Sweep Quotations

I don't believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary people up, expose them to extremes of human behavior and unimaginable tests of integrity and courage, and then deposit them back on the home front.

When people really understand the Big Bang and the whole sweep of the evolution of the universe, it will be clear that humans are fairly insignificant.

People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger. When you feel upset, you sweep your problems under the rug because you don't want to upset anyone. You do this so quickly and automatically that you're not even aware you're doing it.

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.

There was no wind in all that sweep of sky.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

When I see something that's sensitive, I go, 'You've got to put that out there.' You need to keep the dialogue going and shine a light on the bad guys. If you sweep it under the carpet, people forget about it. People stop talking about it.

In the sweep of history, George W. Bush will be seen as one of our greatest presidents because of the decisions he made to keep us safe after 9/11.

I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.

Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that science is everywhere; science is not something you can step around or sweep under the rug.

While Pickstown may not be what it once was, it still is framed by the natural beauty of the ancient river, the sweep of the Great Plains, and the long, unbroken shoreline of the lake behind the dam. It gave me a 19th-century childhood in a modern mid-20th-century town, and for that I will always be grateful.

History furnishes thousands of examples of men who have seized occasions to accomplish results deemed impossible by those less resolute. Prompt decision and whole-souled action sweep the world before them.

The potential for this play is to sweep the audience into this world that they're not familiar with. Our general consensus about that hillbilly lifestyle is that they're inbred and ignorant, but they're not that type of people. They believe what they believe, and they believe it very strongly.

When you sweep the stairs, you start at the top

There is no one to sweep a common hall

We would really like to be able to sweep (the first series). That would put some confidence in our team.

We were in a great position to sweep a club that we feel we're a better club than, and we just didn't play well today.

We accomplished what we wanted to come down here with the split, but when you sweep the first day you get a little greedy and want to get at least one of the two (contests) the next day.

What we'll do is, send out form letters, last week of May. If you're not home, we'll leave you a card, saying 'give us a call.' Also at the end of the job, we'll make one more sweep through the neighborhoods.

We hit the mid-line a lot with Jared Kimmel up the middle and then we started hitting the rocket on the outside. We took advantage; the defensive ends were playing a little tight. We tried to get outside on them. We ran our rocket play - our quick sweep - and that really got us back into the game.

We set some high goals. We wanted to sweep everything. We came really close. If Kelly had landed on her feet on that last run we would have swept.

Love can sweep you off your feet and carry you along in a way you've never known before. But the ride always ends, and you end up feeling lonely and bitter. Wait. It's not love I'm describing. I'm thinking of a monorail.

May you have a bright future - as the chimney sweep said to his son.

My function as a writer and a speaker really is as a rubbish clearer. I try to sweep away a little bit of the rubbish that's accumulated ... so that people might look a little further down the road and see what new thing God might have waiting for them.

Obviously we want to win every game. If you sweep the first half of the conference that means you control your destiny in the second half.

OCIE is working on coordination and has committed to me that the commission will have a chance to weigh in on sweep exams.

Right now, I'm relying on the fire chiefs to verify their membership. I'm leaving it up to the chiefs to decide who they consider a fireman. Then if they're calling the person who stops by once every five years to sweep the floor a fireman, we'll reconsider it next year.

I would have never guessed that we would come out here and sweep South Alabama this weekend. But what a way to get us off and rolling in a new conference. We have been telling our guys all year that they are good, but it is another thing altogether to sweep a three-game series from South Alabama.

If we don't win this game, I don't want to say it would be over, but it would have been really tough to make it back. Now, if we can just win the rest of our games at home and get a couple on the road, we'll be in contention. If we can sweep Cincinnati, that will be huge for us. Then maybe we can slowly but surely creep our way back to .500 in the league.

I have full confidence that everyone who is going will represent really well. Everyone who is going is a really good representation of U.S. snowboarders and snowboarders anywhere. I think everyone has full potential to sweep (all the medals). The Olympics is the biggest event in the world, so I'm really looking forward to going there and having a lot of fun.

I didn't bear down. It would have been nice to sweep those guys but it was a bad day. It's the first time this has happened in a while.

Basically, we have to win out. That's the mindset you have to have. You've got to win every game and sweep San Diego for sure.

I have never had other kids in the house... I had a huge collection of marbles, and they all had names, which I think concerned my parents. I used to go and sweep outside and talk to myself, and my mum's friends would be over and say, 'Do you realise she is talking to herself?'

I can't remember when we've had a sweep like this before. This is really a great weekend to be able to have three of our different drivers win all three races.

Francesca's productions are always beautifully balanced between the intimacy of the characters and the sweep of the epic, and I think that she will use the symbols of America brilliantly.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

For us to get a sweep heading into exams is obviously a good thing. I thought our guys did a good job of playing hard all weekend, despite the weather related issues. I am glad that we were able to finish off the sweep to head into the week.

For too long the voice of Mr. Kennard has cried, but no one has listened. In order for the state to clear its past, we must lift up the rug and sweep the dust.

We talked about the importance of collecting wins at home. We need to get wins right now. If you have an opportunity to sweep an opponent at home you need to do it.

We sweep the hangars at least three times a week, and more if it's windy, because the ceiling begins to come down. Our objective there is to make sure that, when people take their airplanes out, they don't have junk all over the top of them.

We thought we had a chance to sweep them, but that's a great team over there. Two out of three I guess we'll have to take.

What we would have to do to make it is almost impossible to do if you think about it. But one game at a time, it's a lot more manageable. It's tough to sweep anybody on Friday.

He was one of those guys that right away, you knew he was gonna do a lot more than sweep the floors. I knew five years ago that Steve would be a crew chief. I didn't know if it'd be with me or some other team. But I always hoped that it would be for me.

He was needed here to sweep up some of the broken glass.

He was actually in front of Ira (Fabian) and Neil (Lloyd). I was coming from behind to pass him. As soon as I passed him, he put out his elbow and pushed me off to the left hand side and I just crashed, that was the end of it. I knew nothing else that happened. I'm disappointed in Chris. He knew that we could either sweep the sprint, or he, too, could be involved in it. He didn't play a clean game. We know in every sprint, there are things that take place. But, this beats all. He actually stretched out his hands and pushed. That's not cycling.

He is the new broom, and he can sweep clean.

This was one of those teams that we said we needed to sweep and we're getting it done. We divided the programs up as to what was realistic and who we thought on paper we should sweep and we are on track so far except for Georgia.

There are so many machines connected to the Internet, you will see ... attempts to sweep a whole range of Internet addresses looking for hosts that have weaknesses. It's like testing doorknobs.

I was just about to sweep it up. Then I saw something move and got a bit of a fright.

I think we've allowed ourselves in this society to become a little bit arrogant. People have all sorts of reasons that they live in poverty, and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps isn't always an option. It's too often that we sweep something away when we come upon something better. We need to remember that the person struggling to get by has value too.

I think this is really an effort by Nortel to sort of sweep the decks (and) move forward.

I think that that was their best game of the series. But nobody thought we were going to sweep the series so we just have to forget about it and move on.

It is indeed, a fearful place. The torrent, swollen by the melting snow, plunges into a tremendous abyss, from which the spray rolls up like the smoke from a burning house. The shaft into which the river hurls itself is a immense chasm, lined by glistening coal-black rock, and narrowing into a creaming, boiling pit of incalculable depth, which brims over and shoots the stream onward over its jagged lip. The long sweep of green water roaring forever down, and the thick flickering curtain of spray hissing forever upward, turn a man giddy with their constant whirl and clamor. We stood near the edge peering down at the gleam of the breaking water far below us against the black rocks, and listening to the half-human shout which cam booming up with the spray out of the abyss.

Last week's sweep of the guild nominations by Crash was absolutely the catalyst for this extensive mailing.

Regardless of what happened today, we've got to sweep. We'd need a miracle going for us to sweep them, but you never know. It was a miracle last year with Boston.

That doesn't mean we can walk away or try to sweep something like this under the rug, ... It doesn't fit under the rug. It needs to be dealt with publicly, and resolved as quickly as possible.

I wish we played them 80 times this year. That's a great team over there, but for some reason we just out played them. We got the sweep but now we have to move on and win this game on Friday (against the Nets).

I was trying to get there and sweep the puck away. It was an unfortunate mistake and took our momentum away.

It allows us to go out and sweep the city at a much faster pace.

I think it will get pretty crazy if the Americans sweep again.

The Arizona schools are good teams. The fact that we can sweep them in a year says a lot about our team.

The astonishing silences in a Tarkovsky film... can sweep you into screen and... you don't want to end.

That year, you can put it in a capsule, ... After the trade, everything kind of fell into place. We won the league championship. You go to the World Series against the mighty Dodgers and you sweep them in four games. It was one of those years you just didn't dream about.

That was a great first day of SEC play. The key now will be to keep it up Sunday and close out the series with a sweep of Kentucky. That will be a challenge against a hungry Wildcat club.

Most of the mess was on the plastic, ... The rest we would just sweep up and get rid of.

We feel great. The girls are learning to come together and play as a team. This was exciting. This was our first sweep of the years and the girls are excited. They are playing well and deserved it.

When it comes to our attention that the handler and dog make one sweep and stand for hours at a time, that is unacceptable to us.

We can't keep winning one game in a three-game series. We have to try to win the series or sweep it and we're not doing it.

While that may underscore our database growth in the fourth quarter, it bodes extremely well for database sales in the first quarter, and the second quarter and the third quarter, ... It's because we didn't sweep the table in the fourth quarter and we will never sweep the table again.

We are obviously excited to get our second straight sweep and I am pleased we have been able to string together some wins. I think we swung the bats well towards the end of the game, but we need to continue to improve in some areas.

The problem is in this day and age we can't just sweep them under the carpet like that. We have to take them seriously.

Those are things you don't understand and can't sweep under the rug,

We are deranged, walking among the cops, Who sweep glass and are large and composed.

We know teams are gunning for us. Especially after we swept South Alabama. We're a hot team right now, but we've got to go up there with the mindset that we're going to get a sweep or win the series.

When you're on the road, to get a sweep is a big deal. We'll shoot to win the series, but to get all three wins will be a bonus.

We did sweep the plane and we did find the handgun, and it was a loaded handgun. Once we got that we turned it over to the state police in Boston.

We still have the opportunity now, if we sweep (the Angels), to come out even for the last weekend.

There is a tiny chance that we will have a second round, but I fear Preval has made a clean sweep of the votes.

To win the series we obviously had to win at least one game here. It was big for our confidence, not having won one here last year, to pick up this victory. But that doesn't mean we're going to sweep them when we go home. They're a tough team. This is going to be a long series. I think it's going to go six or seven games. Hopefully we'll come out on top.

We do a sweep and check their I.D. cards before that time.

We'd love to sweep California. I'd love to get back in Victory Lane; I don't care where it's at. We're not taking the same car we won with back to California. We're taking a better car, a car we've won a lot of races in and we feel like we're gonna be a threat to win at California again.

This sweep was designed to bring awareness and get kids back in school.

There comes a time when you need to sweep (doubleheaders) in order to get into the state tournament. This stretch of games will probably determine if we go to the state tournament or not.

There is a big difference getting the sweep here. This was important for us for a lot of reasons.

Whenever a network lacks confidence in a show's performance, they sweep it under the rug during sweeps.

We have sent a message to those guys. You are going to see them come in with an attitude in Game 4. They probably felt like they were going to sweep us and get some rest for the second round. Now they know we have confidence. They know we think we can beat them. They are going to come after us and try to put us away. But we've got a lot of confidence now. That won't be easy.

This was a hard-fought game. UMKC was stinging off a home loss at Oral Roberts and their players played with a lot of fight and determination. They made key shot after key shot. I am pleased with how hard we fought. At this stage of the year, I couldn't be happier with where we are. To sweep six straight games at home is definitely a feat.

We made about a 48-hour turnaround. We had really played poorly down at Aiken (S.C.) and our kids have got great character. They showed great pride and I thought they made a great rebound here at the end of spring break. When we can come out and sweep a conference series, that's really a testimony to their character.

Fair-share health care is going to sweep the nation.

We've been on the other side of this. . . . You really have to sweep a series to gain any ground. Leaving here five up would have been nice, but we're up three and we've got other games to play.

We wanted to sweep once we took the first two. I get greedy. But it's a long season. We've played for a month, but I don't think we done anything yet. And one more victory wasn't going to change that.

To me, I'm just really happy we played a great game and picked up a big sweep down here on the road. Right now we're just playing really good basketball.

The opposition knows that if there is any popular revolt it will sweep them all away -- both the authorities and the opposition.

To a member of the audience who was heckling - 'Don't tell me how to do my job, do I go to your job and tell you how to sweep up

We cannot continue to sweep the problems of segregation and discrimination under the rug.

We were out there in the Southern Ocean, feeling very insignificant in a big part of the planet, ... At any minute, another storm would sweep in. We hatched a plan: Spike and I would climb up and jury-rig the fitting. As we started the climb, I told the crew that they must helm the yacht very carefully on the opposite tack, as the rigging was only holding up one side of the mast. If the helmsman made a mistake while we were up on the mast, we'd crash down over the side with the entire rig on top of us.

We felt like we were one sweep away from getting back in the race, and we were able to accomplish that this weekend. We pitched a lot of freshmen today and it was good to see them come away with a victory.

To sweep any team in the district is big time, especially those guys that are quick, fast and they play hard.

Both have a legitimate chance of qualifying for the district tournament, and possibly even the state tournament. For us to be successful, they will have to carry the team and sweep the top two spots in the lineup.