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
“People who notice birds are all listening in the same language, and it's always in the present tense.” — Laura Munson Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Leene says I should think about people in the present tense. “It forces you to take responsibility for them,” she says.” — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense,… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“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
I go up but at the same time go down. Up towards the blue sky, and down towards the ground. Im present… — Babloo Copy Share Image
“The phrase “I have children” is always present tense. They are always with me. Even when I am by myself, I “have… — Jim Gaffigan 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
“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
We can't handle violence in women characters but we CAN handle what's done to women in our present tense every second of… — Lidia Yuknavitch 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
“There. I said it. "Anne is my best friend: I say that in the present tense because I don't like to think… — Roxanne Henke Copy Share Image
“Some of the best things are done by those with nowhere to turn, by those who don't have time, by those who… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“He kisses—how do I explain it? Like someone in love. Like he has nothing to lose. Like someone who has just learned… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those… — Art Garfunkel Copy Share Image
“I'm sitting at the bar, rearranging the order of my jokes. I'm under the delusion that I'm having bad shows because of… — Patton Oswalt 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
“The Constructed Space" Meanwhile surely there must be something to say, Maybe not suitable but at least happy In a sense between… — W.S. Graham Copy Share Image
“People work, not me. I look out the window, look out the window, out the window. Outside it's winter, and it's sunny.… — Romina Paula Copy Share Image
“We're in her bedroom,and she's helping me write an essay about my guniea pig for French class. She's wearing soccer shorts with… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
“Longing is the absent chatting with the absent. The distant turning toward the distant. Longing is the spring’s thirst for the jar-carrying… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“. . . at this season, the blossom is out in full now, there in the west early. It's a plum tree,… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The widower was so full of questions that I half expected him to ask for an identity card. The only thing I… — Joy Kagawa 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
Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future. — William DeWitt Hyde Copy Share Image
In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With… — Kevin Systrom Copy Share Image
“Like the wild beasts, she lives without a future. She inhabits only the present tense, a fugue of the continuous, a world… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well. — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
“In 1997, climate change was discussed in the future tense. Today we discuss it in the present tense. It is no longer… — Lester R. Brown 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
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
People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
“It made me happy that poems are referred to in the present tense even when the poet is in the past tense.” — David Benioff Copy Share Image
The nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous. [...] If you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
Sex is common noun that standing or lying down past or present tense done with the girl with the common sense ... — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
“Where is my second road to the staircase of expanse? Where is futility? Where is the road to the road? And where… — Mahmoud Darwish 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
“He kisses--how do I explain it? Like someone in love. Like he has nothing to lose. Like someone who has just learned… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
To be honest, we live in an exciting time where form is concerned. My sincerest hope is that more people will notice… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
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