Present Passive

Famous quotes containing the words present and/or passive:

“That the end is not far off since it will occur
In the present and this is the present.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“It is my conviction that in general women are more snobbish and class conscious than men and that these ignoble traits are a product of men’s attitude toward women and women’s passive acceptance of this attitude.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)