Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.
I defy you to try it, Princess. Go ahead. I don’t even know how to sweep a floor. All I know how to do is use my body to please others. I was sick and alone with no references, friends, family, or money. I was so weak from hunger that even a beggar stole your himation from me while I lay on the ground, wanting to die and unable to stop him from taking it. So don’t come here now with your disdainful eyes and look at me like I’m beneath you. I don’t need your charity and I don’t need your pity. I know exactly what you see when you look at me. (Acheron)
You find a flower half-buried in leaves, And in your eye its very fate resides. Loving beauty, you caress the bloom; Soon enough, you'll sweep petals from the floor. Terrible to love the lovely so, To count your own years, to say I'm old, To see a flower half-buried in leaves And come face to face with what you are.
The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.
If each of us would only sweep our own doorstep, the whole World would be clean.
What a comfort it is to feel that amid the chaos and anarchy which sweep the surface, God is holding fast the foundations on which we build.
There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.
You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
I drive a car till it turns to dust, then I sweep up the dust and ride on the dust.
It is quite a thing. There are so many men, all endlessly trying to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me lest I fall.
Basic principles: no matter what, no matter when, no matter who. . . any man has a chance to sweep any woman off her feet. He just needs the right broom.
Tape allows for a clean sweep of data that simply doesn't need to be on any form of disk but still needs to be kept. The cost and capacity of tape makes these 'just in case' copies very affordable.
We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand blubber-hunters sweep over thee in vain.
How immense God is, that He is able to sweep into His purposes even foolish requests and bad motivations.
I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
It will create an excitement that will sweep the country like wildflowers
In the deadly sweep Of every wave, A thousand dangers lie in wait.
On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh.
