Tense Quotes

252 Tense quotes by 200 unique authors

Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed — Brian Tracy
Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future. — William DeWitt Hyde
A man who thinks that death is against life can never be non-violent. It is impossible. A man who thinks that death is the enemy… — Rajneesh
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature. — Camille Paglia
Almost everyone seems concerned with the need to relax tension. However, relaxation of tension, which everyone thinks is good, is not easily distinguished from relaxing… — Unknown Author
When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense. — Deborah Levy
I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous… — Casey Affleck
First Lady Michelle Obama appears on 'Sesame Street' to celebrate the show's 40th anniversary. It's going to be a big episode. Yes, sources say the… — Conan O'Brien
The whole world is tense. Everybody gets the international news. Theres been no American comedy at all that even remotely addresses the subject in any… — Albert Brooks
A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. — Bruce Lee
Marriage is like a tense, unfunny version of Everybody Loves Raymond, only it doesn't last 22 minutes. It lasts forever. — Paul Rudd
I’m a serious-minded and intense little devil – terribly gauche and so tense that I don’t see how people can stay in the same room… — James Dean
Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality. — C J Cherryh
I'm focussing on what I haven't attained, not what I have. A lot has come to me early. I don't want to get consumed with… — Alex Rodriguez
One of the things that adds tension to our lives is small frustrations. Losing car keys can give you a panic attack. Not being able… — Jennifer James
Why is so much sex needed? Because you are tense, sex becomes a release. Your tensions are released through it - you feel relaxed, you… — Rajneesh
And when you try too hard, it doesn't work. Try grabbing something quickly and precisely with a tensed-up arm; then relax and try it again.… — Benjamin Hoff
Start from the body, and then go, slowly slowly, deeper. And don't start with anything else unless you have first solved the primary. If your… — Rajneesh
Your so-called religions have made you very tense. Because they have created guilt in you. My effort here is to help you get rid of… — Rajneesh
The mist was so challenging and the winds hit me, definitely more than I expected. It was definitely those winds, you can't re-enact them, you… — Nik Wallenda
Life as such has to be taken as a cosmic joke - and then suddenly you relax because there is nothing to be tense about.… — Rajneesh
I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time.... — Edna O'Brien
Mary Mackey joins other visionary poets of dpaysement . . . recovering a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of the tropics, haunted… — Dennis Nurkse
... Aqualung was a difficult and very tense album to record... while I was playing the solo, Jimmy Page walked into the control room and… — Unknown Author
But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always… — Zadie Smith

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