Top 376 Sweep Quotes & Sayings

Truth is buried, deep inside of men, sweep away each day.

I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.

I heard you're campaigning on my behalf." He walked over to me. "That wouldn't be because you'd miss me too much if I were gone,would it?" "Don't be absurd," I scoffed. "I don't condone murder, even for people like you." "People like me,huh?" He cocked an eyebrow. "You mean devilishly handsome, debonair young men who come to sweep rebellious princesses of their feet?" "You came to kidnap me, not sweep me off my feet," I said,but he waved his hand at the idea. "Semantics.

On the canvas of life, Every sweep of the brush matters, Counts for something.

Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.

Sweep picking is when the right hand sweeps down and up the strings in succession. But when you do sweep picking, one note rings into the next, and it sounds almost like you're playing a chord, and that's exactly what you don't want.

Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.

Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up wrongs of centuries; but they languish at times, while the love of self works on ceaselessly, unwearyingly,burrowing always at the very root of life, and heaping up fresh wrongs for other centuries to sweep away.

It's always thrilling to encounter the sweep of time in a work of fiction in a way that feels authentic and real.

Britain's way of dealing with disability is just to try and pretend it's not happening. A swift sweep under the carpet.

I'll sweep the floors. I've picked up napkins in the men's room. I'm not above anything.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

In the late '60s and '70s, when feminism was on the up sweep, there was an awareness of things that we're losing again.

In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.

As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall.

Get me a broom. I'll sweep my own office.

'Mulk' is a film that needed to be made. We can no longer sweep the isolation of the Indian Muslim under the carpet.

There are many names for winds derived from localities or from the squalls which sweep from rivers or down mountains.

Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.

There was no wind in all that sweep of sky.

I think we are all frightened a little bit when a new broom starts to sweep.

We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.

What fun it is to generalize in the privacy of a note book. It is as I imagine waltzing on ice might be. A great delicious sweep in one direction, taking you your full strength, and then with no trouble at all, an equally delicious sweep in the opposite direction. My note book does not help me think, but it eases my crabbed heart.

If You're going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You're going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don't be jivin'.

The truth is that cleaning up socks and trying to get someone to really listen to you is marriage. It's less sweep you off your feet and more sweep the kitchen four times a day. Like everything good in life, it's 98% back-breaking work and 2% moments that make the work worthwhile.

You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep the floor, put your power into it, use it as a concentration exercise, and be meditative.

You can't just sweep me under the rug like I won't come back stronger and better.

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.

To play sweep arpeggios correctly, you have to mute each note with the left hand immediately after picking it.

Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?

The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.

Like a snowplow in overdrive, a supernova shockwave might sweep away any gas clouds in its path.

I enjoy 'Supermarket Sweep' because of its adlib demands in following the fast action.

Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?

May the passion to be all that God wants you to be sweep across your soul like a gentle breeze.

All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.

It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.

Having a Mary Poppins-themed birthday party when I was 5 - all my friends went in dresses, and I went as a chimney sweep. I was a real tomboy.

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.

Sweep up the debris of decaying faith; Sweep down the cobwebs of worn-out out beliefs, And throw your soul wide open to the light of reason and of knowledge. Be not afraid To thrust aside half-truths and grasp the whole.

So whenever Marnus Labuschagne steps out, he hits the ball over cow corner for an offspinner, or he hits it over mid-off. It's very rare through long-on. And he doesn't have a flat sweep, he has a lap sweep, like a paddle.

I now extend to you the invitation to help transform the trickle into a flood….I exhort you to sweep the earth with messages filled with righteousness and truth—messages that are authentic, edifying, and praiseworthy—and literally to sweep the earth as with a flood.

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to

Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.

If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look for them with my eyes, and search for them with my clumsy fingers, and be unable to detect them; but let me take a magnet and sweep through it, and how would it draw to itself the almost invisible particles by the mere power of attraction. The unthankful heart, like my finger in the sand, discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day, and as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some Heavenly blessings.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

In the deadly sweep Of every wave, A thousand dangers lie in wait.

Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.

Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.

If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.

High in the air rises the forest of oaks, high over the oaks soar the eagle, high over the eagle sweep the clouds, high over the clouds gleam the stars... high over the stars sweep the angels.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Do you want to be great? Pick up a broom and sweep the floor.

Women are conditioned to believe Prince Charming is going to come and sweep them off their feet.