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Love has no past tense. -- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The only pleasure of endurance is its past tense. -- Wes Fesler
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense. -- George Ade
Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense. -- Sarah Dessen
Through the eyes of the brave, the future makes past tense perfect sense. -- Auliq Ice
Having sex with a dead grammar teacher is a violation of past tense usage. -- Dana Gould
Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all. -- Ken Kesey
The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense. -- R. K. Milholland
"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body. -- Rajneesh
I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense. -- Casey Stengel
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
The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have. -- Rita Mae Brown
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. -- John Green
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
Sluka shook her head. "We're talking about them in the past tense, and we never even discussed them in the present. It's like their only reason for existing was so they could die. -- Alastair Reynolds
...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
This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud. I should have been with him; she should have left him alone. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense. -- Sarah Dessen
But why would it matter? We aren't ... or...uh...weren't ..." Which is it, Jess? "Aren't" or "weren't"? Present or past tense? Now or then? "We haven't been talking to each other." Past imperfect tense. How appropriate. -- Megan McCafferty
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. -- Margaret Atwood
Everything is beautiful. We have all this beauty in the world and all we have to do is reach out and touch it, it is all there and all ours for the taking." -- Cecilia to Henry Chinaski, liberty taken changing past tense to present tense (173) -- Charles Bukowski
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
When I'm writing, I can always play around with tense. I can always make past present. I can always kind of manipulate, and I can always be delusional in a way that's completely self-serving. With film, it's like, the camera can't really lie. It can manipulate to a certain extent. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are rooted in the future or the present tense as much as in the past. And home, we know, is not just the place where you happen to be born. It's the place where you become yourself. -- Pico Iyer
The past is always tense, the future perfect. -- Zadie Smith
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 must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future. -- William DeWitt Hyde

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