the old man dance, where I tense up, shuffle my feet intermittently, complain about the music volume, and sit down for a rest.
. . . 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.
This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud. I should have been with him; she should have left him alone. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.
Having sex with a dead grammar teacher is a violation of past tense usage.
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.
I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.
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.
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.
The body is consuming energy when tense, and restoring energy when it is relaxed.
A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional.
There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce.
I'm unaware that my feet are moving to the table until I'm inches from the holograph. My hand reaches in and cups a rapidly blinking green light. Someone joins me, his body tense. Finnick, of course. Because only a victor would see what I see so immediately. The arena. Laced with pods controlled by Gamemakers. Finnick's fingers caress a steady red glow over a doorway. "Ladies and gentlemen. . . " His voice is quiet, but mine rings through the room. "Let the Seventy-sixth Hunger Games begin!
I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can't stop it.
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
She’s my wife. (Stryker) Was. You seem to have forgotten an important verb tense. (Zephyra)
There are people in poverty who, if they have the gumption, say, "I'm leaving here. I'm gonna take three jobs and make it. " There are definitely people who do that, and it shapes the rest of their life. And that's almost as unfortunate as someone who says, "Why bother? I'm not even gonna try. " There are people consumed by that, and I've been affected by it. It's been a detriment for sure. It was ridiculous, and I don't want to see anyone go through that again. It makes me compassionate, and when I see it, it makes my shoulders tense up, and you remember it.
Marriage is like a tense, unfunny version of Everybody Loves Raymond, only it doesn't last 22 minutes. It lasts forever.
With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.
Tea is soothing. I wish to be tense.
Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon.