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«Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy.»
«There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
current, elucidation, liable, maxim, right and wrong, standard, The Current
«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»
Author: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
(Painter)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
conveying, conveys, current, puts, seize, sweeps, sweep away, The Current, work of art, wrap
«There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
affairs, afloat, bound, clouds, current, flood, flood tide, folded, folding, fold up, man of affairs, miseries, omit, omits, omitted, omitting, shallows, The Clouds, The Current, The Flood, tide, voyage
«The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| About:
Change,
Ideas,
Law and lawyers,
Security
| Keywords:
adapting, and elsewhere, current, elsewhere, misguide, misguided, outlived, static, The Search, usefulness
«They had a profile of John Kerry on the news and they said his first wife was worth around $300 million and his second wife, his current wife, is worth around $700 million. So when John Kerry says he's going after the wealthy in this country, he's not just talking. He's doing it!»
«Of the five vital principles, Love is the foremost. It is Love that flows as the under-current for the other four values. How does it flow this way?»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
current, does, five, flow, flowed, flows, flow out, foremost, For the, four, fours, How does, on all fours, other, principles, take five, The Five, the Other, The Under, under, values, vital, vital principle
«On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Fashion
| Keywords:
current, rock, swim, The Current
«There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
affairs, current, flood, flooded, flooding, flood in, flood tide, fortune, leads, man of affairs, serves, The Current, The Flood, tide, ventures