Top 416 Tense Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
My family gets incredibly tense and stressed out around traveling. There's something really beautiful in that vulnerability.
It's great when you can challenge yourself against the top players in tense situations. I've always enjoyed it.
Having sex with a dead grammar teacher is a violation of past tense usage.
Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense.
We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and surrender to the music.
In German, if a situation is tense, you say 'unter strom' - under electricity.
A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.
Being a control freak makes us tense, stressed out, and unpleasant to be with.
Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.
Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.
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.
Don't tense up no matter what, for you only close off creative power when you do.
When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.
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.
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.
The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.
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.
Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.
I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can't stop it.
Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.
'Rear Window' isn't really a horror film, but it is a psychological drama, which I love. It is very tense.
Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated.
Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.
Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.
I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.
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.
Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed
There are many moments during a match when you are tense, wrestling with yourself. Tennis is a lesson in self-control.
Because that was some mega tense awkwardness, a real 'Hello my name is Ever and I'll be your next stalker' kind of moment.
It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.
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.
You are never quite sure how it will go, and even after a thousand games or so, that tense feeling is still there.
We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
I had worked with many actors who were angry at times and often found them to be tense.
"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body.
Anyway, when I get sorta tense and start thinking about every shot, that's when my game falls apart.
A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.
I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.
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.
I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense as I think of them.
Learning to live in the present tense-one that's free from the failures of the past and the anxieties of the future-is a wonderful gift, and one you always should be striving for.
Marriage is like a tense, unfunny version of Everybody Loves Raymond, only it doesn't last 22 minutes. It lasts forever.
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
Everyone longs for love's tense joys and red delights.
I'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense.
A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional.
Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.
The best coaches have strong charisma to motivate the whole team while managing the relationship with the media, which can be tense.
It is very painful to talk about my dear friend Rishi Kapoor in 'past tense.'
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.
Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future.
It's so difficult to write in motion and get rid of the past tense, and also to create a sense of impermanence.
The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in, with a portion of chips... you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them.
From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge.
Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
She’s my wife. (Stryker) Was. You seem to have forgotten an important verb tense. (Zephyra)
The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.
Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon.
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.