Swept Away Quotes - Page 2

• Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.

  Jim Rogers

  Thinking, Facts, Chance

  Jim Rogers (2014). “A Gift to my Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing”, p.62, John Wiley & Sons

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• I can now see that our needs meshed perfectly: my need to be swept away by a man, to be held securely and adored by a man, and his need to find the girl who would be pliable and receptive to his idea of a couple, who wouldn't question his unspoken authority. I don't mean he wanted a mouse—and he knew very well he wasn't getting one.

  Betsy Blair

  Girl, Couple, Mean

  Betsy Blair (2003). “The Memory of All that: Love and Politics in New York, Hollywood, and Paris”, Knopf

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• The easy way is efficacious and speedy, the hard way arduous and long. But, as the clock ticks, the easy way becomes harder and the hard way becomes easier. And as the calendar records the years, it becomes increasingly evident that the easy way rests hazardously upon shifting sands, whereas the hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away.

  Colonel Sanders

  Years, Long, Records

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

  Sheila Nevins

  Everyday, Stories, Matter

  "Jordan Davis Documentary '3 1/2 Minutes' Heading to HBO" by Daniel Kreps, www.rollingstone.com. January 31, 2015.

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• A story must be told in such a way that it constitutes help in itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked him to tell a story about his teacher. And he related how the holy Baal Shem used to hop and dance while he prayed. My grandfather rose as he spoke, and he was so swept away by his story that he himself began to hop and dance to show how the master had done. From that hour he was cured of his lameness. That's how to tell a story.

  Martin Buber

  Teacher, Rose, Grandfather

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• For what will it profit men that a more prudent distribution and use of riches make it possible for them to gain even the whole world, if thereby they suffer the loss of their own souls? What will it profit to teach them sound principles in economics, if they permit themselves to be so swept away by selfishness, by unbridled and sordid greed, that hearing the commandments of the Lord, they do all things contrary.

  Pope Pius XI

  Loss, Men, Greed

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI)., Pope Pius XI. (1931). “On Social Reconstruction: Encyclical Letter”

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• 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.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Good Night, Sleep, Desire

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Science, Men, Progress

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• We do not know what we can bear until we are put to the test. Many a delicate mother, who thought that she could not survive the death of her children, has lived to bury her husband and the last one of a large family, and in addition to all this has seen her home and last dollar swept away; yet she has had the courage to bear it all and to go on as before. When the need comes, there is a power deep within us that answers the call.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Mother, Husband, Children

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “Peace, Power & Plenty (Unabridged): Before a Man Can Lift Himself, He Must Lift His Thought”, p.7, e-artnow

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• This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while we sit here, while we go away to dinner or home to bed? Nearly, 1000 - Englishmen, Britishers, and the other is America...Everything else is swept away.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Home, America

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• 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.

  Pema Chodron

  Perspective, Patient, Painful

  Pema Chodron (2007). “Always Maintain a Joyful Mind: And Other Lojong Teachings on Awakening Compassion and Fearlessness”, p.85, Shambhala Publications

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• Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery. And though we spend most of our time on the surface in the daily details of ordinary existence, most us hunger to connect to this space within, to break through to bliss, to be swept away into something bigger than us.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Moving, Break Through, Space

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• If I could have made the change sooner I daresay I should never have given a thought to the literary delights of Paris or London; for life in the country is the only state which has always completely satisfied me, and I had never been allowed to gratify it, even for a few weeks at a time. Now I was to know the joys of six or seven months a year among fields and woods of my own, and the childish ecstasy of that first spring outing at Mamaroneck swept away all restlessness in the deep joy of communion with the earth.

  Edith Wharton

  Country, Spring, Years

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• The greatest crisis of our lives is neither economic, intellectual, nor even what we usually call religious. It is a crisis of imagination. We get stuck on our paths because we are unable to reimagine our lives differently from what they are right now. We hold on desperately to the status quo, afraid that if we let go, we will be swept away by the torrential undercurrents of our emptiness.

  Marc Gafni

  Letting Go, Religious, Imagination

  FaceBook post by Marc Gafni from Aug 26, 2015

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

  Jethro Tull

  Future, Castles, Moral

  Song: Thick As A Brick Edit No. 1

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• 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.

  Nicolas Roeg

  People, Want, Youth

  "Nicolas Roeg: 'I don't want to be ahead of my time'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2011.

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

  John F. Kennedy

  Self, Progress, Debris

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.306, Best Books on

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• Those who can serve best, those who help most, those who sacrifice most, those are the people who will be loved in life and honoured in death, when all questions of colour are swept away and when in a free country free citizens shall meet on equal grounds.

  Annie Besant

  Spiritual, Country, Memorable

  Annie Besant (1913). “Wake Up, India: A Plea for Social Reform”

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• 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, Character, Reality

  "Jodi Picoult Turns Tough Topics Into Best-Sellers". Morning Edition, www.npr.org. March 13, 2012.

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• Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Buddhist, Morning, Spring

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• 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.

  Jon Stewart

  Long Ago, People, Political

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

  William H. Macy

  Cameras, Watches, Film

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

  Thomas Sowell

  Long, People, Heaven

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• In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate shaping of all things and from never being swept away, whatever the emotion into confusion or dullness.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Art, Self

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• I had a dream that Louis Armstrong was playing the 'Swept Away' melody. I have no idea where it came from. But Louis Armstrong was playing it and singing the song to me. I woke up-it's a borrowed melody no doubt-and wrote it down. If I hear a song and I choose not to put it down, that's me neglecting to accept that song. I think there's a very spiritual and godly-type ting that happens, and it happens to way more people than we know. It's just that very few of us choose to engage it.

  Scott Avett

  Dream, Spiritual, Song

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