Tension Quotes

Tension of opposites.

— Mitch Albom

“The body tells the mind what to think.”

— David Harold Fink

Sex relieves tension - love causes it.

— Woody Allen

Tension is the great integrity.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Let the music diffuse all the tension.

— Nas

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry

— Eckhart Tolle

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

— Woody Allen

History is where tensions were.

— Howard Nemerov

Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.

— Henry Moore

The tension between Jews and Arabs tears us apart.

— Benny Gantz

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

— Quincy Jones

“I have never been sad because my losses are my profits”

— Praveen KC

Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face.

— Lauren Hutton

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

— Andrew Denton

“The suit was not clothing. It was hunger with seams.”

— Valon G

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

— Lorrie Moore

... While nervous tension may be a component of stress, one can be stressed without feeling tension.

— Gabor Mate

Kill tension before tension kills you, Reach your goal before goal kicks you. Live life before life leaves you.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Oil prices jumped to well over $100 a barrel, and analysts say it's due to tension in the Middle East. So, luckily,…

— Jay Leno

The desire for perfect release and the real-world impossibility of perfect, whenever-you-want-it release had together produced a tension they could no longer…

— David Foster Wallace

I believe that solution to all problems is in development. Development is also the solution to the tension that people talk about.

— Narendra Modi

To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social…

— John Updike

From the beginning, Christianity has struggled to sustain the creative tension between the personal appropriation of the gospel and the gospel's universal…

— Stanley Hauerwas

If pornography releases sexual tension, why don't we send recipe books to the starving?

— Andrea Dworkin

The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form…

— Ann Macbeth

Maybe what life needs is a good soundtrack, especially during the long stretches when nothing interesting is being said. A soundtrack might…

— Jonathan Hull

There's always a tension in my world between the pragmatic and the practical and the theoretical. I have a very theoretical turn…

— Michael Pollan

What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally…

— Mehmet Oz

People are weird. We do live on all levels at the same time and you can be fighting and flirting, and there…

— Alice Eve

I have always loved telling stories about families. I love the idea of people who may not choose to be together, but…

— Jeff Lemire

It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

When you're made to be frightened within a safe context, like watching a horror film, you have that tension/release which triggers all…

— Derren Brown

Danger lurks when we divide ourselves with expressions such as "my private life," "my professional life," or even "my best behavior." Living…

— Russell M. Nelson

I think that the global consciousness concerning all those elements that produce tension, fractions of societies, is changing in the sense that…

— Gilberto Gil

Every time I try to disown that concept for myself, which is a really healthy perspective, they bring it back all the…

— Gavin Rossdale

With Climate Change as a Security Risk, WBGU has compiled a flagship report on an issue that quite rightly is rising rapidly…

— Achim Steiner

Psychiatrists declare that most of our fatigue derives from our mental and emotional attitudes... What kinds of emotional factors tire the sedentary…

— Dale Carnegie

Kristen is really focused and really quiet, as an actress. She just does her thing, but she's cool. I like her. I…

— Tinsel Korey

“History is one long chain of reflections. Hegel also indicated certain rules that apply for this chain of reflections. Anyone studying history…

— Jostein Gaarder

I didn’t tell him. He found out. Basically, he caught me coming in after the last time you and I saw each…

— Claudia Gray