Tension Quotes · Page 13

Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines…

— Auguste Escoffier

“In real life, as we know, the failure to relax a particular tension can lead to madness.”

— Ray Bradbury

You ask me, "Will you say something more about relaxation? I am aware of a tension deep in the core of me…

— Rajneesh

There's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans…

— Dana Goldstein

When something explosive is kept hidden away, a tension builds within that must ultimately be released.

— Orhan Pamuk

I believe when you bring, say, a plant into a room, everything in that room changes in relation to it. This tension…

— Patrick Swift

It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe…

— Jeff VanderMeer

Stress happens. In different ways, we all hold unnecessary tension in our bodies all day long. Shoulders, neck, wrists, hips, hamstrings, back,…

— Tara Stiles

I've never seen a professor of religion on television before, and I thought that was fascinating. The creative tension with spirituality vs.…

— Tim Daly

Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition.…

— Edmund Hillary

There is something about dance that is actually a great tension. There is something that is incredibly freeing about dancing for dancers…

— George Nolfi

[The tension] between the Christians and Muslims goes back to the Crusades, doesn't it? It's too easy to blame everything on one…

— Mickey Rourke

Find moments in your life in which you had communication with people. You will see that most of our tensions, disappointments ,…

— Torkom Saraydarian

Each email contains an unsubscribe link. We will NEVER sell, rent, loan, or abuse your email address in ANY way. One way…

— Byron Nelson

I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions…

— Hans Hofmann

Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. Do…

— Horatio Dresser

The individuals inside are frequently fighting that their individual voices be heard, while the walls of the place, which are the mask,…

— Anonymous

“She'd stutter all the reasons why she shouldn't, shaking her head adamantly. But her body..her body would grow hot with excitement. She'd…

— S.L. Jennings

Tension means hurry, fear, doubt. Tension means a constant effort to protect, to be secure, to be safe. Tension means preparing for…

— Rajneesh

Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Millennials are an easy group to identify in terms of their appearance and are therefore highly subject to being stereotyped. When a…

— Chip Espinoza

The capacity for the accomplishment of religious virtuosos the "intellectual sacrifice" is the decisive characteristic of the positively religious man. That this…

— Max Weber

There is no knowing beyond that membrane, the meniscus of death. What can be seen from here is distorted, refracted. All we…

— China Mieville

I think I was just too young to even understand what was going on. When I was still living in South Africa,…

— St. Lucia

I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.

— Murray Walker

It seems when I put together records, as Henley used to say, they're just like movies. They should have action, tension, love…

— Glenn Frey

There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh.

— George Meyer

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.

— Edward Abbey

Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.

— Patricia Cornwell

“The fog did not hide London. It revealed what the city had been trying to bury. — WOLF SUIT by Valon G”

— Valon G

I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.'

— Alexandre Aja

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

— Rollo May

Jesus brings mystery, paradox, and tension - rarely did someone get a straight answer out of Him

— Mike Erre

If only there was a way I could cover my tension with the scent of eau de brass valls instead.

— Jeaniene Frost

Im not the voice of reason; Im more the guy using these offensive topics as fodder to raise tension in a joke.

— Anthony Jeselnik

Unbridled capitalism in the United States can't be sustained socially. It leads to tensions.

— Kenneth Rogoff

The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown…

— Graham Greene

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's…

— John le Carre

Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I'm fine. I'm in another world - in a trance almost, doing what I…

— Jimmy Page