#swept

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. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#away #essential #man #mere #ordinary

We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that. ↗

— Steven Cojocaru

#hype #immune #machine #nobody #swept

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. ↗

— Clarence Day

#feet #off #other #own #people

When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera. ↗

— William H. Macy

#camera #film #get #i #really

If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#book #caught #changing #characters #fiction

I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad. ↗

— John Pomfret

#among #being #bosnia #certain #certain extent

Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I'm swept up in amorphous dust. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#brilliance #catch #drag #dust #i

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. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#aside #fast #future #hold #into

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#feminist #had #i #me #movement

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue. ↗

— George A. Smith

#enthusiasm #ever #feels #god #made