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Letter "S" » sweep
«A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart»
Author: Peggy Noonan
(Author, Journalist, Political analyst)
| About:
Poetry,
Speech
| Keywords:
beanbag, cadence, dullest, imagery, reminds, rhythm, sweep
«I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it»
«If a man has any brains at all, let him hold on to his calling, and in the grand sweep of things, his turn will come at last»
Author: William McCune
| Keywords:
sweep
«Drive on. We'll sweep up the blood later!»
Author: Katharine Hepburn
| Keywords:
blood, drive, later, sweep, sweep over, sweep through, sweep up
«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.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
Beethoven, composed, even as, hosts, Michelangelo, painted, pause, pausing, Shakespeare, sweep, sweeper, sweepers, wrote
«Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.»
«Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? / And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost.»
«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.»
«Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Collaboration,
Participation,
Responsibility
| Keywords:
clean, front, front door, in front, of his own, sweep
«Do not consider any act of service as demeaning. Sweeping the streets, for example, is not below your dignity. Do you not sweep the floor of your homes? Do you not scrub and wash off dirt? When you undertake such tasks, the villagers will also gladly share in them. Why feel ashamed to be good? The ridicule that may be cast on you has been the reward of many saints. It will soon fade away. Muhammad was driven out of Mecca by those who could not appreciate his teachings. Jesus was crucified. But their names resound in the heart of millions.»
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