Tense Quotes

252 quotes by 200 authors

You have to relax when you're shooting an arrow. You can't be tense. And that just helps, in your day-to-day life. — Stephen Amell
And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look… — Margaret Atwood
Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure. — David Deida
Donâ€™t sit down in the middle of the woods. If youâ€™re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong.… — Margaret Atwood
You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go. — Joy Bryant
Some people who experience a religious conversion seem to undergo a personality change. They can be quite congenial and easygoing when talking about mundane things,… — Darrel Ray
What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper, write it in the present tense. You might begin… — Bob Proctor
Excellence is my presence. Never tense, never hesitant. — The Notorious B.I.G.
The skin of the coward changes color all the time, he can't get a grip on himself, he can't sit still, he squats and rocks,… — Homer
It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back. — Bethenny Frankel
Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes, a man of… — Henry David Thoreau
The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin Enger writes with… — Benjamin Percy
Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch;… — Henry Ward Beecher
The story is the only thing that's important. Everything else will take care of itself. It's like what bowlers say. You hear writers talk about… — Stephen King
People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper. — Colin Quinn
In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus… — Kevin Systrom
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… — Erich von Stroheim
In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether… — Hippocrates
Inject laughter into tense situations to save the day; laughter calms tempers and soothes jangled nerves. — Wilferd Peterson
Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off. — Mary Douglas

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