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"He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success." »Albert Pike
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"All censorships exist to prevent any one 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 censorships." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone." »Ayn Rand
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"If you know the North, you know where the south is; if you know the darkness, you know where the light is! Evil is an excellent compass for the good!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"West is too materialist; East is too spiritual; North is too cold; south is too loose!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I am part of the sea and stars And the winds of the south and North Of mountains and Moon and Mars, And the ages sent me forth" »Edward H. S. Terry
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"If you know the North, you know where the south is; if you know the darkness, you know where the light is! Evil is an excellent compass to find the good!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the south, for I would free them all to avoid this war." »Robert E. Lee
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"Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot." »Mitchell Burgess
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"In the south of California has gathered the larges and most miscellaneous assortment of Messiahs, Sorcerers, Saints and Seers known to the history of aberrations." »Farnsworth Crowder
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"Relative calm is expected in south Central Los Angeles for the next several weeks, as looters stay home and try to program their new VCRs." »Weekend Update
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"I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of south Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating." »Alan Stewart Paton
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"The people of the south have rejected the constitutional amendment, and therefore we will march upon them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet, and establish military power over them until they do adopt it." »John Whitehead
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"There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse." »John Locke
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"The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life." »C. H. Cooley
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"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." »Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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"Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world." »Euripides
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"You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true (South Pacific)" »Oscar Hammerstein, II
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"Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life." »Johann von Goethe
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"In the south where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate." »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
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"Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves to the current view of the world and consecrate it." »John Dewey
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"Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it." »John Dewey
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"Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried, unresisting, with the current. They float through easy days. They live, unquestioning, in the moment." »Christopher Darlington Morley
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"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created." »Brenda Ueland
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"The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition." »Richard Clark
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"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." »Thomas Jefferson
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"In matters of style, swim with the current in matters of principle, stand like a rock." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of south Vietnam by North Vietnam." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion." »Auguste Renoir
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"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation." »Brian Tracy
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