#sweep

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#boulder #expect #him #man #must

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

— Billy Sunday

#falls #land #might #niagara #our

What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory.' ↗

— Chris Evans

#am #big #blood #diamond #ed

What frustrates me about some high-concept shows is that they don't give you information until sweeps, but 'Jericho's' audience will get a large piece of the puzzle every week. ↗

— Sprague Grayden

#audience #every #frustrates #get #give

Fire is a fragile lover, court her well, neglect her not; her faith is like a misty smoke, her anger is destructive hot. ↗

— — Cate Tiernan

#anger

Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere. ↗

— Emma Smith

#life #rapid #river #simile #sweep

I felt an overwhelming gratitude in my life right now and wanted a chance to acknowledge it. I felt that any thanks given to any god all went to the same place, anyway, no matter what religion you were centered in. ↗

— Cate Tiernan

#religion #sweep-wicca #life

The unthankful heart... 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! ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#blessings #day #discovers #every #find

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart. ↗

— Mort Walker

#brush #cobwebs #heart #laughter #sweeps

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

— Kenneth Branagh

#carpet #certainly #guilty #i #sweep