We tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense.
People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.
I love you present tense.
Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense.
I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is.
In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.
They WERE walking alongside the road, they WERE hit by a car, and now they ARE dead. It doesn't work. Are is present tense. Dead is -- well, dead is past, isn't it? Present tense modifying past; being modifying non-being. Language, in this instance" ...
Is life like this? Is it a past that goes by, then crumbles away, and a present that runs in the wake of the past, and a future that can only be grasped if one talks of it in the present or past tense?
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
People conjugate to the present; politics to other tenses. (Peuple conjugue au présent; - Politique aux autres temps.)
Oh God, Alaska, I love you. I love you," and the Colonel whispered, "I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did," and I said, "No. Not past tense." She wasn't even a person anymore, just flesh rotting, but I loved her present tense.
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.
People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.
Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.
His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.
I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it: The past, present, and future walk into a bar—it was tense.
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.
For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of course, time shifts a little for them and Christmas comes round in the end. But they don’t feel it. Today is what t...
So what did you do when death came to your house? We continued in the same way as before. What is that, a failure of the imagination? Are you in denial? This is not wholly true; we continue in the same way as before but in parenthesis. My thinking ha...
Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It's like I'm writing a novel.
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.
