Tense Quotes
252 Tense quotes by 200 unique authors
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Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them…
— Margaret Atwood
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In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard - one that thinks too much.
— Benjamin Hoff
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The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and…
— William Lyon Phelps
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I’ve had a tense couple of days. And I’ve got to tell you, burning someone’s face off sounds like a great way to relax.
— Jim Butcher
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She’s my wife. (Stryker) Was. You seem to have forgotten an important verb tense. (Zephyra)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense as I think…
— Jon McGregor
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Bell seated himself behind the desk, motioning for Nancy to stand opposite him. There was tense silence for a moment. Then Bell reached for a…
— Carolyn Keene
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He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him…
— James Joyce
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The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this frozen present tense.…
— John Fowles
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Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe…
— Thomas Mann
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Your mother sounds like a formidable woman," Valek said into the silence. "You have no idea," Leif replied with a sigh. "Well, if she's anything…
— Maria V. Snyder
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Because that was some mega tense awkwardness, a real 'Hello my name is Ever and I'll be your next stalker' kind of moment...
— Alyson Noel
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Cat cleared her throat in the tense silence that followed. “Uh, before this goes any further, let’s at least introduce ourselves to your friend. I’m…
— Jeaniene Frost
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The warmth of his body shouldn’t have felt good. He was angry and every muscle was tense. It was like being leaned on by a…
— Patricia Briggs
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Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit,…
— Mary Gaitskill
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I think they were afraid that some of us would try to kill ourselves or something because they looked very tense and one of them…
— Stephen Chbosky
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Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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As a maternal figure, I always try to keep the flock safe, of course. But I admit, it did my heart proud to see the…
— James Patterson
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Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, "Life must be…
— Douglas Coupland
Who Wrote These Tense Quotes
200 authors contributed a total of 252 Tense Quotes, led by these top contributors: