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sway Quotes and Quotations
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Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand. Robert G. Allen | top
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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. Aristotle | top
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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness. Aristotle | top
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Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you. Nicholson Baker | top
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How many McDonald's gift certificates would it take to sway a lot of Americans to pledge to never publicly criticize the U.S, President? James Bovard | top
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An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married. Billie Burke | top
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Things at home are crossways, and Betsy and I are out. Will Carleton | top
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Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions. Robert. L. Ehrlich | top
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When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument. Zsa Zsa Gabor | top
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So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency. Todd Gitlin | top
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But Eddie does not make all the decisions. Eddie can listen to reason; Eddie can be swayed or talked in or out of certain things. Eddie allows other people to lead in this band and to have certain roles that are very fundamental to the decision-making process. Stone Gossard | top
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Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me. David Guterson | top
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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. William James | top
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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey. Matthew Prior | top
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Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand. Cardinal De Retz | top
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The fact is that you're never gonna believe any of the reviews, because the movie is to you what it is to you. No one's ever gonna sway you from what you feel about it. Campbell Scott | top
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A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. Walter Scott | top
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My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful. Dusty Springfield | top
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Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion. Willie Stargell | top
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It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway? Bram Stoker | top
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I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world. Taliesin | top
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Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. Sara Teasdale | top
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You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like that at times, they are easily led. Johnny Vegas | top
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Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West. Ida B. Wells | top
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You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart. Ella Wheeler Wilcox | top