Top 1200 Present Tense Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

When i feel tense, I remember to relax all of the muscles and organs in my body

A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.

The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take my advice and stick to the present. It's the real stuff, the only stuff, it's all there is, the present, the panting present.

If you think negatively, it's hard to get out of tense moments.

From my youth, I'd never stopped thinking in the future tense.

A lot of the time I'm in the present, and I'm thinking about the past or scheming about the future and missing every present moment, instead of actually partaking of the sacrament of every present moment.

You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go.

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

It is very painful to talk about my dear friend Rishi Kapoor in 'past tense.'

Let's face it: the present self is present. It's in control. It's in power right now. It has these strong, heroic arms that can lift doughnuts into your mouth. And the future self is not even around. It's off in the future. It's weak. It doesn't even have a lawyer present.

History produces not only the forces of domination but also the forces of resistance that press up against and are often the objects of such domination. Which is another way of saying that history, the past, is larger than the present, and is the ever-growing and ongoing possibility of resistance to the present’s imposed values, the possibility of futures not unlike the present, futures that resist and transform what dominates the present.

Having sex with a dead grammar teacher is a violation of past tense usage.

'Rear Window' isn't really a horror film, but it is a psychological drama, which I love. It is very tense.

There are many moments during a match when you are tense, wrestling with yourself. Tennis is a lesson in self-control.

In the '60s, '70s and '80s, everybody was pretty tense on the set.

Awareness means that whatsoever is happening in the moment is happening with complete consciousness; you are present there. If you are present when anger is happening, anger cannot happen. It can happen only when you are fast asleep. When you are present, immediate, transformation starts in your being, because when you are present, aware, many things are simply not possible. All that is called sin is not possible if you are aware. So, in fact, there is only one sin and that is unawareness.

The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.

It's in the present that lies the secret: if you pay attention to the present you will be able to enhance it.

I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.

It's exciting being in the present. You're always reading emails, talking about the future, looking at pictures on Facebook of the past. But living in the present? It's almost a dead medium. I almost want to do a sketch about being in the present.

At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product.

Christ's own 'God-forsaken-ness' on the cross showed me where God is present where God had been present in those nights of deaths in the fire storms in Hamburg and where God would be present in my future whatever may come.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

I am the most tense, annoying person in the world.

Eddie became about one percent less tense.

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

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

If every song is in the past tense, that's a drag, so you have to predict the future.

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

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.

We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better.... or else we think about the future, about what we're going to do.... But at this precise moment, you also realize that you can change your future by bringing the past into the present. Past and future only exist in our mind. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.... It isn't what you did in the past the will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.

You've got a lifetime to mull over the Buddhist understanding of interconnectedness." He spoke every sentence as if he'd written it down, memorized it, and was now reciting it. "But while you were looking out the window, you missed the chance to explore the equally interesting Buddhist belief in being present for every facet of your daily life, of being truly present. Be present in this class. And then, when it's over, be present out there," he said, nodding toward the lake and beyond.' ~Dr. Hyde, pg 50

I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.

The present moment, though, is outside of time, it’s Eternity. In India they use the word “karma” for lack of any better term. But it’s a concept that’s rarely given a proper explanation. It isn’t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

Psychoanalysts are fond of pointing out that the past is alive in the present. But the future is alive in the present too. The future is not some place we’re going to, but an idea in our mind now. It is something we’re creating, that in turn creates us. The future is a fantasy that shapes our present.

Being a control freak makes us tense, stressed out, and unpleasant to be with.

It's so difficult to write in motion and get rid of the past tense, and also to create a sense of impermanence.

I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.

I had worked with many actors who were angry at times and often found them to be tense.

Nothing is Improbable until it moves into the Past Tense.

Holding on to anger only gives you tense muscles.

You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.

God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absent. If we do not know Him well, we do not realize that He may be more present to us when He is absent than when He is present.

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

When you don't flow freely with life in the present moment, it usually means that you're holding on to a past moment. It can be regret, sadness, hurt, fear, guilt, blame, anger, resentment, or sometimes even a desire for revenge. Each one of these states comes from a space of unforgiveness, a refusal to let go and come into the present moment. Only in the present moment can you create your future.

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

The Present is the womb of the future. A greater future happiness can be had only by investing in the present correctly. Look after the present and the future will look after itself.

She’s my wife. (Stryker) Was. You seem to have forgotten an important verb tense. (Zephyra)

We might realize that the present moment may be one of an eternal or sempiternal series of moments, all of which will resemble it because, in some ways, they are the present, and won't in other ways, because the present will be the past by that time.

To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin’s terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery.

One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one's reach, until it becomes present. Remembering the past and giving thought to the future are important, but only to the extent that they help one deal with the present.

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

Being nervous actually kept me very tense.

The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in, with a portion of chips... you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them.

In German, if a situation is tense, you say 'unter strom' - under electricity.

It's great when you can challenge yourself against the top players in tense situations. I've always enjoyed it.