Tense Quotes - page 5

My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense. (Trisha Yearwood)
I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel pressed and tense almost every day of my life about something or other. And I think it's the one thing, as I look into people's eyes, that I think I share with almost everybody. View quote
William Friedkin
The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense. View quote
Randy K. Milholland
A few months before the murder [of Domitian] a raven perched on the Capitol and croaked out the words: "All will be well!" – a portent which some wag explained in the following verse: There was a raven, strange to tell, Perched upon Jove's own gable, whence He tried to tell us "All is well!" – But had to use the future tense. View quote
Suetonius
I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense. View quote
Casey Stengel
I've always had that knack for staying pretty even keel and the more the situation gets tense the more I see things clearly and I think that's just a knack that I've always had. View quote
Tiger Woods
Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor
I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution. View quote
Yoko Ono
Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls. View quote
Michelle Obama
... the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect. View quote
Zadie Smith
A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, "I" do not hit, "it" hits all by itself. (Bruce Lee)
Musclemen grow on trees. They can tense their muscles and look good in a mirror. So what? I'm interested in practical strength that's going to help me run, jump, twist, punch. View quote
Jason Statham
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. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Remember? Ohh, I wouldn't do that! Remembering's dangerous. I find the past such a worrying, anxious place. "The past tense", I supposed you'd call it. Ha ha ha. View quote
Alan Moore
One must forget many clichés in order to behold a single image. Insight is the beginning of perceptions to come rather than the extension of perceptions gone by. Conventional seeing, operating as it does with patterns and coherences, is a way of seeing the present in the past tense. Insight is an attempt to think in the present. ... Insight is knowledge at first sight. View quote
Abraham Joshua Heschel
The demands of motherhood especially consume the old self, and replace it with something new, often better and wiser, sometimes wearier or disillusioned, or tense and terrified, certainly more self-knowing, but never the same again. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Like the wild beasts, she lives without a future. She inhabits only the present tense, a fugue of the continuous, a world of sensual immediacy as without hope as it is without despair. View quote
Angela Carter
With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear. View quote
Yo-Yo Ma
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature. View quote
Camille Paglia
But two or three days later I was talking about the whole thing in the past tense. View quote
Ram Dass
It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense. (Lee Child)
Many of us have developed an attitude' one of "we cannot bear to be insulted, and we do not want to create any tension." I always say that if serving the religion in a peaceful and calm manner is all that is demanded of us, then Allah would have accepted such service from His Messenger, peace be upon him, or would have accepted such peaceful service from the Esteemed Companions. But we see that Allah made them go through stages of hardship and tension too. Did not the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him, endure tense moments? He waged jihad too. His Holy blood was spilled. Even his blessed teeth were martyred. How many of us have even had a stone thrown at us?; we have adopted the attitude: "One of my routine should not be disturbed; I should keep to my routine." View quote
Abdul Rashid Ghazi
[mimics someone complaining about second hand smoke] Good theory. But guess what, if I don't smoke there's going to be secondary bullets coming your way, 'cause I'm that tense. View quote
Bill Hicks
My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms. View quote
Samuel Beckett
... 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. View quote
Mary Doria Russell