Currents Quotations

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway.

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

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

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.

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

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

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

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

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

The batteries are gradually becoming charged, and if the prudence of the government does not provide an outlet for the currents that are accumulating, some day the spark will be generated.

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

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

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.

To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.

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

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

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

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

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.

The first lesson my kids got about the ocean was to respect it. You can never turn your back on the ocean when you're dealing with tides and currents - factors beyond your control. You have to be the CEO of your family on the water. CEO stands for 'constant eyes on,' and it's something I never forget.

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

I like America, where believers eddy around each other like currents of air. Even our atheists are devout! To be an American is to be a believer. I don't have much faith in institutions, but I still believe in people.

When a coil is operated with currents of very high frequency, beautiful brush effects may be produced, even if the coil be of comparatively small dimensions. The experimenter may vary them in many ways, and, if it were nothing else, they afford a pleasing sight.

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

If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.

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

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

The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.

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

Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel.

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

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

How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

In its current incarnation in my life touring is a lot of airports and hotels and car services and only OK food.

There are a lot of cross currents today. And there is talk that one of the big hedge funds is going under the waves.

There are a lot of cross currents out there ... but overall the report suggests the job market is still doing pretty well.

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

We regret that there were those whose sole purpose was destruction, which coloured the currents outside these buildings.

Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.

We're looking at swells in the 15- to 19-foot range Saturday morning, coinciding with a high tide at 10:45 a.m. of seven feet. Stay away from the water. Surf that high may be pretty to look at, but rather difficult to predict. Breakers can unexpectedly wash over the beach and rocks. They create rip currents and beach erosion. It's not advisable to get terribly close.

Short term, there are various cross currents in the markets, and it will be hard to get a read on where prices will go this week. There apparently is still more firepower that funds have at their disposal to move markets even higher.

There is an increased chance of blackouts due to magnetic currents on the power grids. This also creates more hazards for astronauts traveling through space.

He didn't go very far. The currents there tend to pull you under and keep you there.

I think that the big problem with the IRS is that you have real rampant mismanagement of the agency, ... You have financial malfeasance, and it runs as currents throughout the agency from the top all the way down.

I think there are a lot of cross currents here and that's creating jitters.

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

You can feel the currents when you come in as you flow from the center to the bar area. You can see or be seen.

We've got so many cross currents competing right now, and we're in this trading range. And I think we're gonna have this volatile trading range for a while.

We have a lot of cross currents right now and so it's very difficult for investors to pick out the proper path. People like myself think that things are in fact slowing down some, that inflation is not a significant problem, and that while the Fed may tighten policy once in the next couple of months, they really probably don't need to.

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

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

Current among men, Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.

I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat and float along. But I soon found that I would have to go against the current.

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

We're trying to warn surfers that we have high surf and strong rip currents and they should use extreme caution.

We were notified of a drowning in the area. On arrival we searched for the teenager who we suspect was caught in rip currents and washed out to sea.

Current utility and historical origin are different subjects.

What amplifies the transformational power ahead is the confluence of two major technological currents today: the universal access to mobile computing and the pervasive use of social networks.

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

Each day is another adventure, ... We have complex cross currents working in an environment where we have a nasty and negative tone.

The scale of the organization astounds me. They had men carry kits with pieces 10 feet long and 8 to 12 inches thick across the desert to reassemble into ships on the edge of a sea that is still difficult to sail today. To have the manpower and supply line to equip the shipyard there and sail five or so ships on the Red Sea, and to have the knowledge to use the currents and winds to return safely, would be tough today, and they achieved it without GPS, cell phones or computers, not to mention the combustion engine.

It was these favorable Atlantic steering currents that caused so many of the major hurricanes that formed to come ashore.

Somewhere out there, beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door.

Rust spores can be carried by wind currents hundreds or even thousands of miles, even across oceans. They are eventually brought down to earth by rain, and a leaf that's been wet for several hours is needed in order for a spore to germinate and infect a plant.

Right now there are just too many cross currents out there to make people feel confident enough and start buying on this value.

The mood of the market is absolute nervousness and the mood of traders is absolute frustration. Because we're so oversold, I think we're ready for a trading bounce but there are just too many cross currents to balance right now.

This cycle has been repeating back to the Ice Age. It's related to changes in the ocean currents that move heat northward. If it's fast, we get a lot of hurricanes.

According to the dog's owner, they had been walking along the beach when Harriet ran into the river mouth to greet an approaching boat when she suddenly appeared overcome by the strong currents and was rapidly swept away into the sea.

It's said that it takes elements like this to remind us there are still dangerous currents out in the community.

That's even in effect a crap-shoot to some extent, because you're dealing with springs, currents and those sorts of things where you might have 6 inches of ice in one spot and you walk 20 feet, it'll be down to 2 inches,

In all warm-blooded creatures, which are the highest evolved and have feelings, passions and emotions, which reach outward into the world with desire, which may be said to really live in the fuller meaning of the term and not merely vegetate - in all such creatures, the currents of the desire body flow outward from the liver.

I'm not sure why it seems to happen more often in this area, but I'm sure there's a sure explanation for it. There just seems to be more of a collision of currents in this area.

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

Those are some strong currents you're swimming against.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

If she wasn't careful, she'd slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the current without a wimper of protest. Another housewife lost in the flow.

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

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