Tension Quotes · Page 19

A mother's love is a sanctuary, Where our soul can find sweet rest, From the struggle and the tension, Of life's fast…

— Helen Steiner Rice

I don't think things are getting more insane. I do know that the country is more divided than it's ever been. Tensions…

— Trevor Noah

All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.

— Robin Morgan

Be modest in your wants...There is nothing that will cause greater tensions in marriage than grinding debt, which will make of you…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Making scary movies and creating tension is very technical and it require a lot of coverage. It requires the stretching of time.

— Franck Khalfoun

Comedy always benefits from different points of view and even tension. It can never be satisfied.

— Nahnatchka Khan

When there is tension, arguments and money problems, it's tough to do your work. Some people thrive on that. I don't.

— Richard Jenkins

I don't want to have so much humor [in films] that it undermines the jeopardy, but enough to sometime relieve tension.

— David Twohy

Sports like baseball or baseball are easy to dramatise, because all of them have a pause and that helps with the tension.…

— Carlos Cuaron

“As the silence returned, I sat back and felt the tension ease away; I hadn’t even known I was tense. A few…

— Gerry Abbey

If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp,…

— Oswald Chambers

Is it just me, or did 2019 feel like an endless fight? Tension over Brexit and climate-change protests trickled down into our…

— Susanna Reid

“Inside the ocher suit, Gabriel was no longer old. Outside it, he was no longer innocent. Every borrowed breath came with a…

— Valon G

My mom let me kind of run free and be rowdy. She encouraged it. I'm a youngest child. So I was spazzy…

— Andy Samberg

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be…

— Russell Baker

A person comes home with all the tension of his life, he or she is totally drained due to all the stress…

— Rakhi Sawant

Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some…

— Elena Ferrante

You have nothing to lose. All that you can lose is your tension and your worry, your little-mindedness, fear, and anxiety. And…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written…

— Vandana Shiva

Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an…

— Horace Mann

“The Warrior of the Light knows that it is impossible to live in a state of complete relaxation. He has learned from…

— Paulo Coelho

Walking uplifts the spirit. Breathe out the poisons of tension, stress, and worry; breathe in the power of God. Send forth little…

— Bill Vaughan

Whatever you are doing, if there is contentment and a feeling that this whole existence is nothing but the manifestation of godliness,…

— Rajneesh

I'd take out a joint and light it. First, just faking it. Then I started lighting live joints, passing them around to…

— Barbra Streisand

The more I think about sex, the better it gets. Here we have a purpose in life, good for the blood circulation,…

— Kate Bush

Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense.

— Bear McCreary

Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom.

— Wally Schirra

All sizes of film sets have the same level of excitement and friction and tension and then vast sections of boredom that…

— David Hayter

“Power is never the beginning of a story. It is always the moment the price becomes visible. — WOLF SUIT by Valon G”

— Valon G

Good design successfully manages the tensions between user needs, technology feasibility, and business viability.

— Tim Brown

Exercise also relieves tension and stress which will help anyone's confidence. Don't think about exercising anymore, just do it. - adaeze don

— Adaeze Don

You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension.

— F. Matthias Alexander

If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension.

— Anthony Hopkins

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within…

— Julio Cortazar

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

— John W. Gardner

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what…

— Lance Armstrong

Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.

— Robert Venturi

I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience

— Bridget Riley

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.

— Antonin Scalia

The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young…

— Henri Nouwen