Quotes About Swept

My path is full of petals–I have swept it for no others. My thatch gate has been closed–but opens now for you. It's a long way to the market, I can offer you little– Yet here in my cottage there is old wine for our cups.

The avalanche was down, the hillside swept bare behind it; the last echoes died on the white slopes; the new mount glittered and lay still in the silent valley.

In any case, you can't have effective allegory in times when people are swept this way and that by momentary convictions, because everyone will read it differently. You can't indicate moral values when morality changes with what is being done, because there is no accepted basis of judgment. And you cannot show the operation of grace when grace is cut off from nature or when the very possibility of grace is denied, because no one will have the least idea of what you are about.

A dark provider skimmed lazily along above them. As it swept over their heads, it cast forth food for them.

Here was a whole life Beth had missed, a hole where a life should have been. But then, he thought, the universe was made up of holes--was it so terrible to be swept into one? After all. The holes were the black between stars, between constellations. It was holes that were the fabric of the galaxy.

and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.

gazing down at the black water remembering all the stories of women who had thrown themselves into it. They'd done it for love, because that was the effect love had on you. It snuck up on you, it grabbed hold of you before you knew it, and then there was nothing you could do. Once you were in it- in love- you would be swept away, regardless. Or so the books had it.

because that was the effect love had on you. It snuck up on you, grabbed hold of you before you know it, and then there was nothing you could do. Once you were in it - in love - you would be swept away, regardless. Or so the books had it.

Was Tara still standing? Or was Tara also gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia?

When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.

The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats.

O the terror— the suffering, for all the world to see, the worst terror that ever met my eyes. What madness swept over you?

Americans swept away the instruments of English hereditary inequality - entails and titles of nobility - even before we had a constitution.

Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. PSALM 42:7

You've forgotten your little car,' she called, as I swept through the door that Nathan held open for me. 'Why, does that need a bloody badge too?' I said, and followed them into the lift.

Things swept so badly that I had distrust - after 1967, let's say - of American Keynesianism. For better or worse, U.S. Keynesianism was so far ahead of where it started. I am a cafeteria Keynesian.

Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel." Reading Today Online, International Reading Association

I think the world will be a better place when science has swept all religions into the dustbin of history. What is religion but a shared belief in things that cannot be known.

Where the father of the family brings sin home to the house, it is not easily swept out.

How can the writer know reality if it is that which gets into him and sweeps him away, forever onto the sidelines.

The sky was a fresh-swept blue, with only a trace of white cloud clinging to the dome of heaven like a thin streak of test paint

I have seen 'Thor', yeah. It's fantastic. Being that close to something, it's often pretty hard to watch yourself, but the film in so many ways is so impressive that I was swept along with it like an audience member, and that's a pretty good sign.

Love has no charm when Love is swept to earth: you'd make a lop-winged god, frozen and contrite, of god up-darting, winged for passionate flight.

a kaleidoscopic, fragmented rush of images that exploded out of memory. They careened into her like an avalanche and swept her away