Swept Away Quotes

Swept Away Quote of the day

Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective.

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.

And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

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.

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

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

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

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

How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on and stop getting swept away by rhetoric?

I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.

It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it's helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, "You're caught in the dream."

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

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

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

Fearlessness requires attention and receptivity-it takes focus to stand in the still eye of a tornado and not be swept away by it.

In the silence, in the darkness, swept away by these alien alkaloids and the plant-mind behind them, you find out a truth that can barely be told. And most of it can't be told.

Youth is so exciting. It'll take over. I don't want to be swept away. I want to be with the taking-over people, right to the end.

Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it occur to us to practice?

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

Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May New blooming blossoms neath the sun are born, And all poor April's charms are swept away.

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

Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity.

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

Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the kind that happens when we fall in love.

I try to see what the priorities are and not get terribly fussed about things that dont matter. Not be swept away by feelings and emotions, which is my tendency.

If you are love with the perfect, prepare to see it swept away. If you are able to dream of the impossible, it just might happen.

I truly believe that regret is the only wound the soul does not recover from, and so I'm trying to live without regrets. ... Each day is another chance to be swept away.

Doubts could be swept away only by deeds.

I sucked in the smell of her perfume, Viva La Juicy, and was swept away. La Juicy was part of my oxygen supply, even for the year and a half we were apart.

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.

Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away.

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

The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.

She tried to swallow, to take a breath, but her eyes met his, and there was nothing but aching intensity in his gaze. And she was drawn in, swept away.

I think relationships are very difficult. It's very easy to get swept away with excitement, glamour, and passion. I think the trick is to look for friendship rather than passion.

The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the ablest amongst the moderns.

Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.

Korean feminism has been swept away by popular culture. It became a sort of old-fashioned trend or a joke.

It seems Korean women are enjoying a passive and fragile status, intoxicated by appearance. Not only feminism, but any serious discourse ends up being swept away by popular culture in Korea.

Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy, but it's really about being transported and completely swept away by a romantic notion.

You are reduced / To the after-sorrow / That will last my lifetime. The hair-tearing / Grief of the mother / Whose child has been swept away.

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.

The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted ingenuity.