Present Passive

Famous quotes containing the words present and/or passive:

“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)

“We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice—that is, until we have stopped saying “It got lost,” and say, “I lost it.””
—Sydney J. Harris (b. 1917)