Tense Quotes
252 quotes by 210 authors
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As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from,…
— Margaret Atwood
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To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.
— Pearl Bailey
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I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.
— Martha Beck
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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
— George Ade
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A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I…
— Bruce Lee
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Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a belief that God can bless…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other people's too; our fear lets us practice valor; we are tense,…
— Nancy Gibbs
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You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.
— Jane Pauley
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The silence of a shut park does not sound like the country silence; it is tense and confined.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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The body is consuming energy when tense, and restoring energy when it is relaxed.
— Ronnie Lott
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We had to be to the stadium at six o'clock for home games, and traffic was so bad it would take us an hour and…
— Michael Jordan
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Remember, don't start trying to relax; that is the most absurd thing in the world. And there are many stupid people writing books about relaxation.…
— Rajneesh
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Religion is not a result of something that you practice. Religion enters in you any moment you relax. Religion is a flowering of relaxation, not…
— Rajneesh
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Try to relax, and you will find out that you feel more tense than ever. Try harder and you will feel more tense and more…
— Rajneesh
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There is no possibility of relaxation if you have a mind and an ego; the ego is the center of the mind. You will be…
— Rajneesh
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Whenever you drop something by fight, it is never dropped. You can drop smoking by fighting, and then you will start doing something else which…
— Rajneesh
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You cannot stop smoking directly because it has many related things, implications. You are tense, and if you stop smoking you will start something else…
— Rajneesh
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For me, the best time to pray is the very moment a tense situation or an unspiritual attitude overtakes me. God the Holy Spirit is…
— Billy Graham
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What libraries give you is all three tenses - the past tense - the present tense in which we live and the future that we…
— Pete Hamill
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The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of…
— Jennifer James
Who Wrote These Tense Quotes
210 authors contributed a total of 252 Tense Quotes, led by these top contributors: