Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension. — David Deida Copy Share Image
Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain…The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“Guests arrived carrying more than luggage. They brought frustration, uncertainty, exhaustion.” — Belinda Kelderhouse Copy Share Image
It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
I did not like 'The Hurt Locker.' It's a lazy way to make a movie, frankly. I could put you on the… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The problem is, if at all, in the different view of the economy, of economic growth. Growth is too low, even for… — Paolo Gentiloni Copy Share Image
We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
Narrative is so important for building the sexual tension. Can you imagine a horror movie that only shows the blood, with no… — Erika Lust Copy Share Image
We must do what we can to reduce, not increase, tensions. We must do what we can to present only the facts… — Percy Spender Copy Share Image
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences,… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
Everyone has a special place they store their tension (I'm on shiatsu duty), the same way everyone misspells the same words over… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Well, thanks. It was nice of you to give me anything." The tension between them seemed to press down on her like… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs, shared attitudes. That is what enables a people to maintain a cohesive… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Elements within Malcolm's X own entourage, some of them were very angry with some of the changes that had occurred with Malcolm.… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
Just as counterpoint and harmony follow their own laws, and differ in rhythm and movement, both formal tensions and color tensions have… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
We, black British, were searching - as the first generation that was born and raised here - for our own identity. We… — Jazzie B Copy Share Image
But if we establish the working hypothesis that the UFOs are machines, we also have to assume the following: a) They are… — Hermann Oberth Copy Share Image
The world was created because God willed it, but why did He will it? Judaism has maintained, in all of its versions,… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension. — Jacky Ickx Copy Share Image
Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent,… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Washington's adventuristic policy, whipping up international tension to the utmost, is pushing mankind towards nuclear catastrophe. — Konstantin Chernenko Copy Share Image
We like to keep the sexual tension underplayed, especially between the Smoking Man and me. Once we thought he was my father… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“It was like hacking through a thicket of raw tension whenever we were near each other.” — Jessica Shirvington Copy Share Image
Fasting gives your body time to heal itself. It relieves nervousness and tension and gives your digestive system a rest. — Jentezen Franklin Copy Share Image
“. . . Most falls aren't free -- there is always the tension, it seems to me, between what you are falling… — Peter Pouncey Copy Share Image
I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over. — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty. — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Paris-New York, the two high tension magnetic poles between life, life of the senses, of the spirit in Paris, and life in… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tension. As writers our job is the opposite, to create tension… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
