The past is always tense, the future perfect.
. . . I crave a shawl. " He was tense with anger but his hands remained gentle at her waist. He said, "I can make you a shawl. " She cocked her head. "You knit? Well. That's an unusual accomplishment in a soldier.
Politics is history in the present tense.
Excellence is my presence. Never tense, never hesitant.
She’s my wife. (Stryker) Was. You seem to have forgotten an important verb tense. (Zephyra)
Confidence is the present tense of hope.
Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.
The DNA of the novel - which, if I begin to write nonfiction, I will write about this - is that: the title of the novel is the whole novel. The first line of the novel is the whole novel. The point of view is the whole novel. Every subplot is the whole novel. The verb tense is the whole novel.
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, and to then store it like a genie in tense, tiny black symbols on a calm white page. If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment.
Having sex with a dead grammar teacher is a violation of past tense usage.
I have this great fear of people - not when I'm on the runway, but backstage. In a room full of people, I really suffer. I sort of go into a tunnel and I feel very removed. I get so tense, I can't swallow, and my heartbeat goes way up. It still happens now, although I'm better at controlling it.
If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it’s like his nerves are a piece of rubber that has been stretched out. It’s hard to go back to the original shape.
A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional.
As Einstein queried, 'Why is it that I get my best ideas in the morning while I'm shaving?' Shaving is like meditation with a sharp object. When the mind is empty and receptive, big ideas flow through every cell of our body. When we're thinking too hard, we tense up and nothing can flow through us; our energy gets stuck in our heads. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and trust that if you turn off your head, your feet will take you where you need to go.
It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.
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.
Tense and nervous are not the words, though they are the words
I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.
It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.
the old man dance, where I tense up, shuffle my feet intermittently, complain about the music volume, and sit down for a rest.