Quotes About Current

What is there at each moment is 'structural truth,' connected to perspective, to centering, to structurimg. Of course other ways of structuring are possinle, formalizations, from which it results that the current way of structuring is surpassed, that the current way of structuring looks to be a particular case.

I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.

To think the welfare and the goodness of the next generations is indeed a good ethics, but there is much greater ethics than this: To think the welfare and the goodness of the current generations, the very people of now! The reason is simple: Future may not exist, it is only a possibility, but the people of now are not possibility, they are here!

Today is the best day for anything and for everything! It is the only door you have; it is the only key you have!

Veja você, meu sobrinho: um boi. Dentro de água, um boi será que nada? Não, ele apenas se perguiça na corrente. A esperteza do boi é levar a água a trabalhar na viagem dele.

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

Still, what's happened before and what may happen later can't be as important as what's happening now.

Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events

I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out.

I was with it Jim, really with it.

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

It must be recognized that an ideology is always out of phase with the situation in which it is employed, for an ideology has always emerged as a response to a preceding situation, the attributes of which are different from the current situation.

When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you see wires. Until the current passes through them, there will be no light. That wire is you and me. The current is God. We have the power to let the current pass through us, use us, to produce the light of the world, Jesus, in us. Or we can refuse to be used and allow darkness to spread.

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

One of the great New Testament words is Now. That was then, this is now.

We are electrical. The power travels within us as it does in nature.

For a man like Bar-Avo, everything is a constant present.

I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.

True love isn't a fleeting thing; contrarily, it is a current of water that replenishes effortlessly, as its inherent, underlying duty is to do just that. Like truth, love shall set you free.

The music was sinuous, insistent. She was moving with it again, swaying silver like a sleeping fish in its current.

L'homme, dans l'état actuel de la société, me paraît plus corrompu par sa raison que par ses passions. Ses passions (j'entendes ici celles qui appartiennent à l'homme primitif) ont conservé, dans l'ordre social, le peu de nature qu'on y retrouve encore.

What, then is our duty It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.

Standing there on the embankment, staring into the current, I realized that – in spite of all the risks involved – a thing in motion will always be better than a thing at rest; that change will always be a nobler thing than permanence; that that which is static will degenerate and decay, turn to ash, while that which is in motion is able to last for all eternity.