#tense

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more. ↗

— Alan Hansen

#failure #intense #more #more and more #penalty

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music. ↗

— Stendhal

#argument #cautious #governed #habit #intense

If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#good #hell #many #money #obtaining

I get very nervous whenever I think about it. I've never done a serious play, and I have such awe of the woman - she's really my only idol. It's going to be a big stretch - certain people come out on stage and your face muscles automatically tense and you get ready to smile. ↗

— Judy Holliday

#automatically #awe #big #certain #come

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#desire #intense #intense desire #only #opportunities

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#existence #imperfect #never #present #really

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! ↗

— Edith Wharton

#family #friends #insincerity #kindness #loneliness

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#contemplation #derived #elevating #i #intense

I was utterly convinced that an intellectual could never be anything but an intellectual, was simply not capable of being anything else, that his intellectuality would, sooner or later, erode his faith or erode whatever he'd masked it with . . . For example, intellectuals like to dress themselves up as peasants . . . but it never works. The intellectual's constitution is impervious to such things - it permits only one object of worship - oneself. Generally speaking, an intellectual in the contemporary version is an exceptionally resourceful and, essentially, pitiful being. ↗

— Leonid Borodin

#intellectualism #intellectuals #posturing #pretense #faith

We are who we pretend to be, so we must be careful of who we pretend to be. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#pretense #inspirational