Being a control freak makes us tense, stressed out, and unpleasant to be with. — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
“I saw a button pin once that said: “I’m not tense. I’m just very, very alert.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure. — David Deida Copy Share Image
I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense. — Ed Weeks Copy Share Image
The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense. — R. K. Milholland 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
I’m a serious-minded and intense little devil – terribly gauche and so tense that I don’t see how people can stay in… — James Dean Copy Share Image
Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense… — Jon McGregor Copy Share Image
In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of being rude. (Uptight, tense, and… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Marriage is like a tense, unfunny version of Everybody Loves Raymond, only it doesn't last 22 minutes. It lasts forever. -Pete — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it’s like his nerves are a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Bell seated himself behind the desk, motioning for Nancy to stand opposite him. There was tense silence for a moment. Then Bell… — Carolyn Keene Copy Share Image
The whole world is tense. Everybody gets the international news. Theres been no American comedy at all that even remotely addresses the… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
Mary Mackey joins other visionary poets of dpaysement . . . recovering a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of… — Dennis Nurkse Copy Share Image
Twitter has allowed the conversation to broaden and become more inclusive. At times, the conversation is really tense but that's because we're… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Everything is beautiful. We have all this beauty in the world and all we have to do is reach out and touch… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Mary stared at the dreamlike happenings on the page. Human figures faced each other; the man’s head was a golden ball with… — Susan Rowland Copy Share Image
It will come with a rush and a roar and a shudder. It will come howling and laughing and shrieking and moaning.… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
“He knew that he was caught up in one of those stretches of time when for anything to happen normally would be… — Mervyn Peake 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
Though there was no sound, there was a change. The atmosphere, which had gone tense at my accusation, relaxed. I wondered how… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
You probably think that being a guest in your aunt's house I would hesitate to butter you all over the front lawn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Time in China has no immediacy as in America. Here I find the swift passage of our few earthly years accepted as… — Nora Waln Copy Share Image
As Marcus considered various ways to open the subject of Daisy, Swift surprised him with a blunt statement. “My lord, there is… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
I do remember, one time, a man came to me after the students began to work in Mississippi and he said the… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Some people who experience a religious conversion seem to undergo a personality change. They can be quite congenial and easygoing when talking… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
When i feel tense, I remember to relax all of the muscles and organs in my body — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
There is no past tense in loving someone.it's either you always will or you never did… — Paritoshik Sharma Copy Share Image
I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored. — Catherine Deneuve Copy Share Image
It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back. — Bethenny Frankel Copy Share Image
“t felt like stepping into a spa, or a dream, or a memory she hadn’t known she missed.” — D.L. Maddox Copy Share Image
