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I'm sorry for being a little tense, Island. I suppose I'm not used to having guests in the front seat. My clients usually ride in the trunk, you know. — Camilla Monk

When i feel tense, I remember to relax all of the muscles and organs in my body — Louise Hay

Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. — Bruce Lee

Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated. — David Deida

Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well. — Joe Bradley

My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense. — Trisha Yearwood

We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and surrender to the music. — Pete Hamill

Normally I laugh at such things, because there is nothing like a fart to lighten up a tense situation. — Kevin Hearne

America has become so tense and nervous it has been years since I have seen anyone sleep in church - and that is a sad situation. — Norman Vincent Peale

Everyone longs for love's tense joys and red delights. — Jane Kenyon

Both of us had a lot to say, but there was no room to say it in, we were so tense and close. — Jack Kerouac

People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective. — Diane Sawyer

Eternal life truly begins the moment you're born again. It's a present tense - not future tense - reality. If you're a believer, eternal life is now! — Andrew Wommack

Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off. — Mary Douglas

Just watching her made him too tense, his pants too tight. Dear God, was she even wearing a bra? — Allie K. Adams

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

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense. — George Ade

But thats their image of us so we stay tense, holding our breath, hoping we wont be found out. - about being gay from the film Love My Life — Ebine Yamaji

I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time ... — Edna O'Brien

She's my wife. (Stryker)
Was. You seem to have forgotten an important verb tense. (Zephyra) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger. — Adrienne Rich

I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense. — Ed Weeks

Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE — Tristan Tzara

There's no past tense when you lose someone, Jed. You just keep on loving them. — Garrett Leigh

Get your story written, you always have the second and third draft to fix things like tense, 1st vs 3rd person, the exact right word, etc. — Andromeda Edison

She felt him tense again. When he spoke, every word sounded as if it was being hacked from a chunk of ice by a lethally sharp sword. — Julia Byrne

The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense. — R. K. Milholland

I love you present tense. — John Green

It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense. — Lee Child

I tense. "What?" "Come on," he says, shifting — J.M. Darhower

So the tiresome minutes and decades of minutes dragged away, until at last our tense forms filmed over with a dulled consciousness, — Mark Twain

The silence of a shut park does not sound like the country silence; it is tense and confined. — Elizabeth Bowen

The past, the present, and the future walked into a bar. It was tense. — Lex Martin

Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment. — Mark Steyn

I loved her present tense. — John Green

Mrs. Leene says I should think about people in the present tense.
"It forces you to take responsibility for them," she says. — Adam Rapp

Memory is dramatic present tense. You create it as you remember it. — Allen Wier

I'll be fine," I reply. "Why shouldn't I be? Everything's going just . . . perfectly." I give her a tense smile. — Anonymous

With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear. — Yo-Yo Ma

The old man dance, where I tense up, shuffle my feet intermittently, complain about the music volume, and sit down for a rest. — David Thorne

We tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense. — Dennis Potter

Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature. — Camille Paglia

Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future. — William DeWitt Hyde

Because love is never in the past tense. — Scott D. Brillon

Alex said, his voice subdued, tense. "So it would seem," D.D. — Lisa Gardner

Holding on to anger only gives you tense muscles. — Joan Lunden

Photographs are so strange; they are always in the present tense, everyone captured in a moment that will never come again. — Natasha Solomons

I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:
The past, present, and future walk into a bar - it was tense. — Kelli Russell Agodon

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. — Pearl Bailey

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all. — Ken Kesey

You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go. — Joy Bryant

Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure. — David Deida

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now. — Alex Rodriguez

Quietly ... softly, God taps on our tense shoulders with His love. — Shawntel Jefferson

Wisely the Hebrews admit no Present tense in their language;
While we are speaking the word, it is is already the Past. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I really such a terrible mother?' she asked Bertie. 'Why the past tense?' Bertie said. Sow — Kate Atkinson

What am I always so tense about? Why this desperate struggle just to survive? — Haruki Murakami

Graham's life is as tense as an overstretched simile. — Zane Stumpo

The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have. — Rita Mae Brown

Everything is always happening all at once, in the present tense, forever, the beginning and the end and the denouement and the remaindering. — Catherynne M Valente

Childhood is a tissue of lies that endure in the past tense — Elena Ferrante

I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work. — Matthew Goode

Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed — Brian Tracy

Confidence is the present tense of hope. — Soren Kierkegaard

I was always on guard and I was always prepared for him to be upset with me. I had lived feeling uneasy and tense for so long. — Brenda Perlin

I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense. — Martha Beck

Prayer is asking God to do something, future tense; praise is believing that God has already done it, past tense. — Mark Batterson

Anything more than 5/10ths makes me tense — Jarod Kintz

They never experience the past tense. It's just another thread to them. They don't remember stuff, they relive it. — Peter Watts

A money-lender
he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future. — Joseph Addison

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult. — Anthony Daniels

A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense. — V.S. Pritchett

It's so difficult to write in motion and get rid of the past tense, and also to create a sense of impermanence. — Gerald Vizenor

You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense. — Jane Pauley

Love has no past tense. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense. — Siri Hustvedt

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

This here will be the future tense and you will be able to do anything you will like in it. — Donald Harington

I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense. — Casey Stengel

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If you're supposed to work with someone, I'd recommend not getting all hot and bothered with them the night before. The word of the day was "tense. — Katherine McIntyre

My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition. — Michael Pollan

Amber was past tense. We were covering her inanimate face in the white sheet of was. — Lorrie Moore

It surprised me that I was already using the past tense. People I knew. As if I didn't know them anymore. — Ashley Newell

Excellence is my presence. Never tense, never hesitant. — The Notorious B.I.G.

Being a control freak makes us tense, stressed out, and unpleasant to be with. — Judith Orloff

I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence. — Samantha Bond

It's way too tense. Someone's either going to get into a fight or cry. Neither option is preferable. — Melina Marchetta

It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back. — Bethenny Frankel

Tea is soothing. I wish to be tense. — Rupert Giles

Through the eyes of the brave, the future makes past tense perfect sense. — Auliq Ice

it was impossible; trying to find a meaning in everything meant he had to remain alert and tense — Paulo Coelho

Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It's like I'm writing a novel, constantly, but only in my brain. — Andrew Shaffer

From August 25 to 28, I'm sharing the Amazon proceeds of all versions of Love Is Never Past Tense with Orphan World Relief — Janna Yeshanova

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

You didn't promise to kill me," Wayne said, pulling on his socks. "You promised to have killed me. That there be the present perfect tense. — Brandon Sanderson

Her face was calm, but inside she was tense. — Jeffrey Eugenides

My shoulders tense. I swear Gray gossips more than a flock of old ladies at a cotillion. Where are he and Ivy anyway? — Kristen Callihan

In the sentence "She's no longer suffering," to what, to whom does "she" refer? What does that present tense mean? — Roland Barthes

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense. — Sarah Dessen