Present Passive

Famous quotes containing the words present and/or passive:

“The entire fruit is already present in the seed.”
—Tertullian (c. 150–230)

“The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread.... The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)