35 Sway Quotes for You to Enjoy

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. Walter Scott

Truth Will Faithful Wreck Rusty Nail Placed Sway Compass Near

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

When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway me. That resilience came from my family. It flowed through our bloodline. Coretta Scott King

Family Me Heart Fear Feelings Our Rushed Through Allow Learned How Came Hear Refused Sway Racing Resilience

Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another. But if you do, there is one obvious cooking tip: Always remember to remove the bell from the cat's collar before cooking. Mike Royko

Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions. Bob Ehrlich

Words Own Through Instead Leaders Polls Sway Actions

I've been on so many movies. Generally, I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago, in 'Dear John,' I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn't a producer. I felt like I put the work in, and I did have a lot of sway on what got fixed, reshoots, so on and so forth. It felt really good. Channing Tatum

Work Good John Generally Put Like Felt Got Dear Gotten Been Years Years Ago Lot Fixed Did Movies Sway Forth Producer Really Ground Many Floor Level Two

Ads sway kids' preferences. Star athletes spokespeople sway kids' preference. Chuck Norris

Kids Athletes Ads Sway Preference Preferences Star

Ignoring party leaders in order to sway public opinion may work in countries where elected representatives are responsive to their constituencies. But in Mexico, members of the legislature cannot be reelected, so their destinies depend less on the will of the people than on party bosses. Denise Dresser

Work People Will Party Depend Destinies Members Responsive Bosses Leaders Countries Opinion Mexico Than May Representatives Legislature Where Order Cannot Public Sway Elected Ignoring Less Public Opinion

I was not the young heroic model for 'Hamlet.' I tended to play those characters that orbited around them: the rogues and the rat bags and the idiots and the fools and the clowns that sway the plot somehow from a tangent. Geoffrey Rush

Rat Fools Young Heroic Those Plot Characters Somehow Bags Around Idiots Hamlet Model Rogues Clowns Sway Them Play

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

Law Took Emergency Civilization Disappeared Thus Longer Until Territories Spread West Existing Gradually Orderly Place Processes Sway Far Held

The IP standards advanced countries favour typically are designed not to maximise innovation and scientific progress, but to maximise the profits of big pharmaceutical companies and others able to sway trade negotiations. Joseph Stiglitz

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

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

Life You Power Own Relative Particular Until Him Proverb His Friend Sway Your Watched Applied Apply

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