Top 518 Swept Quotes & Sayings

The moon upon the ocean is swept around in motion, but without ever knowing.

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.

Ever since I've met you, I've swept you off my feet.

Any sort of political correctness needs to be swept out of the way

Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores.

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it. If you're swept away by it you can't wait to do it again and the same magical moments always come.

As always, Blay was the anchor who kept him from being swept away.

Hello, hello.” Magnus swept toward them..."Alec, my darling, Clary. And rat-boy." He swept a bow toward Simon, who looked annoyed. "To what do I owe the pleasure?" "We came to see Jace," Clary said. "Is he all right?" "I don’t know," Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?" "What –," Alec began, and broke off as Magnus laughed. "That’s not funny." "You’re so easy to tease. And yes, your friend is just fine. Well, except that he keeps putting all my things away and trying to clean up. Now I can’t find anything. He’s compulsive.

I know how easy it is to be swept away by stories, by things you wish were real.

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

There's such an energy bounding around New York, I can't help but get swept along in it.

It was a debacle which swept the Columbia Plateau.

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away.

It was here we turned the coffee cups upside down. And your eyes and the moon swept the valley.

It's never fun to get swept, but it's going to happen.

The hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away

I would find myself in these photo shoots with models and makeup, and I got swept up in it all.

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.

Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.

My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain.

The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

I've been so swept up in the 'Loki' story.

I tended to be hard on the egos of a certain kind of men. The ones who normally swept women off their feet had never moved me much, because I'd always felt that if they swept me off my feet they'd practiced on a lot of women before me, and would practice more with women after me. I'd rarely been wrong on that. ~Anita Blake

Wounds simply won't heal if they are swept under the carpet.

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.

Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away

I did not want the #MeToo movement to be swept under the rug.

He's swept with the broom of contempt and the rooms have an empty ring.

I saw the lovely arch Of rainbow span the sky, The gold sun burning As the rain swept by.

Doubts could be swept away only by deeds.

...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.

For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness.

[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.

We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.

Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I'm swept up in amorphous dust.

It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?

The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.

You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.

People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose.

That's the food chain that cricket is sometimes. You have to be at the top of it otherwise you get swept away and eaten up.

It's easy to get swept up in the day to day ridiculous things that are in the news. They're not meaningless, they're legitimate and worth being engaged with. But it's easy to get overwhelmed and swept up and forget what real life feels like.

I think when people think of Pompeii, they think it was just destroyed by the volcano. Yes, it was the eruption of the volcano that eventually caused the pyroclastic surge that swept over Pompeii and destroyed it for good. But also, they had to face the effects of a very extreme earthquake and a tidal wave that swept in from the Bay of Naples.

Getting swept is hard.

I am grieved that these continuing stories are everyday matters swept away.

Whenever we are appreciative, we are filled with a sense of well-being and swept up by the feeling of joy.

It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history.

I'm swept along by larger forces out of my control.

I think it would be a tragic statement of the universe if Java was the last language that swept through.

I like being swept up in weather and observing it as something beautiful and giant.

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused.

Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Year's end, all corners of this floating world, swept.

It's up to comedians to shine the light on what's wrong in the world, and we don't want things swept under the rug.

You can get swept away by a musical, but real tears are rare.

[Whole] generations may be swept away by the madness of kings in the space of a single hour.