Quotes with tense

  • While Fidel Castro used to deliver his marathon seven-hour speeches in Havana, Cubans used to joke that if Spanish lacked a future tense, their leader would be speechless. He was only fluent in broken promises, they lamented.
  • Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.

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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bruce Lee A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit, it hits all by itself.
    Bruce Lee: Enter the Dragon (1973)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Hans Magnus Enzensberger A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!
    Hans Magnus Enzensberger
    German author, poet, translator and editor (1929 - )
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  • Bill Hicks Good theory. But guess what, if I don't smoke there's going to be secondary bullets coming your way, 'cause I'm that tense.
    Sane Man
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Joan Lunden Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
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  • Lorrie Moore I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are not personally responsible for.
    Lorrie Moore
    American writer (1957 - )
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  • Bethenny Frankel It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.
    Bethenny Frankel
    American reality television personality, entrepreneur, and author (1970 - )
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  • George Ade Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
    George Ade
    American humorist, playwright (1866 - 1944)
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  • Sam Snead Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
    Sam Snead
    American professional golfer (1912 - 2002)
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  • Camille Paglia Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Rita Mae Brown 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
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler While Fidel Castro used to deliver his marathon seven-hour speeches in Havana, Cubans used to joke that if Spanish lacked a future tense, their leader would be speechless. He was only fluent in broken promises, they lamented.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Jane Pauley You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense.
    Jane Pauley
    American journalist (1950 - )
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