We have come too far, - struggled too long, - sacrificed too much and have too much left to do, - to allow that which we have achieved for the good of all to be swept away without a fight. And we have not forgotten how to fight.
There's no choice left in America anymore. Anything that's authentic and genuine, anything that grew out of any sense of tradition, is wiped out. We're left with this bland monoculture that's swept over the whole country.
If you are swept off your feet, it's time to get on your knees.
Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.
The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.
I know how easy it is to be swept away by stories, by things you wish were real.
I had my breakthrough at 6 years old and received the Lord, Jesus Christ. I was so swept up in the spirit, I told my parents I had future plans to enter the priesthood.
People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only dream about. And filmmaking offers that potential.
The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted ingenuity.
We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It's just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous.
The moon upon the ocean is swept around in motion, but without ever knowing.
He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence.
The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the gallery far up beneath the ceiling, the most exalted of the land in the boxes and the stalls, leaned indulgently forward, to be swept by this sweet storm of song.
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.
The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.
When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.
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.
For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness.
They're safe,'' he said. "And you're not made of glass". He swept me up in his arms. I laughed. "And I'm not made of glass. " He carried me into our room and kicked the door shut behind us.
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.