Present Tense Quotes - Page 3

• The present tense made him nervous.

  William Gibson

  Nervous, Made, Tense

  William Gibson (2000). “Neuromancer”, p.46, Penguin

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• We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Past, Wrath

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• 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 that. 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. My goal is to play one full game in the now, but I haven't even gotten past the first inning yet. I start thinking about where my mom is or if my dogs have been fed. The average human has 2,000 thoughts a day. The really accomplished have 1,500 because you can focus longer. I need to learn how to focus longer.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Mom, Dog, Learning

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• 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

  Tense, Feels, Happened

  "Things I Don't Want to Know by Deborah Levy - review" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2013.

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• Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future.

  William DeWitt Hyde

  Regret, Past, Hands

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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 can only imagine. These places have teachers who are living and dead and we are lucky to have them. If I sit here and read Aristotle, he is speaking to me across a thousand years - more than a thousand years. That sense that I am in the company of the great greatest people who ever lived is a humbling experience but a liberating experience.

  Pete Hamill

  Teacher, Past, Years

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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 or that He will bless, but that He does bless, here and now. Trust always operates in the present tense. Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses. Trust receives what prayer acquires. So, what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Doe, Needs

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• I love you present tense.

  John Green

  Love You, Tense, Hazel Grace

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.270, Penguin

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• Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.

  John Green

  Literature, Kind, Speak

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

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• Hope requires a very careful symbolization. It must not be expressed too fully in the present tense because hope one can touch and handle is not likely to retain its promissory call to a new future. Hope expressed only in the present tense will no doubt be coopted by the managers of this age

  Walter Brueggemann

  Doubt, Age, Tense

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