Sweep

Famous quotes containing the word sweep:

“Haste me to know it, that I with wings as swift
As meditation, or the thoughts of love,
May sweep to my revenge.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.”
—John Lukacs (b.1924)

“For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities—a willing movement of a man’s soul with the larger sweep of the world’s forces—a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)