Top 1200 Present Tense Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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.

Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.

Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere.

You can't really live in the past because the present is always present.

Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it.

Attention-yes! That's present! And present, you see, makes past and future.

We think we’re in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do.

I've learned to relax and be my present age and my present position. I feel comfortable on my mid-thirties. It doesn't seem such an alien place to be.

If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.

It's not as if I never used to get under pressure. That is nonsense. It's just that my looks gave an appearance, and people didn't think I was tense.

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

The past, as you suggest, is absolutely present at all times and the present is born from the past. I wouldn't want to suggest that the past determines the present.

I carry tension in my shoulders, and I fell in love with yoga because it stretches the muscles that have become tense as a result of stress.

In Berlin... it's important to present a concert that will change their ears... so if you present a Tchaikovsky symphony, you get almost no audience.

Be present in your work because kids live in the moment, so as soon as you're not in the present, you're not being authentic.

In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

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.

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

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

You are never quite sure how it will go, and even after a thousand games or so, that tense feeling is still there.

Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.

The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.

I'm ready to live in the present - not the past and not in the future - because in the present is where there's peace.

I like to see the present, to work for the present, and to try to improve for the future.

Anyway, when I get sorta tense and start thinking about every shot, that's when my game falls apart.

Living in the present moment requires discretion toward memory. Without memory we'd have amnesia. What good would there be in that? Offer discretion and discernment for our past with a broad spectrum of forgiveness. As for our present moment, delight. And dedication to remain fully present to all the possibility.

Life passes us by if all we do is focus on the future. Being present, for the present, is really what is important.

America has become so tense and nervous it has been years since I have seen anyone sleep in church - and that is a sad situation.

To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.

Live in the present moment. The past and future are nonexistent. Only the present can be grasped or, better, embraced.

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

I want to be present for my kids, and my biological father wasn't present for me.

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.

You cannot be present in an abstract way. Presence is not about disappearing into nothingness. You can only be present with something that is actually here.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

I try, in the present, to not exalt the past because I think that's such a way of diminishing the present. And it's hard to live like that.

Musical chairs or Russian roulette? Sometimes there's as much tense drama in the casting of a Hollywood movie as there is in the finished product.

Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.

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

The place where...knowledge occurs is the present. That which recognizes the present is mind.

For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present.

Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

I just live my life and try to be present. When I'm present in the moment and something comes, I can capture it, because it doesn't come from me, it's out there.

I am in the present and only the present matters to me

The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.

The best way to learn to be present and develop presence is to have the experience of someone you respect and admire being present with and for you.

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.

It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now. When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies. We are seeing what is before us.

The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present. Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love - or any other experience - must take place in the present.

Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.

We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.

The best coaches have strong charisma to motivate the whole team while managing the relationship with the media, which can be tense.

I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.

I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.