Quotes of: Present-tense Keyword

Whatever I do, I do for the universal. It's not like an individual thing; it's not like something from me. What I present to the people is for all of us, you know. I present music for the people.

Burning Spear

And that was something Gwen had on Zoey—she saw the shadow surrounding him, the one he so easily hid from everyone else. Perched on his lap, her pupils were big and her pretty mouth tense. She was afraid of him. But rather than scare her off, the f...

Blood Entangled

And this is the potency a first kiss should have: it should be earned. The moments leading up to it should be as tense as a crossbow drawn back. The reader should want it as badly as the hero and heroine, and feel as satisfied and transported and tra...

Julie Anne Long

When the fisherman bait the hooks, through them into the sea and sits looking at horizon, do not think he is doing nothing. He and all his senses are fully tensed. His eyes monitors the line, his ears picks the slightest sound of the rod, his heart b...

Sameh Elsayed

WEST SALEM ~ October 2011 A sudden vision, fraught with malevolence and darkness, obscured her sight. The face of a menacing figure turned from the shadows of his grisly handiwork and stared at Sorcha. Her muscles tensed. By the Goddess, could he see...

Chérie De Sues

Has God called you to speak out for peace in a tense situation? Are there lives on the line God is calling you to stand up for, to declare peace to, and to encourage toward a non-violent solution? If so, do it. You never know what might happen. Maybe...

Dillon Burroughs

Corruption free" will truly be in a future impossible tense because many people re-elect unscrupulous politicians! In the end because of blind immunity to reality and impunity of "justified" corruptions in the government, it is always the hard workin...

Angelica Hopes

who did I think we were. who did I think I could make you. this is the oldest mistake, to confuse wanting with magic. silence is the undoing of every spell, and we are experts in the unsaid. even now, I forget to put us in past tense. as if the air i...

Love

A sponge to wipe away the past; a rose to sweeten the present; a kiss to greet the future.

Arabian

Your friend will swallow your mistakes, your enemy will present them on a plate.

Arabian

He who gives a monkey as a present doesn't keep hold of its tail.

Ivorian

When a bald man dies the mourners give him curly hair as a present.

Kurdish

To invoke Jesus' name is to place yourself in his presence, to open yourself to his power, his energy. The prayer of Jesus' name actually brings God closer, making him more present. He is always present in some way, since he knows and loves each one ...

Prayer for Beginners

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

Traditional

The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.

Clear and Present Danger

How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.

Confessions

We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?

City of Stairs

The leader acknowledges and eradicates the weeds in the garden, but keeps vision on the beauty they are creating and not on the weeds they are destroying

Breakout Presentations: Wow! People in Business and Life

When you acknowledge the audience's shadow you become their hero.

Business Storytelling Guide: Creating Business Presentations Using Storytelling Techniques

Dennis was present, still present, and this, she thought as she stayed landed against him, was no small talent.

The Interestings

Never compel yourself to say words to which the heart yields no response.

Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time