Currents Quotes
1207 quotes by 1032 authors
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Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart.
— Anne Rice
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Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary…
— Frances Mayes
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I think these younger Christians are the vanguard of some major new religious, social, and political arrangements that could make the older form of culture…
— Timothy Keller
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The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation; mankind's deep…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical…
— Daniel Dennett
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I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.
— Douglas Adams
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Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the…
— James A. Baldwin
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She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.
— Mohsin Hamid
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UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning opportunities that empower…
— Muhammad Yunus
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I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of gray ice, trying…
— James Salter
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Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but…
— Cassandra Clare
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Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel --…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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As a human, I am flawed in that it is difficult for me to consider others before myself. It feels like I have to fight…
— Donald Miller
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I felt a trembling along my skin, a treaveling current that moved up my spine, down my arms, pulsing out from my fingertips. I was…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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So this Zealot comes to my door, all glazed eyes and clean reproductive organs, asking me if I ever think about God. So I tell…
— Warren Ellis
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Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.
— John Kennedy Toole
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He stopped and looked at her. "Your eyes are leaking." "It's the flowers. They make me sneeze." "Then let us be away from the garden.…
— Lynn Kurland
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Please don’t let it be another cop. I’m outta bail money. Wait a minute…I could sell you on eBay and make a killing. (Mark) Not…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was…
— Charles Bukowski
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That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress it , collapse…
— Ahdaf Soueif
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