#tense

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world. ↗

— Richard Powers

#binary #book #character #either #emotions

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

#even #future #job #like #money

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

#consumed #future #i #live #living

I have a very intense marriage. ↗

— James Ellroy

#intense #marriage #very

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#day #every #every day #fact #fragmented

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#enormous #evil #exist #makes #menacing

The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#dance #exposing #ideas #intense #itself

We know that Libya is still recovering from an intense period of conflict. And there are many courageous Libyans who bear the scars of that battle. ↗

— J. Christopher Stevens

#bear #conflict #courageous #intense #know

I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#because #definitely #drawn #get #happens

Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#aftermath #because #bush #connected #false