Tense Quotes

Everyone longs for love's tense joys and red delights.

The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace.

I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense as I think of them.

Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon.

Don't tense up no matter what, for you only close off creative power when you do.

My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.

Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk

Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future.

But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper. Write it in the present tense.

Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, "Life must be lived forward.

The silence of a shut park does not sound like country silence: it is tense and confined.

I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are not personally responsible for.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional.

Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city.

Memory is dramatic present tense. You create it as you remember it.

I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.

I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.

Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.

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.

A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.

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.

Past tense offers authority, distance, and present tense offers emotional immediacy.

Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.

The present tense made him nervous.

In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.

Because that was some mega tense awkwardness, a real 'Hello my name is Ever and I'll be your next stalker' kind of moment.

Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic.

It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.

I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can't stop it.

I don't watch scary movies. Sometimes, even having to read the script and do an episode of 'Grimm', I get a little tense because I know someone's going to jump out of somewhere.

The mood, it is fair to say, was reasonably tense. As a result of the conclusion of the ballot, most members are happy that this matter has now been determined.

People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.

Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense.

the old man dance, where I tense up, shuffle my feet intermittently, complain about the music volume, and sit down for a rest.

The nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous. [...] If you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it.

I fell in love at 14 and I remember that mad, tense feeling and all the mad things you do for the person - all those extremes and all the stuff you don't mind putting up with.

There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce.

I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.

I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time.

Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.

It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it's emotional, tense work. If you don't really love it, then it ain't worth it.

Another person tattooed my face on their calf. When they tense, the face moves! That is messed up.

Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur.

If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it’s like his nerves are a piece of rubber that has been stretched out. It’s hard to go back to the original shape.

My family gets incredibly tense and stressed out around traveling. There's something really beautiful in that vulnerability.

Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.

Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,' and I said, 'No. Not past tense.