 'swerved'. The swerve was a deviation from the basic downward path. It occurred frequently enough to cause the entanglement of many atoms; the result was a universe containing objects of a sufficient size to be experienced instead of a universe in which individual imperceptible atoms simply rained down. The atomic swerve, Epicurus thought, could supply the basis for free will, if only by providing a model of spontaneous, unpredictable, undetermined action.

Speech is a prank of Parliament, Tears a trick of the nerve, – But the heart with the heaviest freight on Doesn't always swerve.

But other times life changes in an instant, with a lightning stroke of good or bad luck, with glorious or tragic consequences. You win the lottery. You step out onto a pedestrian crossing at the wrong time. You get a phone call from a lost love at exactly the right time. And suddenly your life takes a violent swerve in an entirely new direction.