The Current Quotes

#1. I think what everybody believes and agrees with, and to be frank myself, is that the current approach [to the drug trade] is not working, but it is not clear what we should do.

Stephen Harper

#2. A secret for releasing struggles in life is to learn to yield. Yielding does not mean giving in or giving up. It just means moving with the flow of the current, which makes everything easier and more fluid.

Peggy Sealfon

#3. I had often stood on the banks of the Concord, watching the lapse of the current, an emblem of all progress, following the same law with the system, with time, and all that is madeand at last I resolved to launch myself on its bosom and float whither it would bear me.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. Will power is human electricity. You have enough of this electricity generated in you to achieve the greatest things in life if you would
keep the current on.

Elsie Lincoln Benedict

#5. Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

Victor Hugo

#6. Life is as the current spark on the miner's wheel of flints; While it spinneth, there is light; stop it, all is darkness.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#7. In the current climate motorists have a long list of issues from which to choose to raise on the doorstep. Policies aimed at reducing emissions - like the changes to Vehicle Excise Duty or here in Manchester the proposals for congestion charges - are not without controversy.

Lucy Powell

#8. An imagined landscape, then, is a landscape not of being but of becoming: a composition not of objects and surfaces but of movements and stillness, not there to be surveyed but cast in the current of time.

Tim Ingold

#9. The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified.

Ron Paul

#10. The simplest way to lose your soul is to go with the flow because the flow is naturally down. Only live fish can swim against the current. Dead ones just conform to it.

Anonymous

#11. Germans longed to be near shit, but not in it. This, as it turns out, is an excellent description of their role in the current financial crisis.

Michael Lewis

#12. Finally, Gunner spoke, his voice so fluid and moving, it could have come from the river itself. I once hear a poem about angling. It say when you send out your line, it is like you cast out your troubles to let the current carry them away. I keep casting.

Clare Vanderpool

#13. The most powerful call to action of anything that we've ever tested: Let's get to work.I didnt create that phrase. It came from Rick Scott, the current governor of Florida.

Frank Luntz

#14. What we are saying is that on top of the warming trend there is a long-periodic oscillation that will probably lead to a lower temperature increase than we would expect from the current trend during the next years.

Mojib Latif

#15. In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march ...

Martin Luther King Jr.

#16. Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.

Jane D. Hull

#17. The great thing about this town hall format is that it allows us to hear what's on the minds of Americans. Tonight, it was clear - voters have quite a few questions about the direction in which the current administration is headed.

Janet Napolitano

#18. It is impossible not to react to the current state of affairs through personal action and artistic production. We have been at war for three years. One desperately feels the need for someone to speak some sort of truth, either poetic or factual.

Casey Spooner

#19. Peter was the current someone she used to keep from relying on herself, the crutch to hold on to, to promise herself that if she only had him to love, she would have it all come together. Why did she keep throwing men up as smoke screens between herself and herself?

Barbara Howar

#20. My heart flutters a little. Or something inside my heart flutters; an artery worn so thin that a flap has come loose, is waving about, in the current of my blood.

Kate Morton

#21. A great deal of stupidity has chipped away at the massive advantages of Western civilization, which could terminally decline if it remains on the current path. But these problems can be solved - and swiftly - if the right leaders emerge.

Paul Singer

#22. Many critics of the Palestinians, especially those in Congress, think the current calm is merely the eye of the storm. That's why the House of Representatives approved a foreign aid package last week that forbade the direct financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority .

Suzanne Fields

#23. When the tides of life turn against you
And the current upsets your boat,
Don't waste those tears on what might have been,
Just lie on your back and float.

Edward Norton

#24. I am an optimist and I believe that together we shall be able now to make the right historical choice so as not to miss the great chance at the turn of centuries and millenia and make the current extremely difficult transition to a peaceful world order.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#25. The stones of a river start out rough, but with the current continually bumping and polishing them, they end up being beautiful.

Swami Satchidananda

#26. NASA should be at the forefront in the collection of scientific evidence and debunking the current hysteria over human-caused, or Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW). Unfortunately, it is becoming just another agency caught up in the politics of global warming, or worse, politicized science.

Walter Cunningham

#27. The current transgender movement is composed of a great number of factions, divided by those old favorites of class, race, age, language, region, and nationality.

Kate Bornstein

#28. I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain.

Meryl Streep

#29. It is not about whether you have free will, rather it is about whether you have enough experience to make the best possible wilful decision in the current moment of life.

Abhijit Naskar

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

Scott Rigell

#31. Remember that you cannot have what you want while clinging to what you do not want. Trust that you deserve rewarding events in your life that work. Either bring the current events into harmony with your vision, or make room for one that brings you joy.' ~ Unknown These

Alexa Keating

#32. Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.

Noam Chomsky

#33. But still we go on, he thinks with a sigh as he crosses his legs, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the police station and doctor's office.

Andrew Holleran

#34. And he misses her
Like a wind starved sail
He sits knowing what direction to go
But the current keeps pulling him
Down river.

Rumi

#35. No man can tell until he is moved by the Divine Spirit what he may do, or how he may change the current of a lifetime of fixed habits of thought and speech and action.

Charles M. Sheldon

#36. The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.

Ted Sarandos

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

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#38. Sin was like puzzle pieces floating on a river; once a few were placed together, the current pulled the outer edges apart and scattered the pieces away once again.

Ais

#39. I support health care reform in this country, but the current bills we have before us are too big, too costly, and the people who send me to Washington to be their voice are opposed to them and this process.

Mike Ross

#40. The current market ecosystem is not sustainable, and significant changes are coming one way or another,

John Ramsay

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

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#42. When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.

Carl Levin

#43. Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let go of the oars.

Esther Hicks

#44. He warps your perspective on the current events in your life until reality appears much worse and more desperate than it truly is.

Priscilla Shirer

#45. The President of Iran has called for the destruction of Israel and the West and has even denied the holocaust took place. Iran and its terrorist arm Hezbollah are responsible for the current conflicts between Israel and Lebanon.

Michael McCaul

#46. Things take care of themselves as long as you trust and don't try to control too much. Things will happen. Things tend to occur. Why resist what's inevitable? That's like swimming against the current, salmon notwithstanding. Go with the flow, you know? Glide with the glow, man. It's easier.

Tony Vigorito

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

Paul Krugman

#48. Page one of any economic plan to get America working is to give a pink slip to the current resident in the White House.

Rick Perry

#49. I am in the river now. I must have fallen. And I am in this river.
And I am just washed away
by the current of
the river.
This is not a river. It is just a small
rivulet.

Sandra Harner

#50. After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired.

Anatoly Karpov

#51. We need to transform
the current scientific worldview
into a modern metaphysical
worldview in order to survive
the exponential disruptive technologies
we are about to
unleash upon ourselves

Jonathan R. Banks

#52. The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#53. Basically I just had to say, Screw everyone around me - from now on I'm just gonna play what I think is important to me and our music. So I gave the big finger to all the current trends in technical wizardry, and just went off and did what I felt was best for the songs.

Kirk Hammett

#54. I like [that] there's a certain inherent drama to those jobs that is exciting to tell stories about and it's still real life. I'm a little less interested in the current fad of being obsessed with superheroes and things that are so out of the box.

Ethan Hawke

#55. Out of the current confusion of ideals and and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity.

Matthew B. Crawford

#56. Like so many of the current Chelsea team, Zola is unique.

Barry Venison

#57. In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language - the current crop of American poets necessarily give up on others.

Stephen Burt

#58. I study a lot of the greats; I study the current people out now and what people are listening to now. I don't shun anything away; I just check it all out and make my own judgment.

Ledisi

#59. Safer chemicals and more energy-efficient technologies can provide cooling without severe climate implications. Shifting to these alternatives could avoid the equivalent of 12 times the current annual carbon pollution of the United States by 2050.

Frances Beinecke

#60. In fact, even the current administration now is releasing recent reports indicating that climate change is real, that global warming is occurring, that it is heavily influenced by man-made objects and that it is something we cannot ignore any longer.

Ron Kind

#61. No mass appeal. Ergo no profit. Ergo no use. The current World Credo.

Lucille Kallen

#62. There's also a lot of random stuff about poetry, flowers and lute music, plus kissing and cuddling (lots of this), wearing similar outfits, talking incessantly about the current object of devotion, and generally losing one's faculties.

Joanne Harris

#63. CIA Director George Tenet briefed a Senate panel ... about the current situation in Iraq. He described how cash was being stolen and women were being assaulted with impunity. Senators love to attend these continuing education seminars.

Argus Hamilton

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

Ted Stevens

#65. There has been, and there will continue to be, vigorous discussions about race in America. I worry that little will come of these discussions because we aren't addressing what must be done to change the current racial climate.

Roxane Gay

#66. 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.

Curtis Armstrong

#67. If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?

Jim Rogers

#68. It is precisely those members of Congress who have had the most to do with creating the risks that led to the current economic crisis who are making the most noise against others, and summoning people before their committee to be browbeaten and humiliated on nationwide television.

Thomas Sowell

#69. Thus, the questions we should ask here are what makes the current economic upswing different from the past two recoveries, and whether such differences are sufficient for the economy to reach the sustained growth path.

Toshihiko Fukui

#70. On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

#71. Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.

Robert Hall

#72. An excellent but an eccentric man in whom the least little thing would, it seemed, often check the flow of his spirits and divert the current of his thoughts.

Marcel Proust

#73. The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

Neil Gaiman

#74. The current leader of the free world had pissed off enough other nations that they were gunning for him en masse.

Shannon Mayer

#75. The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.

Timothy Murphy

#76. I think that it's an arguable position, whether with Hamas and ISIS around, whether there should be a Palestinian state, but it's a defensible position, given the current circumstances.

David Brooks

#77. contact points are larger and instead of the current being led through the bearings as in an ordinary

Archie Frederick Collins

#78. Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

John Dewey

#79. In a perfect world the current laws would not apply.

Ben Marcus

#80. I say we scrap the current system and replace it with a system wherein you add your name to the bottom of a list, and then you send some money to the person at the top of the list, and then you ... Oh, wait, that is our current system.

Dave Barry

#81. The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged the delusion that candor, daring and shamelessness are substitutes for craft, that the exposed life is the same thing as an examined one.

Michiko Kakutani

#82. Nothing can help me but that beauty.
There was a dawn I remember
when my soul heard something from your soul.
I drank water from your spring
and felt the current take me.

Rumi

#83. But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current.

Paulo Coelho

#84. It takes no effort to love. The state has its own innate joy. Questions answer themselves if you are aware enough. Life is safe; flowing with the current of being is the simplest way to live. Resistance never really succeeds. Controlling the flow of life is impossible.

Deepak Chopra

#85. While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.

John Boehner

#86. As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the current book contains music from one tradition, it is music from another tradition that most relaxes me.

Vikram Seth

#87. Under the current system, all children under 17 are treated equally. However, while some films may be appropriate for older children to see with parental accompaniment, some are inappropriate for younger children under any circumstances. This problem needs to be addressed.

Rob Reiner

#88. The practice of mindfulness is nothing more than focusing on the current moment.

Debasish Mridha

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

Tony Robbins

#90. The simple act of trusting God can be defined as acting as if God were going to keep His promises, however bleak the current circumstances may appear.

Robert J. Morgan

#91. The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families.

Sherrod Brown

#92. Starke, release me or I'll kick you in the balls.
And that would hurt, given the current rock-hard state of that area.

Keri Arthur

#93. I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions ... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

Boris Yeltsin

#94. I kept an interested eye on the transfer window in England, which opened and closed last month, and the lack of frantic activity just goes to show the current financial state of the game right now.

David Ginola

#95. The choice is not between the current crisis and blissful isolation. The choice is between the current crisis and an orderly, managed system of mass migration. You can have one or the other. There is no easy middle ground

Patrick Kingsley

#96. The market made up new standards as it went along, by accepting the current price - however high - as the sole measure of value. Any idea of safety based on this uncritical approach was clearly illusory and replete with danger.

Benjamin Graham

#97. I don't think there's any heroism anymore. The heroism has to be created out of the medium itself. Going back to the idea of television, all the current heros are sports heros because the medium creates the heros. There's nothing essentially heroic about being a good pitcher.

Robert Ashley

#98. We shouldn't be debating whether to deal with the current code by allowing it to be extended or not. We should have a president who shows leadership and comes to Congress and says: 'You know what? We need to reform this whole tax code.'

Rob Portman

#99. If people want to change, they will. If they don't want to, it's hard to make them do so. The current interest in the environment is a good thing. The best way to make a contribution in fashion is to promote the idea that a fundamental interest in preserving the environment is itself fashionable.

Giorgio Armani

#100. Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper.

Jo Brand