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«I believe I should have been swept away by the flood of French infidelity, if it had not been for one thing, the remembrance of the time when my sainted mother used to make me kneel by her side, taking my little hands in hers, and caused me to repeat»
Author: John Randolph
| About:
Infidelity
| Keywords:
flood, for one thing, Hers, infidelity, kneel, remembrance, sainted, swept, Swept Away, The Flood
«Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism. ... Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and 'swept along by every wind of teaching,' looks like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.»
Author: Pope Benedict XVI
(Pope)
| Keywords:
acceptable, creed, fundamentalism, relativism, swept, tossed
«I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared an intimate evening with my husband I was swept away by the passion (so dormant inside myself) of a long and tortured existence. The physical cravings I had tried so hard to deny finally and ultimately sated... but enough about the pork.»
Author: Roseanne
(Actress, Comedian)
| Keywords:
birth control, Birth control pills, cravings, dormant, eating away, eat away, intimate, Jewish, pills, pork, sate, sated, Sates, shared, sweep away, swept, Swept Away, The Passion
«Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.»
Author: Aleister Crowley
| Keywords:
acquisition, acquisitions, analyzed, anthropology, decently, enlightened, philosophical, philosophical theory, sweep away, swept, Swept Away, theory-based
«It was a dark and stormy night and the rain fell in torrents except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fierce»
«I read that I was in bed with her, which is a ton of shit. I have met her and it went like this: 'How do you do?' 'Hello, how are you?' Now when anyone asks about my affair with Madonna I say no, wrong - it was the Pope. He swept me off my feet.»
«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.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Future,
History,
The Present
| Keywords:
aside, hold fast, past master, relentless, rushing, swept
«It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
burden, desolation, past life, past times, sad, storm, subdued, subdues, sweep over, sweep through, sweep up, swept, vanity
«He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Manners,
Violence
| Keywords:
gulf, Gulf of, obscurity, precipice, precipices, predecessors, pushing, push away, sink, sink in, swept, Swept Away
«I call that mind free which is not passively framed by outward circumstances, which is not swept away by the torrent of events, which is not the creature of accidental impulse, but which bends events to its own improvement, and acts from an inward spring, from immutable principles which it has deliberately espoused.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
accidental, bends, deliberately, espouse, espoused, espousing, passively, swept
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