Top 309 Sweeping Quotes & Sayings

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

For me, I always think of the image of sweeping out my footprints as I walk through a scene.

A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday's life.

I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.

Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world.

whether they'll write the story of my life as a tragedy or an epic fantasy... I was wondering if it was going to be a kiss at the end, or sad music and a sweeping camera shot over the fields I once roamed freely. I'm hoping for the kiss, but expecting the sweeping camera shot.

I'm a California girl, right? I grew up with that farm-to-table dining before it was sweeping the nation.

When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people.

Economic and political structures that have a far sweeping impact on the lives of billions is not outside the purview of the gospel's redemptive influence.

One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.

I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it.

I don't care if I'm starting or sweeping the floors. You hear me? I want to win.

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line.

Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.

I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'

The drum of the realization of the promise is beating, we are sweeping the road to the sky. Your joy is here today, what remains for tomorrow?

When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record.

During the lockdown, I remain busy in household chores. Since there are no domestic helps, we have to everything from sweeping to mopping and washing utensils on our own.

Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore.

Obama has presided over sweeping cultural advances, particularly in the rights of gay and lesbian Americans.

Meditation is like a giant broom for sweeping away any stagnant or blocked energy that you may have buried deep in your body.

I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.

Love is sweeping the country.

Making sweeping over-generalizations is classically un-American.

I feel like we are so much more comfortable sweeping things under the rug and putting on a brave face, and to me, sweeping under the rug is a coward move, not a brave move at all. I want to get out there and have a conversation.

In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader.

The great hope for a quick and sweeping transition to renewable energy is wishful thinking.

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry.

The American Scream is the personification of the plague of madness sweeping the states. Only he's real

I love those books like 'Gone with the Wind,' the huge, sweeping family sagas.

Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.

The problem is that many of our policymakers want to base sweeping laws on those feelings.

Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.

These are strange times. I'm 37 and this is the weirdest the world's ever felt. There's a right-wing, nationalistic anger sweeping through Europe and America.

The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row.

We are glad to be a part of the K-pop boom sweeping Asia and ready to show the music of 2PM to our fans.

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

When I heard Donald Trump make that sweeping hysterical statement that all Muslims have to be banned because they are terrorists, I was chilled by that.

The American agenda is sweeping everything before it, and although it's not perfect, the EU is better on environmental issues. It's a less rapacious form of capitalism.

George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand strategy since the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

(About sweeping).... What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends.

Sweep the garden, any size, said the roshi. Sweeping, sweeping alone as the garden grows large or small. Any song sung working the garden brings up from sand gravel soil through straw bamboo wood and less tangible elements Power song for the hands Healing song for the senses what can and cannot be perceived of the soul.

The white man knows what a revolution is. He knows that the Black Revolution is worldwide in scope and in nature. The Black Revolution is sweeping Asia, is sweeping Africa, is rearing its head in Latin America. The Cuban Revolution - that's a revolution. They overturned the system. Revolution is in Asia, revolution is in Africa, and the white man is screaming because he sees revolution in Latin America. How do you think he'll react to you when you learn what a real revolution is?

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions.

ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

I do think a founder has special permission to make sweeping changes across an organization.

Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.

The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.

With no specific procedure, man arrived at sweeping conclusions about the universe that have proven to be true.

Animation is incredibly difficult - much like doing a giant sweeping fantasy novel.

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.

Before getting to my mother's house, I would always think of her on the porch or even on the street, sweeping. She had a light way of sweeping, as if removing the dirt were not as important as moving the broom over the ground. Her way of sweeping was symbolic; so airy, so fragile, with a broom she tried to sweep away all the horrors, all the loneliness, all the misery that had accompanied her all her life.

I see massive potential for entertainment to create wide sweeping change.

I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.

We need a sweeping debate about ethics, boundaries, and regulation for location data technologies.

You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.