Past Perfect Tense Quotes

#1. Why would God create people with all these desires and curiosities and then punish them for trying to satisfy them?

Belle Blackburn

#2. The college diploma has no more power to hold the knowledge you have gained in college than a piece of tissue paper over a gas jet can hold the gas in the pipe.

Orison Swett Marden

#3. I can't change the past, but that doesn't mean I can't learn from it. I can't the future, but that doesn't mean I can't be ready for it.

Kenneth De Guzman

#4. Coping with rejection is an important skill to learn and understand when navigating the Art World. Rejection and disinterest is the rule, not the exception.

Paul Russo

#5. Would you be free from the condemnation of the sins that are past, from the power of the temptations that are to come? Then take your stand on the Rock of Ages. Let death, let the grave, let the judgment come, the victory is Christ's and yours through Him.

Dwight L. Moody

#6. The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Zadie Smith

#7. You didn't promise to kill me," Wayne said, pulling on his socks. "You promised to have killed me. That there be the present perfect tense.

Brandon Sanderson

#8. Just looking at him made Andrew feel tense and irritated. It was wonder perfect strangers didn't go up to the guy and punch him in the face.

Jane Davitt

#9. The wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.

Zadie Smith

#10. Very poor speaker," said the King. "You may go," said the King, and the Hatter hurriedly left the court.

Lewis Carroll

#11. Through the eyes of the brave, the future makes past tense perfect sense.

Auliq Ice

#12. I don't mind if the couple next to me is tense or the kids are whiny. I'd even be happy to hear an honest argument, evidence of thinking. I'd like to know these teeth-perfect families don't just buy each other stuff but just occasionally can talk to one another.

Margaret Heffernan

#13. The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development.

Hu Shih

#14. For he is in a past-tense, future-perfect kind of mood.

Zadie Smith