If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is… — Theodore E. Steinway Copy Share Image
America has to stand by our allies. I think the tension that existed between Israel and the United States was very unfortunate. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
I began getting these terrible headaches and I thought 'Oh great, death.' But it was just tension and tiredness. — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
Actually, there was a lot of tension, a lot of friction going on while we were together with Island. — Sisqo Copy Share Image
I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
In tension you cannot perceive; in laxity you cannot perceive. Only if you are intense and relaxed, you perceive everything just the… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
there’s too much tension in the world… what hope is there in the middle east if you and i can’t make peace. — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
But lots of emerging racial tensions in California have nothing to do with whites: Filipinos and Samoans are fighting it out in… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“Desire is easiest to control when it believes it is choosing freely. Gabriel told himself he could stop. Lucian told himself he… — Valon G Copy Share Image
Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
There is a tension between our desire to get our kids to turn out a particular way versus letting them develop to… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
He can be regarded as the great master of simplification. The art of resolving the tension at the critical moment and in… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
America's real plan is to fuel a civil war, while the national plan is for all Lebanese to live in peace with… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
I used to think that one day I'd be able to resolve the different drives I have in different directions, the tensions… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
“We who have been hunted through the rapids of life, torn from our former roots, always driven to the end and obliged… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am a very good archer. I use archery as my way of meditation. I cannot sit down and just meditate in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
My theory for nonfiction is that nobody can be free of some kind of conceptions about whatever story they're writing. But if… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I buy a tractor two years ago, and four-fifths of the tractor manual is about not tipping over, not raising the bucket… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
My mother's people, the people who captured my imagination when I was growing up, were of the Deep South - emotional, changeable,… — Willie Morris Copy Share Image
I needed to create some dramatic tension to sustain the interest of the audience. For instance, the boy in the film is… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
Unfulfilled dreams, ongoing relational tension, the loss of friendships, a hard marriage, rebellious teenagers, the death of loved ones, remaining sinful patterns… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
“Beauty comes from tension: between order and disorder, simplicity and complexity.” — Stefan Klein Copy Share Image
It's tough when you don't talk to somebody, there's tension, and it shows. — Steve Harwell Copy Share Image
