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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain. -- James Russell Lowell
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense. -- George Ade
I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored. -- Catherine Deneuve
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all. -- Ken Kesey
The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in, with a portion of chips... you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them. -- Sid Waddell
Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now. -- Alex Rodriguez
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. -- Joan Lunden
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. -- Michelle Obama
Politics is history in the present tense. -- John Avlon
The past is always tense, the future perfect. -- Zadie Smith
You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense. -- Jane Pauley
People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective. -- Diane Sawyer
Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense. -- Sam Snead
Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. -- Bruce Lee
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature. -- Camille Paglia
A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological! -- Hans Magnus Enzensberger
If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead. -- Erich von Stroheim
Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But i dont agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time" * -- George Balanchine
You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. It doesn't matter what. In five or ten minutes, the imagination will heat, the tightness will fade, and a certain spirit and rhythm will take over. -- Leonard Bernstein
We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry. A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, narrow, or controlling orthodoxies of so much of Christian history, doesn't take itself too seriously. It is humble. It doesn't claim too much. It admits it walks with a limp. -- Brian D. McLaren
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. -- Samuel Beckett
Tense and nervous are not the words, though they are the words -- Chris Kamara
The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard - one that thinks too much. -- Benjamin Hoff
As a driver I have come to believe that the person just in front of me and the person just behind me are always just about to do something really stupid. Tense is not the right word, but I am very hyper-aware of such things. -- Jonathan Meades
You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense. -- Jane Pauley
I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense. -- Martha Beck
You have to relax when you're shooting an arrow. You can't be tense. And that just helps, in your day-to-day life. -- Stephen Amell
Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister. -- Sonia Sotomayor
With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear. -- Yo-Yo Ma
I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is. -- Douglas Coupland
In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense. -- Kevin Systrom
A great free joy surges through me when I work... with tense slashes and a few thrusts the beautiful white fields receive their color and the work is finished in a few minutes. -- Clyfford Still
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. -- Yoko Ono
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
Gay rights is just one of the social issues I'm interested in. I think that people might be less tense about it if we would all accept the fact that not everyone is wired the same way. -- Charlaine Harris
No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting. -- Emily Oster
I had an older brother, an older sister and a younger brother, and though I look back fondly on my childhood, I think that when you've got four siblings sharing the same resources and a single kids' bathroom, it's going to get a little tense at times. -- Jeff Kinney
A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno. -- Italo Calvino
Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing. -- Hope Davis
You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that. -- Christine Lagarde
The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to know that there is a bomb on the bus that might blow up, and then it becomes very tense - but if you don't know that there's a bomb and it just blows up, then it's just a surprise. -- Gus Van Sant
I love you present tense. -- John Green
Love has no past tense. -- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The present tense made him nervous. -- William Gibson
My last defense / Is the present tense. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
Confidence is the present tense of hope. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Being nervous actually kept me very tense. -- Kate Bush
Eddie became about one percent less tense. -- Richelle Mead
Im not tense, just terribly, terribly alert." Nick -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Tea is soothing. I wish to be tense. -- Rupert Giles
When Martina is tense it helps her relax. -- Dan Maskell
Excellence is my presence. Never tense, never hesitant. -- The Notorious B.I.G.
Graham's life is as tense as an overstretched simile. -- Zane Stumpo
Everyone longs for love's tense joys and red delights. -- Jane Kenyon
With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense. -- Kevin Systrom
The only pleasure of endurance is its past tense. -- Wes Fesler
Holding on to anger only gives you tense muscles. -- Joan Lunden
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A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. -- Bruce Lee
In the realm of faith, there is no future tense -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense. -- Sarah Dessen
A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense. -- V. S. Pritchett
I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work. -- Matthew William Goode
Memory is dramatic present tense. You create it as you remember it. -- Allen Wier
Through the eyes of the brave, the future makes past tense perfect sense. -- Auliq Ice
Being a control freak makes us tense, stressed out, and unpleasant to be with. -- Judith Orloff
The body is consuming energy when tense, and restoring energy when it is relaxed. -- Ronnie Lott
Human existence basically isâ??â??a never to be completed imperfect tense. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense. -- David Foster Wallace
To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. -- Pearl Bailey
Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense. -- Tom Hooper
Having sex with a dead grammar teacher is a violation of past tense usage. -- Dana Gould
The past, the present, and the future walked into a bar. It was tense. -- Lex Martin
The past, the present, and the future walked into a bar. It was tense. -- Lex Martin
We tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense. -- Dennis Potter
A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense. -- Joshua Foer
Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure. -- David Deida
She's my wife. (Stryker) Was. You seem to have forgotten an important verb tense. (Zephyra) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger. -- Adrienne Rich
Don't tense up no matter what, for you only close off creative power when you do. -- Norman Vincent Peale
It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense. -- Lee Child
Inject laughter into tense situations to save the day; laughter calms tempers and soothes jangled nerves. -- Wilferd Peterson
My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition. -- Michael Pollan
Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed -- Brian Tracy
My family gets incredibly tense and stressed out around traveling. There's something really beautiful in that vulnerability. -- Jill Soloway
Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE -- Tristan Tzara
Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment. -- Mark Steyn
We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back. -- Bethenny Frankel
When i feel tense, I remember to relax all of the muscles and organs in my body -- Louise Hay
The silence of a shut park does not sound like the country silence; it is tense and confined. -- Elizabeth Bowen
Another person tattooed my face on their calf. When they tense, the face moves! That is messed up. -- Gordon Ramsay
You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go. -- Joy Bryant
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
Marriage is like a tense, unfunny version of Everybody Loves Raymond, only it doesn't last 22 minutes. It lasts forever. -- Paul Rudd
Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense. -- Dennis Crowley
Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future. -- William DeWitt Hyde
There are many moments during a match when you are tense, wrestling with yourself. Tennis is a lesson in self-control. -- Rafael Nadal
The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense. -- R. K. Milholland
Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon. -- Norman Vincent Peale
I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense. -- Ed Weeks
From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge. -- Joseph Boyden
Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense. -- Seamus Heaney
Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off. -- Mary Douglas
Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated. -- David Deida
Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well. -- Joe Bradley
Perspective-changing events can have many parts. One part can be a tense, laughter-filled promise. Another part can have no laughter at all. -- Andrea Goeglein
Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense. -- Siri Hustvedt
What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper. Write it in the present tense. -- Bob Proctor
Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality. -- C. J. Cherryh
There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
the old man dance, where I tense up, shuffle my feet intermittently, complain about the music volume, and sit down for a rest. -- David Thorne
Because that was some mega tense awkwardness, a real 'Hello my name is Ever and I'll be your next stalker' kind of moment... -- Alyson Noel
"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body. -- Rajneesh
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. -- Colin Quinn
The nowness of everything is absolutely wonderful.... If you see the present tense, boy do you see it, and boy can you celebrate it. -- Dennis Potter
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. -- Samantha Bond
When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense. -- Deborah Levy

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