Something I keep coming back to in my music is the tension between two extremes: healing and chaos, hope and anxiety -… — Arca Copy Share Image
Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Whenever there is injustice, there is tension. But in China it is very hard to release your anger unless you burn yourself… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Creative tension is constructive. Its purpose is to bring out the very best in management so that senior executives can generate the… — Punit Renjen Copy Share Image
“He knew that he was caught up in one of those stretches of time when for anything to happen normally would be… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Nondiscrimination is a great American principle. It's a core American principle, as is religious freedom. When you have two important American principles… — Charles Haynes Copy Share Image
Some day there is going to be a man sitting in my present chair who has not been raised in the military… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
When you're angry, you can't fight rationally. Your body chemistry is all messed up. Your energy goes to all the wrong places.… — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
“Milla put her hands on his ribs, holding on as he braced his weight on one arm while with his other hand… — Linda Howard Copy Share Image
When we accept Christ we enter into three new relationships: (1) We enter into a new relationship with God. The judge becomes… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
Whenever you drop something by fight, it is never dropped. You can drop smoking by fighting, and then you will start doing… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplished by deadening a part of the… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
Samadhi means when sushupti, dreamless sleep, becomes alert, awake. When you are asleep as far as the body is concerned, you are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The tension of opposites: Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are… — Morrie Schwartz Copy Share Image
I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Heather A. Slomski's stories are downright addictive. I kept promising myself to turn off the light after just one more, and then… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
Small quarrels and tensions were expected because of our new environment. Every relationship has them. Each quarrel was soon forgotten and floated… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
And then they were kissing. Something exploded within his chest burning away the tension and confusion and fear. Burning away the hurt… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
My own view, for what it's worth, is that sexuality is lovely, there cannot be too much of it, it is self-limiting… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
The Battle of Waterloo is a work of art with tension and drama with its unceasing change from hope to fear and… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
When I do only images, people don't connect with the images because the images are too weird to understand. But when I… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
I think there is too much wrong with the world to ever get too relaxed and happy. The more natural state, and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Woven through Timothy J. Clark’s paintings are unique combinations of visual and emotional stimuli.His sense of space, light and composition combine to… — Will Barnet Copy Share Image
The planet isn't improvising, it's creating dynamic tensions between complex living systems in a planetary choreography, a balancing act between physical, chemical,… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Many have questioned the quality of this sort of achievement, deploring the use of pitons, tension traverses and expansion bolts, but the… — Allen Steck Copy Share Image
People want the tragedy. They need things to go wrong, they need the tension. In my characters there’s a core of trust… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
For me it's about creating and sustaining tension for as long as possible, and I'm not generally interested in allowing that tension… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Coming from bad results, you have more tension and you get more into the game, maybe. You never know which is best.… — Tito Vilanova Copy Share Image
The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
He [Wilhelm Reich] believed that the individual's walk, stance, and breath patterns revealed a specific character type. Reich thought chronic muscular tension… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
If you're a politician it's very useful to say that we can have economic growth and at the same time green the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Are they moved by a sense of human need for silence, for reflection, for inner seeking? So they want to get away… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A level of anxiety and tension and outright fear that so many people have felt, not only during the recession but during… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
Many problems that challenge us today can be traced back to a profound tension between what is good and desirable for society… — Martin Nowak Copy Share Image