#swept

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. ↗

— Clarence Day

#feet #off #other #own #people

When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera. ↗

— William H. Macy

#camera #film #get #i #really

If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#book #caught #changing #characters #fiction

I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad. ↗

— John Pomfret

#among #being #bosnia #certain #certain extent

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

— Bradley Chicho

#brilliance #catch #drag #dust #i

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. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#aside #fast #future #hold #into

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

— Laura Schlessinger

#feminist #had #i #me #movement

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue. ↗

— George A. Smith

#enthusiasm #ever #feels #god #made

The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for. ↗

— Steven Squyres

#cleaner #extent #great #great extent #had

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#along #attitude #based #church #clear