Current Quotes

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. (Marcus Aurelius)
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world. View quote
Euripides
In matters of style, swim with the current: in matters of principle, stand like a rock. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife. View quote
Arianna Huffington
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace! ... Current appreciation of my work is a bit "highbrow", I've always considered myself a popular artist. View quote
Maxfield Parrish
The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals. View quote
Gordon Moore
Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time. (Thomas Nagel)
My next-door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration. View quote
Gary Johnson
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. View quote
Brian Tracy
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. View quote
John Locke
In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the "cancer" that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property. View quote
Maurice Allais
Advice n. the smallest current coin. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new. View quote
Alexander Smith
So we beat on, boats agains the current. Borne back ceaselessly into the past. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work. View quote
Fred Saberhagen
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. (Denis Waitley)
As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting. View quote
Brian Ferneyhough
I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics. View quote
Derek Bailey
I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them. View quote
Diane Wakoski
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. View quote
Isaac Mayer Wise