Best Swaying Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Stock dealers and banking companies, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and swaying the government by their possession of the printing presses, which their wealth commands and by any other means, not always honorable to the character of our countrymen.”

Source: The Real Thomas Jefferson

“I was brought up singing gospel, and I really enjoy getting the church up on their feet, their hips swaying, their hands clapping, it's a great feeling to evoke that energy for the Lord.”

Feelings Hands Energy Enjoy Church Lord Feet Singing Hips Evoke Great Feelings Clapping Swaying

Author:Jennifer Hudson

“You see people swimming, and you think, oh, how wonderful to swim. But most people stand on the edge swaying back and forth, afraid to jump. They don't think they can swim.”

People Thinking Wonderful Edges Swim Swimming Back And Forth Swaying

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“My stepfather used to be a clown in The Shrine Circus. He took me backstage when I was 23. I saw three elephants chained to the cement floor in the warehouse of the Michigan State Fairgrounds. Sadness, hopelessness and fear were emanating from their eyes, from their bodies. They were swaying neurotically from side to side. A monkey was screaming in his cage, grabbing the bars of his prison. Two tigers were pacing feverishly in their tiny cages. Cruelty was staring me in the face. I knew something was wrong. If you pay attention to energy, you can tell when a fellow being is in peril.”

“When I'm wearing too-high heels and swaying my hips, I do that Sharon Stone kind of thing - she has the sexiest walk, a New York cool thing that throws you back.”

Kind Walks New York Stones Hips Heels High Heels Cool Things Sexiest Sharon Swaying

Author:Queen Latifah

“A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.”

Faithful Association Nails Compass Wrecks Swaying

Author:Walter Scott

“It's no good being too easily swayed by people's opinions. You have to believe in yourself.”

People Believe Self Opinion Self Esteem Confidence Empowering Believe In Yourself Fashion Designer Swaying Easiness

Author:Donatella Versace

“Those who don't try never look foolish.”

Trying Looks Foolish Wicked Swaying Wicked The Musical

Author:Stephen Schwartz

“She was riding a bear! And the Aurora was swaying above them in golden arcs and loops, and all around was the bitter Arctic cold and the immense silence of the North.”

Silence Cold Bears Golden Bitter Riding Immense Arcs Loops Arctic Aurora Swaying

Book:Northern lights

Source: Northern lights

“Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do 'em all together, I guess.”

People Together Song Feet Fingers Ems Back And Forth Snaps Swaying

Author:Elvis Presley

“Journey’s end In western lands beneath the Sun The flowers may rise in Spring, The trees may bud, the waters run, The merry finches sing. Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night, And swaying branches bear The Elven-stars as jewels white Amid their branching hair. Though here at journey's end I lie In darkness buried deep, Beyond all towers strong and high, Beyond all mountains steep, Above all shadows rides the Sun And Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, Nor bid the Stars farewell.J.”

“Dancing through life Swaying and sweeping And always keeping cool Life is faught less When you're thoughtless Those who don't try Never look foolish Dancing through life Mindless and careless Make sure you're where less Trouble is rife Woes are fleeting Blows are glancing When you're dancing Through life.”

Trying Looks Life Is Trouble Dancing Blow Foolish Woe Fleeting Careless Sweeping Mindless Swaying

Author:Stephen Schwartz

“Do you know, I always imagine that the subway trains are dragons,' Rose said to Bear as they clung to his coat for support in the swaying car. 'Tearing back and forth across the city in their underground caves, devouring people and spitting them out at random destinations.”

People Knows Said Cities Support Imagine Car Bears Train Rose Dragons Destination Do You Know Imagine That Coats Caves Back And Forth Subway Devouring Swaying

Author:Regina Doman

“I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow. Oh, for the healing swaying, old and low, Of some song sung to rest the tired dead, A song to fall like water on my head, And over quivering limbs, dream flushed to glow! There is a magic made by melody: A spell of rest, and quiet breath, and cool Heart, that sinks through fading colors deep To the subaqueous stillness of the sea, And floats forever in a moon-green pool, Held in the arms of rhythm and of sleep.”

Source: Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters

“My parents danced together, her head on his chest. Both had their eyes closed. They seemed so perfectly content. If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky. Even if it only lasts for a minute or a day. The image of them gently swaying to the music is how I picture love in my mind even after all these years.”

Ifs World Years Mind Eye Together Lasts Parent Minutes Lucky Music Is Chests Name Of The Wind Swaying Love Picture

Book:The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:

Source: The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:

“Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse could cause, and he stood up, swaying, more frightened than he had been that day, more frightened, perhaps, than he had been in his whole life.”

Kind Whole Causes Heard Cry Terrible Whole Life Flames Curse Frightened Agony Stood Up Swaying

Author:J. K. Rowling

“He would have told her - he would have said, it matters not if you are here or there, for I see you before me every moment. I see you in the light of the water, in the swaying of the young trees in the spring wind. I see you in the shadows of the great oaks, I hear your voice in the cry of the owl at night. You are the blood in my veins, and the beating of my heart. You are my first waking thought, and my last sigh before sleeping. You are - you are bone of my bone, and breath of my breath.”

Source: Daughter of the Forest: A Sevenwaters Novel 1

“Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in double dawns; tossing tumultuously under vast suns of jade green and balas-ruby orange; swaying and weltering in rich twilights, in aurora-curtained nights, they resembled fields of rooted serpents that dance eternally to an other-worldly music.”

Earth Night Simple Sun Rich Growing Fields Planets Flower Green Plant Dawn Twilight Rooted Worldly Orange Serpent Rubies Jade Aurora Swaying Plants And Flowers

Book:The Demon of the Flower

Source: The Demon of the Flower

“I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.”

Thinking Pleasure Air Wind Garden Gold Prison Leaving Pale Restless Purple Arabia Toss Blooming Lilac Swaying

Book:De Profundis

Source: De Profundis

“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.”

Whole Moving Emotion Careers Audience Tears Married Actresses Satisfied Compelling Joyous Tribute Merriment Swaying

Author:Billie Burke

“You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.”

Men Political Influence Thousand Logic Prejudice Convinced Appeals Convince Rebellion One Man Convincing Revolt Swaying

Book:Revolt in 2100

Source: Revolt in 2100

“Arya, What are you doing?" "Syrio says a water dancer can stand on one toe for hours." Her hands flailed at the air to steady herself. Ned had to smile. "Which toe?" he teased. "ANY toe," Arya said, exasperated with the question. She hopped from her right leg to her left, swaying dangerously before she regained her balance. "Must you do your standing here?" he asked. "It's a long hard fall down these steps." "Syrio says a water dancer NEVER falls.”

Long Said Hard Hands Fall Left Water Hours Steps Air Balance Standing Legs Dancer Steady Toes Falling Down Swaying

Author:George R. R. Martin

“I didn't know where this stuff was coming from - all of a sudden I was a little magickal sprite, bonding with my stone, feeling my earth roots, la la la... All I can is describe the way it felt. And that was how it felt. So sue me. Was I swaying? I felt like I might be swaying.”

Knows Way Littles I Can Feelings Might Earth Felt Stuff Stones Roots Bonding Swaying

Author:Cate Tiernan

“My bed was pushed up hard against the wall just below the window. I loved to sleep with the windows open. Rainy nights were the best of all: I would open my windows and put my head on my pillow and close my eyes and feel the wind on my face and listen to the trees sway and creak. There would be raindrops blown onto my face, too, if I was lucky, and I would imagine that I was in my boat on the ocean and that it was swaying with the swell of the sea. I did not imagine that I was a pirate, or that I was going anywhere. I was just on my boat.”

Ifs Feels Hard Would Be Eye Faces Night Sleep Imagine Tree Sea Wind Wall Lucky Bed Ocean Window Boat Imagine That Pillow Pirate Rainy Raindrops Swaying Rainy Night

Author:Neil Gaiman

“And the flavor of Pippa's kiss--bittersweet and strange--stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the bus, melting with sorrow and loveliness, a starry ache that lifted me up above the windswept city like a kite: my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky.”

Way Heart Home Cities Sky Strange My Heart Sorrow Kissing Bus Flavor Ache Melting Bittersweet Sleepy Loveliness Kites Swaying Uptown

Author:Donna Tartt

“One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no unhappiness. One leaf left all by itself in the air and it does not speak of loneliness or death. One leaf and it spends itself in swaying mildly in the breeze.”

Doe Left Speak Sound Air Sadness Loneliness Despair Winter Branches Unhappiness Leafs Breeze Swaying

Book:Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934–1994

Source: Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934–1994

“Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.”

Love Chance Changed And Love Infinite Dresses Hunger Leap Swaying Kindliness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)

“All it has experienced, tasted, suffered: The course of years, generations of animals, Oppression, recovery, friendship of sun and - Wind Will pour forth each day in the song Of its rustling foliage, in the friendly Gesture of its gently swaying crown, In the delicate sweet scent of resinous Sap moistening the sleep-glued buds, And the eternal game of lights and Shadows it plays with itself, content.”

“I know this is a bit redundant, but it is really hard to explain just how loud Tiger Stadium is when you're standing on the field. The crowd is moving and swaying so much, and in so many directions, it makes the stands look blurry, like a pointillist painting.”

Knows Looks Hard Moving Bits Fields Painting Standing Crowds Loud Tigers Stadiums Redundant Lsu Blurry Swaying Tiger Stadium

Author:Wright Thompson

“When you see the trees swaying to the tune of a gentle breeze... think of it as a dance in your honor.”

Thinking Humanity Tree Honor Gentle Tunes Breeze Your Honor Swaying

Author:Marjolein Bastin

“I listened to the wind bury winter; and when I tasted his grace, his grace had no name; only, night became something else in his presence, as though darkness had a soul, here, swaying to heartbeats roaring.”

Soul Night Names Darkness Grace Wind Winter Heartbeat Roaring Swaying

Book:The Iron Hunt

Source: The Iron Hunt

“Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces and monstrous globular eyes, frosty gold, with an expression of intense, predatory madness in them. The crooked arms, with their fringes of sharp teeth, would be raised in mock supplication to the insect world, so humble, so fervent, trembling slightly when a butterfly flew too close.”

“Hawthorn, white and odorous with blossom, framing the quiet fields, and swaying flowers and grasses, and the hum of bees.”

White Tree Fields Flower Quiet Grass Bees Framing Swaying

Author:F. S Flint

“Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur of a million leaves against my window. Riot of trees, surge of dark green sounds. The grove, suddenly still, is a web of fronds and branches.”

Stills Sound Dark Millions Tree Wind Window Green Enormous Branches Beaten Riot Chained Grove Swaying

Book:A Draft of Shadows, and Other Poems

Source: A Draft of Shadows, and Other Poems

“The process of rating players can be compared to the measurement of the position of a cork bobbing up and down on the surface of agitated water with a yard stick tied to a rope and which is swaying in the wind.”

Process Water Player Position Wind Sticks Surface Chess Tied Yards Rope Up And Down Measurement Rating Cork Swaying

Author:Arpad Elo

“Since my stroke, I have begun to see so many miracles all around me. I look out of the window in my room: verdant grass, silver-tipped oak leaves, tall palm trees gentle swaying as they reach to the sky, masses and masses of roses. All colors, so many shapes, exquisite fragrances.”

Looks Rooms Tree Sky Color Shapes Mass Window Miracle Rose Gentle Grass Silver Tall Strokes Palms Fragrance Exquisite Oaks Palm Trees Swaying

Author:Kirk Douglas

“Your fingertips across my skin, The palm trees swaying in the wind, Images. You sang me Spanish lullabies, The sweetest sadness in your eyes, Clever trick... I cannot go to the ocean, I cannot drive the streets at night, I cannot wake up in the morning without you on my mind, So now you're gone and I'm haunted, And I bet you are just fine. Did I make it that easy to walk right in and out of my life?..”

Mind Eye Night Easy Walks Morning Gone Tree Sadness Streets Wind Fine Ocean Skins Wake Up Clever Tricks Palms Without You Sweetest Fingertips Lullaby Palm Trees Swaying Streets At Night

Author:A Fine Frenzy

“In the city of flesh I travel without maps, a worried tourist: and Ottilie was a very Venice. I stumbled lost in the blue shade of her pavements. Here was a dreamy stillness, a swaying, the splash of an oar. Then, when I least expected it, suddenly I stepped out into the great square, the sunlight, and she was a flock of birds scattering with soft cries in my arms.”

Lost Cities Cry Arms Bird Blue Expected Flesh Worried Maps Shade Squares Stillness Sunlight Tourists Venice Flocks Pavement Dreamy Oar Swaying

Book:The Newton Letter

Source: The Newton Letter

“The sun is shining, mynah birds are chattering, palm trees are swaying, so what. I'm in the hospital and I'm healthy. My heart is beating as it should. My brain is firing off messages that are loud and clear. My wife is on the upright hospital bed, positioned the way people sleep on airplanes, her body stiff, head cocked to the side. Her hands on her lap.”

People Way Should Heart Body Hands Sides Sleep Brain Sun Clear Wife Tree My Heart Healthy Bed Messages Bird Shining My Wife Loud Hospitals Airplane Palms Lap Firing Palm Trees Swaying

Author:Kaui Hart Hemmings

“Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world. Knee-deep in grasses and moon daisies, Stella stood and listened, swaying a little as the flowers and trees were swaying, her spirit voice singing loudly, though her lips were still, and every pulse in her body beating its hammer strokes in time to the song.”

Source: Gentian Hill

“if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have one. It will not be a pansy heaven or a fragile heaven of lilies-of-the-valley but it will be a heaven of blackred roses my father will be(deep like a rose tall like a rose) standing near my swaying over her (silent) with eyes which are really petals and see nothing with the face of a poet really which is a flower and not a face with hands which whisper This is my beloved my (suddenly in sunlight he will bow, and the whole garden will bow)”

Ifs Whole Hands Eye Faces Mother Father Heaven Poet Flower Garden Standing Rose Silent Beloved Tall Valleys Fragile Bows Sunlight Lilies Petals Red Rose Pansies Swaying

Book:Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte

Source: Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte

“Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free from a mud berth and swaying in its chains.”

Whole Cities Sea Built Ships Chains Tides Mud Lifting Seattle Swaying

Book:Driving Home: An American Scrapbook

Source: Driving Home: An American Scrapbook