Top 434 Current Quotes

The Constitution that I interpret and apply is not living, but dead, or as I prefer to call it, enduring. It means, today, not what current society, much less the court, thinks it ought to mean, but what it meant when it was adopted.
Antonin Scalia
I don’t know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.
Robert Winston
I’ve got a lot of respect for a handful of coaches, and there’s a lot of great stuff put out there on film. So, I always want to stay up to speed on those current trends and figure out if you can steal something that fits your players and your system. I’m certainly not afraid to steal from some of these great coaches.
Sean McVay
A sense of electrical current was part of my own experience of being manic. The sensation that my mind was spinning and overheating would sometimes build to a sensation like an electrical short – a burst of light, a melting, or dissipating – and I’d get a metallic taste in my mouth, like when you lick a battery.
Ellen Forney
What I don’t like is when people don’t like the establishment, they don’t like the current government, they combat that by saying ‘I don’t like politics.’ Go out, have your say, vote against the government. It’s the most important thing.
Georgia Toffolo
We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and… it’s in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we’re seeing the current manifestations of.
Thomas P. Campbell
If you’re an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.
Guy Kawasaki
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
U.S. companies need clear guidelines on when they have to turn over electronic communications to law enforcement if that information is stored abroad. The current uncertainty harms U.S. businesses and their customers and does not well-serve our foreign relationships.
Suzan DelBene
Given the current state of publishing, I think it helps to have a brand name on the cover of your book. Comedians are proven commodities with built-in audiences. They may not have the writing chops of a Dave Eggers, but they’re salacious and funny and self-reflective.
Michael Showalter
If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?
Jim Rogers
I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection is to be incredibly good at what you do and keep good discipline in class.
Jonathan Kozol
I think people enjoyed LA Law so much, because it was the first show that delved into current events through the prism of the law.
Harry Hamlin
A person’s current personality of love, hatred, jealousy, rage or a murderous intent and so on is formed upon genetic elements, education, the environment and a family a person grows in.
Kim Ki-duk
‘Hum Paanch’ never lost its magic unlike some of the current shows, which go off air because they lose fizz. Even after running for almost 10 years, the show went off air only because the makers decided to end it.
Ashok Saraf
If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what’s happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.
Wanda Sykes
The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one’s contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
Angela Davis
My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self.
Henry Laurens
Really study what types of formats have been working online that you resonate with: get a feel for what works in the current ecosystem of online video. Sometimes, that passion-project you really want to do is not the way to start.
Benny Fine
I’m not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.
Derek Bailey
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce a surplus for upgrading its productive powers.
Robert Trout
I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.
Irene Rosenfeld
I resisted Twitter for a long time. To me, it was synonymous with networking, which in my mind means unceasing self-promotion and superficial small-talk with strangers. A little like wading into a river with a raging current – and I’m a terrible swimmer.
Celeste Ng
The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.
Gordon Moore
In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really

In my case, I write in the past because I’m not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
Patrick O’Brian
Rap evolves and to still be current you have to evolve with it! Get in front or get left behind.
E-40
Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer.
Jon Porter
Never allow other people to classify you based on your past and current circumstances, where you were born, your experiences, your gender, or your race.
Clemantine Wamariya
If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.
Jay Inslee
I think the influence of contemporary feminism has been very unhelpful to the current generation of girls. They are constantly being encouraged to speak out about how they feel victimised.
Claire Fox
I think Apple Watch might be a tougher sell to current watch wearers than non-watch wearers. Non-watch wearers have an open wrist, and if they cared about the glance-able convenience of an always-visible watch dial, they would be wearing a traditional watch already.
John Gruber
What Americans desperately need is a way to transition from the current system – which is fragmented and focuses on high-cost, high-tech interventions after illness strikes – to a modern system that delivers coordinated, high-touch, lower-cost, patient-centered care with an emphasis on primary care and prevention.
Matthew Heineman
I really enjoy what I do. And if you want a lasting career, you have to work at it. Keep it current. Keep it fresh.
Engelbert Humperdinck
The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe’s current institutional infrastructure.
Ivan Krastev
Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime of violence or a drug trafficking offense. They simply come under the same penalty as we have in current law.
John Shadegg
Israel’s relations with the United States are a cornerstone, and without them, we cannot make our way in the current global climate.
Avigdor Lieberman
I’m not trying to sound mean spirited, but I honestly don’t know of many successful musicians who get that excited about other current artists’ music. You’re either a music fan, or you’re a working musician.
Mark Kozelek
I can enjoy what I’m engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.
Iman
To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.
Johannes P. Muller
I really have to make sure that I’m staying true to who I am, and that I know my responsibilities to current N.B.A. players, to future N.B.A. players, to our past and retired N.B.A. Players.
Derek Fisher
You can tax the rich to pay for current spending. You can even tax them very heavily. But when the rich look forward for decades and see nothing but increasing taxes, debts, and government control of their businesses and assets – they will leave.
Porter Stansberry
To me, the real ‘state of the union’ is found in how Americans react to current events.
Henry Rollins
We do recognise that there are areas where the current financial services market, the banking market, just isn’t working for chunks of the British economy.
Vince Cable
The current constitutional law places the president of the republic in an embarrassing situation.
Jose Eduardo dos Santos
I grew up in Nagpur, and I first started enjoying the author Harishankar Parsai. He wrote mostly satire, essays on the current situation and social issues. He wrote many books and I think he was my first influence.
Rajkumar Hirani
The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.
Will McDonough
I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessarily good for us. We could recognise universal propensities which current cultures can’t fully eradicate, which we would want to eradicate if we could. Let’s say, a tendency for tribal violence. Or racism.
Sam Harris
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
Jefferson Davis
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.
Jo Brand