Currents Quotes
1207 quotes by 1032 authors
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Ask Me Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life.…
— William Stafford
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...a river season will last as long as it takes you to reach your new place. If you get into the river and let it…
— Andrew Kaufman
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Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile assumption that the…
— Neal Stephenson
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You were loved because God loves, period. God loved you, and everyone, not because you believed in certain things, but because you were a mess,…
— Anne Lamott
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Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right…
— H. L. Mencken
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I always thought that life was about standing your ground, no matter how strong the current was. But going with the flow isn't so bad…
— Ai Yazawa
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Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.
— Will Eisner
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emotion clouds the rational, and many perspectives guide the full reality. To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even…
— R A Salvatore
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It seemed as if some subtle current of recognition had passed between them... not as if they had met before... but as if they had…
— Lisa Kleypas
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It drops us into a vigorous current, a constant state of misguided control. The doomed generation takes a final step forward, ignoring all the signs…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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If she wasn't careful, she'd slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the current without a…
— Kristin Hannah
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Music burst through him, perfect notes he hear rarely. Fire and ice, wind and calm, sky and earth, water and rock all fused together. Joley…
— Christine Feehan
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A pretty face had been damaged by acne scars and she wore and extra forty pounds on her frame like a threat. Her eyes were…
— Dennis Lehane
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In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
— Roberto Bolano
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He ought to buy her a new dress. She would never accept it, of course, but maybe if her current garments were accidentally burned... ...But…
— Julia Quinn
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Whoa, Dimitri," I said, tossing my bag on the floor. "I realize this is actually a current hit in Eastern Europe right now, but do…
— Richelle Mead
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Swathed in silk, I feel like a caterpillar in a cocoon awaiting metamorphosis. I always supposed that to be a peaceful condition. At first it…
— Suzanne Collins
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I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
— Nadine Gordimer
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There's a meeting in Command. Disregard your current schedule,' he says. 'Done,' I say. 'Did you follow it at all today?' he asks in exasperation.…
— Suzanne Collins
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You're not honey. Your'e wine. You're the deepest, darkest shadow under a tree on a blazing day. You're strong and hard, coursing like a current…
— Cate Tiernan
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