My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
This current government in Iraq has never fulfilled the commitments it made to form a unity government with the Kurds, the Sunnis and the Shia. We have worked hard with them within the confines of our ability to do that but we can't dictate to them.
Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners.
Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless.
Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones
Memories contain hidden editorials on current events.
Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either.
There are few in America that really know how to take advantage of the current health care system.
No mass appeal. Ergo no profit. Ergo no use. The current World Credo.
Commitment to the truth. . . means a relentless willingness to root out the ways we limit or deceive ourselves from seeing what is, and to continually challenge our theories of why things are the way they are. It means continually broadening our awareness. It also means continually deepening our understanding of the structures underlying current events.
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 after all. As long as it takes you forward.
Will power is human electricity. You have enough of this electricity generated in you to achieve the greatest things in life if you would keep the current on.
You get much more heat when you do something current.
Globilization in its current form cannot deliver the benefits expected of it. Civil society, particularly in developing countries, must ensure that it does.
I would have conversations with European artists. Meaning, people look at my painting and one person would say, "Oh, your painting is just like so-and-so!" Another person would say, "It's just like so-and-so. " But at the end, it's a chain of relay like a marathon. There are so many so-and-so's that eventually it becomes mine. My dialogue was completely European, with the '40s, '50s, '60s artists, but on the exterior side I do big painting. It's post-Pollock. It's current. It's a meeting of the time. The Chinese side just comes out.
Our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to make it right for the people they have harmed. [. . . ] Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night.
ISIS is a terrorist entity whose barbarities have been condemned by all those who value our common humanity. In the current political climate, when hate crimes are rising and political rhetoric is increasingly divisive, this is all the more shocking.
I think the worst mistake you can make in stocks is to buy or sell based on current headlines.
Tayyip Erdoğan is megalomaniac President, he is not stable. He lives during the Ottoman era, he doesn't live in the current time. He's out of touch with the reality.
I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.