Currents Quotes

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I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point. — Bill Watterson
Failure of government programs prompts more determined effort, while the loss of liberty is ignored or rationalized away...whether is it is the war on poverty,… — Ron Paul
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the… — Aldous Huxley
A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist… — C.S. Lewis
It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with… — George Orwell
Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up… — Robert Frost
We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. If… — Junot Diaz
No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's… — Haruki Murakami
Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium, a transmitter; living… — Henry Miller
Over your breasts of motionless current, over your legs of firmness and water, over the permanence and the pride of your naked hair I want… — Pablo Neruda
The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe… — Jorge Luis Borges
Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep… — Louis L'Amour
I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms and legs clutching… — Joyce Carol Oates
I used to think that I wouldn't change anything from my past, because doing so would inevitably affect who I am now. But considering my… — Megan McCafferty
We have each other, and our stories twist and mingle like the twisting currents of a river. We hold each other tight as we spin… — David Almond
That's what I like to call him, "the current president." I find it difficult to say or type his name, George W. Bush. I like… — Sarah Vowell
Maybe i would become a mermaid... i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed by sea anemones,… — Francesca Lia Block
Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight your way against… — Harlan Ellison

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