Fearlessness requires attention and receptivity-it takes focus to stand in the still eye of a tornado and not be swept away by it.
I am grieved that these continuing stories are everyday matters swept away.
I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.
For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness.
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.
My beautiful queen. Your entire court is staring at you, and I can't blame them. " They were, too. The queen turned to look. Her glance swept through the crowd like a reaping sickle through grain. Mouths slammed shut on every side. There was a scuffling sound as the people in the back shifted, trying to screen themselves from view. The queen looked back at the king, who was broadly smiling.
When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.
Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.
Whenever we are appreciative, we are filled with a sense of well-being and swept up by the feeling of joy.
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.
It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?
If you are swept off your feet, it's time to get on your knees.
Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.
Most romances aren't swept aside by big historical events. Most romances in the history of the world fall apart because of other, smaller happenings. History can sometimes be in the background, the thing which instead of rupturing your life merely irritates you by pressing itself now and then into the foreground.
Peter swept aside Yogi Tea and Harmony Herbal Blend, though he hesitated a second over the chamomile. . . . . But no. Violent death demanded Earl Grey.
Civilization itself. . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused.
I know how easy it is to be swept away by stories, by things you wish were real.
The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted ingenuity.
There is this fallacy about how women are catty, that we're all in competition with each other. I'd say: As opposed to getting swept up in jealousy, use that pang to give you an indication of what you are looking for.
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.