Best Currents Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 22

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: A New Edition in Twelve Volumes, to which is Prefixed, an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq. Containing Adventurer and Rasselas

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”

Men World Made Hands White Mystery Becoming Mountain Standing Flow All Things Destruction Patterns Edges Currents Streams Maps Brooks Polished Moss Mazes Amber Trout Road Maps Fins Wonder And Mystery

Book:The Road

Source: The Road

“To reach out to you when I'm in need, and to try to be here for you when you need me back. And to feel such tenderness when I look at you that I want to stand between you and all the world: and yet also to lift you up and carry you above the strong currents of life; and at the same time, I would be glad to stand always like this, at a distance, watching you, the beauty of you.”

World Want Needs Feels Trying Looks Would Be Strong Distance Currents Glad Lifts Reach Out Tenderness Lift You Up

Book:The Ender Quintet

Source: The Ender Quintet

“But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current.”

Ifs Love Whole Able Form Force Water Love Is Structure Currents Tiny Cracks Dams

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.”

Soul Powerful Universal Instinct Currents Intuition Coaching Alchemist Immersion Alchemist Love Alchemist Book Personal Legend

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press, knows that on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper.”

Knows Whole Use Political Values Reading Pleasure Particular Huge Amount Paper Judgment Presses Currents Articles Bias Editorials Insert Pleasure Of Reading

Author:Jo Brand

“It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions. Actually, I find the atmosphere of this room rather comforting. Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs. You may remember that Mark Twain preferred to lie supinely in bed while composing those rather dated and boring efforts which contemporary scholars try to prove meaningful. Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.”

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

“History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.”

Needs Values Order Fiction Events Prejudice Currents Versions

Author:Bill Watterson

“...all that is carried along by the stream's silvery cascade, rhythmically falling from the mountain, carried by its own current-- carried where?”

Fall Mountain Currents Streams Cascade

Author:Pope John Paul II

“What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.”

Ifs Has Beens Seems Moving Given Challenges Circumstances Lucky Currents Stuck Giants Finding Yourself Cracks Rescue No Hope Lucky You Boulders Hitchhikers Guide

Book:The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts

Source: The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts

“All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.”

Firsts Challenges Progress Conditions Institutions Currents Positive Atheism Conception Censorship Free Speech Removal Censoring Book Banning Progress In Life Supplanting

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.”

Thinking Stories Hate I Hate Currents Someday No Point

Author: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, drugs, terrorism...or the current Hitler of the day, an appeal to patriotism is used to convince the people that a little sacrifice of liberty, here or there, is a small price to pay...The results, though, are frightening and will soon become even more so.”