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Quotes About Current

It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.
~ Evelyn Waugh
I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. -Loving Frank
~ Nancy Horan
There are countries that are near ours which are in the situation which we all know. I want to say that this is not the case of Spain now and it will not be in the future.
~ Mariano Rajoy
People want to see realism in action now.
~ Akshay Kumar
News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper.
~ Arthur Christiansen
I just want to sleep, and eat, and learn about what's going on in the world.
~ Debra Winger
Obviously, if Congress wants to talk about anything, we're happy to provide information. We're committed to moving forward under the current act.
~ Barack Obama
Kids won't watch older movies - they want to see what's hip right now.
~ Billy Bob Thornton
I don't care about lasting. I just want right now.
~ Caitlin Kittredge
Extraordinary, how single lives just fold into the whole mess, over and over again, all caught up in the greater swirl. Spinning round and round, and ever downward, it seems. Ever downward. Fools, all of us, to think we can swim clear of that current.
~ Steven Erikson
The weight of the weapon would defy the current – that was the important thing, the way it would refuse to be carried along. Some things could do that. Some things possessed the necessary weight to acquire a will of their own.
~ Steven Erikson
Il giornalismo è l'arte di arrivare troppo tardi il più in fretta possibile.
~ Stig Dagerman
The current of emotion, which was formerly directed to gaining eternal bliss, is turned in socialism - in the same degree as the latter is permeated by evolutionism - towards the perfecting of earthly life.
~ Ellen Key
We're in the culture business. You are constantly monitoring cultural shifts, current events, shifts in mores, things that reflect society, and, at times, we try to drive it.
~ Kevin Reilly
It will not be possible to solve the current crisis with euro bonds.
~ Angela Merkel
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
I think there's a preoccupation with the American market to make excuses and justify its past. If it isn't current, it means somebody has to make an excuse for it. If it's 'cult,' it gives it a sense of illegitimate legitimacy.
~ Leon Redbone
Like a hidden grieving that rises to grab the heart, his soul was ambushed with old emotions, and his lips began to tremble and he was swept into the current of all that he had lost.
~ Mitch Albom
Finding new ways to privatize the commons and profit from disaster is what our current system is built to do; left to its own devices, it is capable of nothing else.
~ Naomi Klein
And then finally the magic flowed, but not the same way as when the Dragon's spell-lessons dragged it in a rush out of me. Instead it seemed to me the sound of the chanting became a stream made to carry magic along, and I was standing by the water's edge with a pitcher that never ran dry, pouring a thin silver line into the rushing current.
~ Naomi Novik
All a man has in the world is the now, the day and the hour where he is, because tomorrow is an entirely different world.
~ Chaim Potok
I do not like Melbourne in its present state.
~ William John Wills
she, and Clare also, stood as yet on the debatable land between predilection and love; where no profundities have been reached; no reflections have set in, awkwardly inquiring, 'Whither does this new current tend to carry me? What does it mean to my future? How does it stand towards my past?
~ Thomas Hardy