by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Black children, white children, Latino children. America is becoming more diverse, it's becoming more tolerant as a consequence there's more interactions between… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
America has exercised its power to insist on elections in Palestine, which Hamas did win. Once they won, we then engaged in… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I like people a lot, but I am not comfortable in literary New York situations. There is deep anxiety and tension around… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
I had true rivalries. Not only did I want to beat my opponent, but I didn't want to let him up, either.… — Jimmy Connors Copy Share Image
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Meditation is unfocussed mind, you simply listen silently, not with a tension in the mind, not with an urge to know and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I have a group of very loyal people. We are in the minority very much, basically 10 to 15% of the population… — Ilya Ponomarev Copy Share Image
It's not what I want, Trish. It's what you want. It's what you need. And even though we're opponents tonight in the… — Chris Jericho Copy Share Image
You can learn from an ordinary bamboo leaf what ought to happen. It bends lower and lower under the weight of snow.… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
My book in a nutshell is about the deleterious effects of patriarchy down through the ages for women and for men and… — Carolyn Custis James Copy Share Image
The tension to mother the "right" way can leave a peculiar silence within mother daughter relationships--the silence of a mother'sown truth and… — Elizabeth Debold Copy Share Image
The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
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The difference between what all the people can do individually and the global consumption of nonrenewable resources is huge. The tension is...… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature and then science-fiction televised shows or movies,… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
I would say I am at peace with the mystery of my mother's journals. Of course, I will always wonder, but isn't… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The easiest way to make something cool is to get cool people to do it. Part of this might mean the president… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
It's his show and I'm just trying to make him look good. If we were the same age there might be a… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
If the pressure is getting to you, whistle. In a barely audible way. It's the best way I know of to let… — Fuzzy Zoeller Copy Share Image
If you're in a Republican district that is leery of President [Donald] Trump,then, you might feel a little bit more exposed.Of course,… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
If you turn the heat down on the relationship, she will soften, the tension will lessen, and she will eventually inch closer… — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
I think people are at their most creative when they're relaxed. I don't believe that tension is good for creativity. Everyone is… — Joe Wright Copy Share Image
It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
When I had just started 'Cheers,' my nerves were ajangle, to put it mildly. I was absolutely terrified. What you're learning is… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
We've been in a period of relative stability and cooperation since the end of the Cold War among the world's major powers,… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
No single tradition monopolizes the truth. We must glean the best values of all traditions and work together to remove the tensions… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life,… — Richard Condon Copy Share Image
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Art is constant tension and release. That is where artists live, between the two, or at times, submerged in either. The challenge… — Dave Liebman Copy Share Image
In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
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This whole electric universe is a complex maze of similar tensions. Every particle of matter in the universe is separated from its… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
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