If everyone swept in front of his house, the whole town would be clean.
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.
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.
See that your own hearth is swept before you lift your neighbor's ashes.
My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain.
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 prac...
The green sea swept into the shallows and seethed there like slaking quicklime. It surged over the rocks, tossing up spangles of water like a juggler and catching them deftly again behind. It raced knee-deep through the clefts and crevices, twisted a...
Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.
No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
You can get swept away by a musical, but real tears are rare.
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
Some girls get swept up in the lifestyle - clubbing and partying with celebrities. You can't live your life like that, though. It's fake.
There's such an energy bounding around New York, I can't help but get swept along in it.
People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only dream about. And filmmaking offers that potential.
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny.
You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
If it was to be a time of momentous changes, then why not allow oneself to be swept along?