Tense Quotes
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America has become so tense and nervous it has been years since I have seen anyone sleep in church - and that is a sad situation.
Norman Vincent Peale -
Confidence is the present tense of hope.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Sometimes you have to speak in the future perfect tense, knowing you will not win.
Antanas Mockus -
I work as a dancer, but I also work as a choreographer with couples that have a lot of tension between them, and as dancer and as a choreographer, being in this situation is very difficult. You see the energy doesn't flow, and it's very tense.
Blanca Li -
Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed
Brian Tracy -
In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether it is like the faces of healthy people, and especially whether it is like its usual self. Such likeness will be the best sign, and the greatest unlikeness will be the most dangerous sign. The latter will be as follows. Nose sharp, eyes hollow, temples sunken, ears cold and contracted with their lobes turned outwards, the skin about the face hard and tense and parched, the colour of the face as a whole being yellow or black.
Hippocrates -
A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.
Joshua Foer
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...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.
Mary Doria Russell -
Childhood is a tissue of lies that endure in the past tense.
Elena Ferrante -
When Martina is tense it helps her relax.
Dan Maskell -
I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional.
Stephen Covey -
Memory is dramatic present tense. You create it as you remember it.
Allen Wier
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I think it doesn't matter what type of helmet you wear. If you don't know the hit is coming your body is not going to tense up and get ready for impact.
DeMarcus Ware -
Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future.
William DeWitt Hyde -
The present tense made him nervous.
William Gibson -
The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in, with a portion of chips... you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them.
Sid Waddell -
We were the daughters of the post-World War II American dream, the daughters of those idealized fifties sitcom families in which father knew best and mother knew her place and a kind of disappointment, and tense, unspoken sexuality rattled around like ice cubes in their nightly cocktails.
Anne Fleming -
One of my personal indulgences is getting a weekly massage - it helps to re-align my body. I usually feel so much less tense after I've gotten rid of some knots in my shoulders and back.
Noureen DeWulf