Currents Quotes:

The only way out of the current crisis is to amend the Constitution.

- Abhisit Vejjajiva

topic: Way, Constitution, Currents

Only everybody-all-a t-once can change the current chaos.

- Adi Da

topic: Chaos, Currents

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

- Agnes Repplier

topic: Elation, Currents, Conversation

Psycho-galvonic experiments show clearly that every emotion or thought is always connected with some electrical current.

- Alfred Korzybski

topic: Psycho, Emotion, Currents

Advice, the smallest current coin.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Advice, Coins, Currents

There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do.

- Andrew Cuomo

topic: Needs, Disputes, Currents, Albany, Current Situation

Things should be judged by distance traveled rather than by current position.

- Andrew Davidson

source: Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.143, Canongate Books

topic: Distance, Should, Currents

It will not be possible to solve the current crisis with euro bonds.

- Angela Merkel

topic: Currents, Crisis, Solve, Euro

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

- Anish Kapoor

topic: Art, Currents, Contemporary, Contemporary Art

We're all looking for a plan that will work. The current plan is not working, and 21,500 additional troops -- it's a snowball in July. It's not going to work.

- Arlen Specter

topic: July, Troops, Currents, Snowball

Obviously the current approach on ***** both in professional sports and amateur sports is not working.

- Armand Hammer

topic: Sports, Currents, Steroid, Professional Sports

Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.

- Asger Jorn

topic: Tasks, Painting, Currents

What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.

- Benjamin Bloom

topic: World, Currents, Persons

You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.

- Benjamin Walker

source: "Interview: Benjamin Walker and the cast of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson". Interview with Sharon Steel, www.timeout.com. November 5, 2010.

topic: School, Feelings, Currents, Irreverent

To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.

- Brand Blanshard

source: Brand Blanshard (2014). “Reason and Analysis”, p.493, Routledge

topic: Thinking, Currents, Oneself

Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel.

- C. J. Mahaney

topic: Currents

There's a spiritual current in my work because there's a spiritual current in my life.

- Carrie Newcomer

source: "Carrie Newcomer: On spirituality, music and a playlist". Interview with Hannah Heinzekehr, themennonite.org. August 18, 2017.

topic: Spiritual, Currents

He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord.

- Charles Scott Sherrington

topic: Brain, Nerves, Currents, Spinal Cord

Mark my words, there will be a day that will come when you will all see many, many documents that will directly contradict IBM's current public posturing.

- Darl McBride

topic: Currents, Mark, Ibm

History and geology show what an eyeblink it's been since our current, comfortable culture came about. And yet that culture is using up absolutely everything at a ferocious rate.

- David Brin

topic: Culture, Currents, Geology

There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.

- David Korten

topic: Needs, Politician, Currents

What you do with your billable time determines your current income, but what you do with your non-billable time determines your future.

- David Maister

topic: Income, Your Future, Currents

In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.

- David Perlmutter

topic: Decision, Behavior, Currents

The path to added muscle is consuming more calories than the amount needed to keep your current bodyweight unchanged.

- Dorian Yates

topic: Bodybuilding, Path, Currents

Beachy Head brims with electrical currents flying backwards and forwards, with the force of poems that have been well fought out and felt. I hear the currents of Alice Notley, of Bernadette Mayer, of Eileen Myles, and Sylvia Plath

- Dorothea Lasky

topic: Flying, Currents, Force, Plath, Electrical

There was never a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.

- Edgar Dale

topic: Ignorance, Affair, Currents

The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses.

- Emma Bonino

topic: Two, Political, Currents

You will not experience all life has to offer you or begin to experience life at its fullest as long as you are satisfied with mediocrity. You have to be disgusted with your current circumstances before your circumstances can change.

- Eric Thomas

topic: Long, Mediocrity, Currents, Disgusted

You have to be disgusted with your current circumstances before your circumstances can change.

- Eric Thomas

topic: Currents, Disgusted, Circumstances

O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'tis the mode of the day: but the acknowledgment passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.

- Fanny Burney

topic: Faults, Currents, Payment, Acknowledgment

I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time

- Franz Boas

topic: May, Currents, Anthropology, Presenting

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature

- George Ade

topic: Literature, Should, Currents, Rugged

When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.

- Gerry Mulligan

topic: Writing, Individualism, Currents

It's not just about the current economic environment. History shows that slashing budgets always leads to recession.

- Ha-Joon Chang

topic: Environment, Economic, Currents, Recessions

Diplomacy is the only clear answer to the current situation. There is no legal basis for referring Iran to the Security Council. But if that were to happen Iran is not afraid.

- Hamid-Reza Assefi

topic: Iran, Answers, Currents, Security Council

I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.

- Hank Azaria

topic: Weekend, Watches, Currents

The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will take on new meaning for him and which he will make his own when he has grasped their deepest significance.

- Henri Matisse

topic: Artist, Roles, Currents

The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current...

- Henry Giroux

source: "Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism". Book by Henry Giroux, www.alternet.org. 2011.

topic: Running, Culture, Currents, Electric Current

Don't depend on recent or current figures to forecast future prices; remember that many others knew them before you did

- Irving Kahn

topic: Remember, Figures, Currents, Forecasts

The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power.

- Isaac Mayer Wise

topic: Israel, Age, Currents, Indestructible, Edifice

Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.

- Jack Kingston

topic: World, Identification, Currents, World Trade Center

Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.

- Jalal Talabani

topic: Military, Alternatives, Currents

Current education policy is not in the interests of women. An injustice is being perpetrated.

- James Tooley

topic: Injustice, Currents, Interest

Intuitive design happens when current knowledge is the same as the target knowledge.

- Jared Spool

topic: Design, Target, Currents

Those are some strong currents you're swimming against.

- Jay Asher

topic: Strong, Swimming, Currents

If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.

- Jay Inslee

topic: Hockey, Ice, Currents, Greenland

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.

- Jess Walter

topic: Events, Newspapers, Currents, Current Events

A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable.

- John Bates Clark

topic: Sight, Raw Materials, Currents, Laborers

Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself

- John Dewey

topic: Moving, Currents, Moving In

The current Michigan Constitution was written in 1961 and 62.

- John Engler

topic: Michigan, Constitution, Currents

Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.

- John Kennedy Toole

topic: Roots, Intellectual, Currents, Dunces, Deodorant

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

- John Locke

topic: Communication, Rude, Currents

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

- Julian Casablancas

topic: Greed, Injustice, Currents, Greed Is Good, Greediness

Learning unconditional love helped me have healthier relationships, including my current marriage.

- Karrine Steffans

topic: Unconditional Love, Currents, Unconditional

I am not against all wars-just whichever is current.

- Ken Gillespie

topic: War, Currents

You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

- Kris Kristofferson

source: "Kris Kristofferson: What I've Learned" by Scott Carrier, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

topic: Currents, Oar

I don't dream a lot. But whenever I dream, I just dream about the day I just had or something like that. Mostly that's what I dream about. I dream about that current day. Other than that, I don't dream a lot.

- Lil Wayne

topic: Dream, Currents

I am as close to changing my life as my current positive thought

- Louise Hay

topic: Positive Thoughts, Currents, Changing My Life

That great, mighty current of evolution which is advancing the life of everything in creation is simply invincible - no one can resist it.

- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

topic: Evolution, Creation, Currents, Advancing

What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it.

- Marc Faber

topic: Government, Currents, Crisis, Intervention, Government Intervention

For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing.

- Marguerite Yourcenar

source: Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press

topic: Poet, Passing, Currents

There are few in America that really know how to take advantage of the current health care system.

- Matthew Lesko

topic: America, Care, Currents, Health Care System

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

- Max Cannon

topic: Culture, Current Events, Currents

We Americans are tempted to distinguish ourselves from other current and former inhabitants of this planet by assuming that we are ruled by progress.

- Michael Dorris

source: Michael Dorris (1994). “Paper trail: essays”, Harpercollins

topic: Progress, Assuming, Currents

She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.

- Mohsin Hamid

topic: Struggle, Currents

Greenhouse gas emissions: Ultimately, stabilisation - at whatever level - requires that annual emissions be brought down to more than 80% below current levels

- Nicholas Stern

topic: Levels, Climate Change, Currents

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer

- Otto von Bismarck

topic: Men, Events, Currents, Steers

Our current political system ensures not that the worst will get on top - though they often do - but that the best will never even apply.

- Paul Jacob

topic: Political, Currents, Worst

Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.

- Peter Coyote

topic: Kind, Prostitution, Currents

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

- Peter Hammill

topic: Sake, Metaphor, Currents

Now is the time to know that God is able. To connect your current reality with God's present ability.

- Priscilla Shirer

source: Priscilla Shirer (2013). “God is Able”, p.42, B&H Publishing Group

topic: Reality, Able, Currents, God Is Able

You've got to stay current and up with the competition. The main thing, though, is finding the greatest songs you can possibly find.

- Reba McEntire

topic: Song, Competition, Currents, Greatest Song

Like all biologists I simply acknowledge the gravity of the current situation. There are scenarios under which things work out well and to that extent I'm a cautious optimist.

- Richard Lewontin

source: Source: www.abc.net.au

topic: Work Out, Gravity, Currents, Things Work Out, Current Situation

I have always tried to stay current.

- Rick Baker

topic: Currents

I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.

- Rick Mercer

topic: Lucky, Current Events, Currents

I have been a lifelong Democrat. Like all ideas, though, the Democrat ideas need to be dynamic. It needs to be kept current.

- Robert M. Pirsig

topic: Ideas, Needs, Currents

The current days of the Internet will soon be over.

- Rupert Murdoch

source: " News Corp will charge for newspaper websites, says Rupert Murdoch" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2009.

topic: Internet, Currents

He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.

- Samuel Barber

topic: Music, Poet, Currents

Train at your current fitness level, or slightly above — not where you want to be.

- Scott Jurek

topic: Want, Levels, Currents

The sum of all the current regulations presents ever increasing hurdles.

- Scott Rigell

topic: Regulation, Currents, Hurdle

The amount of information that can be stored by the ultimate laptop, 10 to the 31st bits, is much higher than the 10 to the 10th bits stored on current laptops.

- Seth Lloyd

topic: Information, Laptops, Currents

The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing.

- Seth Rogen

topic: Ruth, Babe, Currents

The PSP will not be able to display anything that you cannot do on a current system.

- Shigeru Miyamoto

topic: Able, Currents

Even though nobody knew that you were in my life, you were the person who brought a raft at every rapid current and helped me cross that water safely. I was happy that you were there. I came to tell you I was able to travel through my life because I could come to you when I was anxious, not when I was happy.

- Shin Kyung-sook

source: FaceBook post by Kyung-sook Shin from Jan 09, 2012

topic: Water, Able, Currents

Your values are your current estimations of truth. They represent your answer to the question of how to live.

- Steve Pavlina

topic: Answers, Currents, Values

Katrina Kaif is the Hema Malini of the current generation

- Subhash K. Jha

topic: Generations, Currents, Current Generation

Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation.

- Suze Orman

topic: Giving, Financial, Currents, Gift Giving

My current works are abstracts cunningly disguised as landscapes. It is the Canadian way.

- Ted Godwin

topic: Way, Landscape, Currents

I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.

- Theodore Stevens

topic: Faces, Reform, Currents, Reformation

Your biggest problem, is that you think the current problem you're facing is your problem

- Tony Robbins

topic: Thinking, Problem, Currents

Joy is a great purifier. It burns away many polluted currents trying to reach us.

- Torkom Saraydarian

topic: Joy, Trying, Currents

The sensations of dismemberment flow through the forceps like an electric current.

- Warren Hern

source: Speech at the Associations of Planned Parenthood Physicians meeting, San Diego, October 26, 1978.

topic: Flow, Currents, Electric, Electric Current

Proverbs embody the current and practical philosophy of an age or nation.

- William Fleming

source: William Fleming, Charles Porterfield Krauth (1860). “The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students”, p.409

topic: Philosophy, Age, Currents

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

- William Moulton Marston

topic: Enough, Currents, Impulse, Stifling

Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinister current is to break the rules we rigidly establish for ourselves.

- Zeena Schreck

topic: Real, Break, Currents

Specific policy decisions would be absolutely necessary to promote the UK. It's not necessarily borrowing more or changing our current account status.

- Andrea Leadsom

source: Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

topic: Decision, Would Be, Currents

I often call my current work pornographic - when I don't, I can always be sure someone else will.

- Barbara Degenevieve

topic: Currents, I Can

If [YouTube] were to switch to Theora and maintain even a semblance of the current YouTube quality it would take up most available bandwidth across the internet.

- Chris DiBona

topic: Quality, Internet, Currents, Bandwidth

Teaching is learning. When you're teaching full-time you have to do research, stay current.

- Jimmy Heath

topic: Teaching, Research, Currents

The current drum sample market isn't offering enough options in terms of how the drums are captured.

- Joey Sturgis

source: Source: puregrainaudio.com

topic: Offering, Enough, Currents

Time has a certain current to it, and it wants to flow in a certain direction.

- Marc Guggenheim

topic: Want, Flow, Currents

God's love does not depend on the current spiritual condition of those He loves.

- Max Anders

topic: Spiritual, Doe, Currents

I'm standing up for the U.S. But it's hard when Russians don't have any respect for the current leadership.

- Michael T. Flynn

topic: Currents, Standing, Hard

It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.

- Rachel Zucker

topic: Writing, Currents, Situation

Young filmmakers are supposed to be the young turks that advance the current state of filmmaking ideas.

- Reginald Hudlin

topic: Ideas, States, Currents

This ocean circulation, a northbound current that sinks and then moves southbound, tends to go through multi-decadal changes.

- William M. Gray

topic: Ocean, Moving, Currents

Has anyone asked Donald Trump recently like how exactly does his current position differ from [Marco] Rubio`s or even Jeb Bush`s?

- Michelle Goldberg

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Doe, Trump, Currents, Marcos

Our actions will be at measured pace given the current market turmoil.

- Raghuram Rajan

topic: Pace, Our Actions, Currents

The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template.

- Ronald A. Heifetz

topic: Past, Imperfect, Currents, Present Situation, Current Situation

Our faith can reach beyond the limits of current reason.

- Rosemary M. Wixom

topic: Limits, Reason, Currents

I'm honestly not sure that I've ever tried to talk as a theologian about "homosexual acts," per se. My disagreement with the current teaching of the Roman Congregations is about what I consider to be their fundamentally flawed premise of the objectively disordered nature of the inclination.

- James Alison

source: Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

topic: Teaching, Currents, Homosexual

I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.

- Theodore Stevens

topic: Effort, Community, Currents, Restructure, Intelligence Community

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

- Judith Perelman Rossner

topic: Reality, Fantasy, Currents

I always like the current one [collection] the most, that's just my nature!

- Karen Walker

topic: Currents, Collections

Trying to keep up with current slang sucks.

- Keith Waterhouse

topic: Trying, Currents, Slang

You can’t let your current circumstances dictate what kind of choices you make.

- Kelly Clark

topic: Choices, Kind, Currents, Choices You Make

Clearly the price considered most likely by the market is the true current price: if the market judged otherwise, it would quote not this price, but another price higher or lower.

- Louis Bachelier

topic: Currents, Higher, Ifs

For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.

- Charles Baudelaire

topic: Beauty, Expression, Currents

The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.

- Charles Horton Cooley

topic: Currents, American Life

One who can learn to flow with the current as well as manage the current is the successful one.

- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

topic: Successful, Flow, Currents

I'm not sure that the current value of the NASDAQ is justified, but I'm not sure that it isn't.

- Paul Krugman

source: Paul Krugman (2004). “The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century”, p.39, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Justified, Currents, Not Sure

Current utility and historical origin are different subjects.

- Stephen Jay Gould

source: Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History”, p.63, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Historical, Different, Currents, Different Subjects

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Vanity, Flattery, Currents

The possibility of a war under the current circumstances is not far-fetched and there is some evidence for that.

- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

source: "Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani says Middle East may see a war in the near future". Press TV website, June 06, 2007.

topic: War, Possibility, Currents

As the dead rise to live, the live sink to die, the currents are deep and raging inside.

- Lou Reed

source: Song: Video Violence, Album: Mistrial

topic: Reality, Rage, Currents

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

- Alan Watts

source: Alan Watts (2017). “Alan Watts - In the Academy: Essays and Lectures”, p.275, SUNY Press

topic: Risk, Superstitions, Currents

The current state of knowledge remains vague when history is not considered, just as history remains vague without substantive knowledge about the current state.

- Ludwik Fleck

source: Ludwik Fleck (2012). “Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact”, p.54, University of Chicago Press

topic: States, Currents, Remains, Vague

I'm not sure at all about the current prog rock scene.

- Phil Collins

source: Source: www.theguardian.com

topic: Rocks, Scene, Currents

This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: "Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson".

topic: Men, Coins, Currents, Tinsel

It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Philosophy, Philosophical, Currents

Joy is a very high frequency current of energy with a great deal of energy content. Somebody who is joyful has a lot of energy.

- Gary Zukav

source: Source: www.williamjames.com

topic: Joy, Energy, Currents, Frequency

Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.

- Anais Nin

topic: Artist, Flow, Currents

Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.102, Harvard University Press

topic: Book, Speech, Currents, Citations

You're always - you're constantly learning things if you're the type of person who stays open and current.

- Ray Liotta

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Currents, Type, Persons, Constantly Learning

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can go your whole life if you stay current and you stay fresh.

- John Leguizamo

topic: Beautiful, Acting, Currents

Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.

- Martin Buber

source: Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.89, eBookIt.com

topic: Ethics, Moral, Currents

I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.

- Richard Bach

source: "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

topic: Letting Go, Boredom, Currents

Your current situation is no indication of your ultimate potential!

- Tony Robbins

topic: Currents, Situation, Ultimate, Current Situation

The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.

- David Suzuki

topic: Economic, Currents, Flawed

If the current is right, one can drift to success.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Success, Currents, Ifs

Memories contain hidden editorials on current events.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Memories, Events, Currents, Editorials, Current Events

We do not have to accept our current circumstances. We will change them. We are Americans. That's what we do.

- Rick Perry

source: Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

topic: Accepting, Currents, Circumstances

Another current catch-phrase is the complaint that the nations of the world are divided into 'haves' and the 'have-nots.' Observe that the 'haves' are those who have freedom, and that it is freedom that the 'have-nots' have not.

- Ayn Rand

source: Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden (1966). “The Objectivist”

topic: Phrases, World, Currents

Everybody acknowledges that the current path we're on is unsustainable, not just for the people who don't have health insurance but for those who do.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: People, Path, Currents

Your current thinking got you here. Only new thinking will get you out.

- Robert G. Allen

source: Mark Victor Hansen, Robert G. Allen (2005). “Cracking the Millionaire Code: Your Key to Enlightened Wealth”, Harmony

topic: Thinking, Currents

The current paradigm is so thoroughly established that the only way to change is to start over again.

- Donald A. Norman

topic: Starting Over, Way, Currents

Unlike the Concord, the Merrimack is not a dead but a living stream, though it has less life within its waters and on its banks. It has a swift current, and, in this part of its course, a clayey bottom, almost no weeds, and comparatively few fishes.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.62, Xist Publishing

topic: Weed, Water, Currents

We should not be surprised that the Founding Fathers didn't foresee everything, when we see that the current Fathers hardly ever foresee anything.

- Henry Steele Commager

topic: Father, Should, Currents

I think the worst mistake you can make in stocks is to buy or sell based on current headlines.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Mistake, Thinking, Currents

I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.

- Douglas Adams

source: Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.95, Pan Macmillan

topic: Work Out, Mind, Currents

He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]

- Juvenal

topic: Views, Public Opinion, Currents

A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens.

- Bill McKibben

source: Source: thinkprogress.org

topic: Citizens, Currents, Carbon

The current tax code is a daily mugging.

- Ronald Reagan

topic: Political, National Debt, Currents

Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless.

- Bob Dylan

source: Source: www.needsomefun.net

topic: Sound, Restless, Currents

Imagining the overthrow of the current political system is the only way I can be enthused about politics.

- Russell Brand

source: "Russell Brand on revolution: 'We no longer have the luxury of tradition'". www.newstatesman.com. October 24, 2013.

topic: Political, Way, Currents

Your current situations or problems have been sent to you to teach you valuable lessons for success and happiness. What are they?

- Brian Tracy

topic: Lessons, Problem, Currents, Current Situation, Valuable Lessons

Until you make peace with your difficult memories, that pain will continue to bleed into your current and future experiences.

- Iyanla Vanzant

topic: Pain, Memories, Currents

My current motto is to go for it, whatever it is that inspires you.

- Kylie Minogue

source: Source: www.smh.com.au

topic: Inspire, Motto, Currents

Bisexuality is our best hope of escape from the animosities and false polarities of the current sex wars.

- Camille Paglia

source: Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.94, Vintage

topic: Sex, War, Currents, Bisexuality, Polarity

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

- Laura Schlessinger

topic: Salmon, Life Is, Currents

At the current pace of change, we won't have universal access to education in 100 years, let alone five, and that is unacceptable.

- Shakira

source: Source: www.americasquarterly.org

topic: Years, Pace, Currents, Pace Of Change, Access To Education

The fastest way to get to a new-and-improved situation is to make peace with your current situation.

- Esther Hicks

source: Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2010). “The Vortex: Where the Law of Attraction Assembles All Cooperative Relationships”, p.104, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Way, Currents, Situation, Current Situation

You get much more heat when you do something current.

- Oliver Stone

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Heat, Currents

The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox.

- Simon Critchley

topic: Odd, Paradox, Currents, Current Situation

Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.

- Jane Smiley

source: Jane Smiley (2008). “13 Ways of Looking at the Novel”, p.279, Anchor

topic: Comforting, Enlightening, Currents