Quotes About Future Tense

#1. There are tenses that define us now: past tense, back then; future tense, not yet. We live in the small window between them, the space we've only recently come to think as still, and really it's no smaller than anyone else's window.

Margaret Atwood

#2. Prayer is asking God to do something, future tense; praise is believing that God has already done it, past tense.

Mark Batterson

#3. As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

Margaret Atwood

#4. This here will be the future tense and you will be able to do anything you will like in it.

Donald Harington

#5. I don't view myself from the past present or future tense i like to think of the world from my own personal point of view at whatever time i feel that is relayed to me in conjunction with my well being to progressively grow successfully finacially as well as mentally.

Riff Raff

#6. I don't know what I would do without you. I don't know what I will do without you. I learned about the future tense, how anxiety is encoded into our sentences, our conditionals, our thoughts, how worry is encoded into language itself, into grammar.

Charles Yu

#7. Eternal life truly begins the moment you're born again. It's a present tense - not future tense - reality. If you're a believer, eternal life is now!

Andrew Wommack

#8. Naturally Teseo had a joke about all the government promises to increase housing construction: "If there were no future tense in Spanish, Castro would be speechless.

Regina Anavy

#9. Don't give up on your dream. If you do, you aren't just giving up on its present-tense reality. You're giving up on its future-tense potential. Were

Mark Batterson

#10. I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.

Mary Doria Russell

#11. Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense.

Dennis Crowley

#12. 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.

Art Garfunkel

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

Zadie Smith

#14. I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:
The past, present, and future walk into a bar - it was tense.

Kelli Russell Agodon

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

Zadie Smith

#16. 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.

Alex Rodriguez

#17. My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.

Michael Pollan

#18. Lilianna: Ask me again later.
Tate: Okay Lil'Miss. Magic 8 Ball.
Lilianna: Really, ask me again in a few weeks. I'll have a better read on the relationship in the present tense then.
Tate: You'll have a better read on the present in the future. Yeah, I think that's called History class.

H.R. Willaston

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

Auliq Ice

#20. 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

Walter Brueggemann

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

Zadie Smith

#22. The tense of the body is the present indicative; but the soul has a memory and a present and a future. I have conceived some extremely recondite pains for Mr. Trellis. I will pierce him with a pluperfect.

Flann O'Brien

#23. Like the wild beasts, she lives without a future. She inhabits only the present tense, a fugue of the continuous, a world of sensual immediacy as without hope as it is without despair.

Angela Carter

#24. The past is something for you to learn from and the future is something that you hope is going to happen, but I'm always speaking to my actual fans in present tense.

Katt Williams

#25. The past, the present, and the future walked into a bar. It was tense.

Lex Martin

#26. Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are rooted in the future or the present tense as much as in the past. And home, we know, is not just the place where you happen to be born. It's the place where you become yourself.

Pico Iyer

#27. Meditation is just being delighted in your own presence ... where you are not doing anything. The moment doing enters, you become tense; anxiety enters immediately. How to do? What to do? How to succeed? How not to fail? You have already moved into the future.

Rajneesh

#28. And it occurs to me that there's no real difference between us, the living and the dead; it's just a matter of tense: past-dead and future-dead

Rick Yancey

#29. Only in the present tense is the subject married to its verb. The action - all action, past and future - comes at the end. At the very end, when there is nothing left to do but act.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#30. Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future.

William DeWitt Hyde

#31. 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.

Colin Quinn

#32. 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?

Kahlil Gibran

#33. Learning to live in the present tense-one that's free from the failures of the past and the anxieties of the future-is a wonderful gift, and one you always should be striving for.

Rick Pitino

#34. 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.

Joseph Addison

#35. Chronocanine Envy:
Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, Life must be lived forward.

Douglas Coupland