Top 1200 Current Events Quotes & Sayings

Is religion a force for good? The evidence of history and the evidence of current events cast doubt on the truism.

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe I'm attuned to current events.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.

By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don’t need to wait for our grandchildren’s questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

Memories contain hidden editorials on current events.

In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.

I've always wanted to do more significant stuff. I think of myself as well-informed, but the hardest thing to do is talk about politics and current events and be funny and not just preachy.

Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.

Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's desire to avoid confrontation with China.

You can think of individuals as differ­ent light bulbs. There will be a differences in wattage and in color. There will be differences in shape, but everywhere the current is the same. That current is who you are. You are not the individual bulb. You are the one current in all.

Magnetic current is the same as electric current. Current is [actually] the wrong expression. Really it is not one current, they are two currents, one current is composed of North Pole individual magnets in concentrated streams and the other is composed of South Pole individual magnets in concentrated streams, and they are are running one stream against the other stream in whirling, screwlike fashion, and with high speed.

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

The master does his job and then stops. He understands that the universe is forever out of control, and that trying to dominate events goes against the current of the Tao.

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.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.

Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography.

I'm not really a current events guy, sadly.

It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also fabricated pious fraud. Most believers in a religion understand this when examining the claims of other religions.

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.

By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don't need to wait for our grandchildren's questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.

Independent of the strength implications, baseball, like most athletic events, is a game of feeling capable of handling the current challenge.

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.

To dismiss the current extinction wave on the grounds that extinctions are normal events is like ignoring a genocidal massacre on the grounds that every human is bound to die at some time anyway.

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer

In the current scenario of climate change, predictions of extreme weather events are becoming difficult.

As the news agenda goes into warp speed, it becomes ever more difficult for authors writing about current events to keep their books timely and relevant.

[Footnote:]Each male has from 2 to 790 females with whom he discusses current events. Of these he marries from 3 to 17.

To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy

You cannot solve current problems with current thinking. Current problems are the result of current thinking.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

My themes are derived from current events, from familiar situations, from daily life, because I never actively intervene against the object, I can feel the magic of its presence.

I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.

We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events.

I'm like a decathlete who does all of the events he's used to, but is being forced by certain circumstances to focus on three events, and being forced to focus on events that he wasn't that interested in, and also weren't his strongest events.

There is something a little vulgar about writing a novel that is too close to the present, too concerned with current events, too eager to critique technological advancements.

That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated.

I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.

I'm fascinated about how past events shape our perception of current events and how they make us the people we are.

When I am working on a painting, everything that I am thinking about at the time - be it current events, the books I am reading, personal events, influences, emotions, etc. - all find their way into my work.

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events, and strong with their strength.

It's important to meet with the people who can shape future events, and who might be causing a current problem. And to ignore them means that the problem will continue.

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.

Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occurred. And thank goodness, we're not obliged to make assessments of what's going on now and deal with these current events.

The King struggles to work with other countries. It's a warrior's concern, and as current events [demonstrate], the challenges in working with international partners are very serious and far from comedic.

I've been trying to reassert myself as a human and not just a current events story. I should not be the face of online harassment.

I'm fascinated by current events and the privilege of trying to share it with other people and tell a story.

The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items.

If you look at photojournalism, it's largely driven by current events... always chasing a crisis or disaster. I follow a narrative that is much looser than current events.

Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.

To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events.

We're in the culture business. You are constantly monitoring cultural shifts, current events, shifts in mores, things that reflect society, and, at times, we try to drive it.