“That’s probably the worst thing about death. Is turns into was. Everything that was once present tense is now in the past.” — Caleb Reese Copy Share Image
“At the kitchen table she examined the glass of ice. Each cube was rounded by room temperature, dissolving in its own remains,… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
“Middlemarch is a novel that is diminished by being put on the screen. It can't help but be, because so much of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Life is like a grammar lesson. You find the past perfect and the present tense. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
And the first till last alshemist wrote over every square inch of the only foolscap available, his own body, till by its… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
There's a desire for me in the work, even when I'm looking at the past, to be looking from the present. It's… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“The I AM statements recorded in Scripture reveal the depths of the Christian life and how God’s children can go deeper by… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
The past is something for you to learn from and the future is something that you hope is going to happen, but… — Katt Williams Copy Share Image
“When we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I would have to take my glasses off simply so the world would smudge and recede for a moment and cease… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“A travel website says that there are 280 fountains in Rome, but it seems as if there are more:...Remove them and there… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Oh God, Alaska, I love you. I love you," and the Colonel whispered, "I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did," and… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The Greek is even more explicitly against the hyper-grace interpretation, since the word confess in the Greek speaks of continuous, present action… — Michael L. Brown Copy Share Image
“To remember was an act not of excavation but of self-creation in the present tense.” — Laura Secor Copy Share Image
“Is that how it goes with writing? That as long as you are writing, no time is ever completely in the past?… — Kyung-Sook Shin Copy Share Image
A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Almost by definition, secularism cannot be a future: it's a present-tense culture that over time disconnects a society from cross-generational purpose. Which… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Hope requires a very careful symbolization. It must not be expressed too fully in the present tense because hope one can touch… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“That was one of your favorite themes: that profusion, replication, popularity wasn't necessarily devaluing, and that time itself made all things rare.… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
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… — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living… — Alex Rodriguez Copy Share Image
