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Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come. Quote Right
Quote Left 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! Quote Right
Quote Left Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light Give me light' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour. Quote Right
Quote Left Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain. Quote Right
Quote Left Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence... Quote Right
Quote Left Life is like a grammar lesson. You find the past perfect and the present tense. Quote Right
Quote Left Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense. Quote Right
Quote Left To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. Quote Right
Quote Left [Viewers get glimpses of Banks' personality on Model , although she admits that in the tense elimination scenes she's playing] a little bit of a character. ... She told me, 'People are going to feel like they know you because you're on TV every single day. This is a whole different life, so get ready for it.' Quote Right
Quote Left We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come. Quote Right
Quote Left Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense. Quote Right
Quote Left Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. Quote Right

Member Quotes About Tense

Quote Left The repetition of melody patterns, ...contains a correspondence to lyrical repetitions of words. These repetitions contain the opportunity to affiliate tense and perception! Quote Right
Quote Left After this earthly hell, we move on to another battle and that battle is far more intense. Quote Right
Quote Left "I grew infatuated when I caught a glimpse, sparking the brightest burning source of intense desire hidden behind divine purity." Quote Right
Quote Left Within the hallowed walls of life we play with the dignities our pretense describes to children. Quote Right
Quote Left The sexual nature of a man is his most intense expression of himself; his subconsciousness endeavors thereby to inform his consciousness of his Will… It is supremely sacred to him, and to interfere with its expression, or try to edit it, is an abominable crime.” Quote Right
Quote Left Nostalgia is the past tense for hope. Quote Right
Quote Left When you focus too intensely on the future you ignore the wisdom and the beauty of the present. Quote Right
Quote Left On my command she said, lifted from the grass. Like the lady bugs...flying from the blades. Into the intense grip of the scorching June heat. Quote Right
Quote Left Peace of mind catnaps on a bed of feathers, While anxiety lies tense on ticking filled with straw. Quote Right
Quote Left Biblioramble - verb 1. to talk under the pretense of teaching or discussing the Bible while merely stringing together incoherent, out-of-context fragments of Scripture, typically accented with "the Lord told me" or "this is what it means to me" subjective sentiments. Quote Right
Quote Left "MUSIC makes me Alive" It has such an Intense Force, That keeps.. Sorrows aside and make me.. "Drive my DREAMS" Quote Right

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