For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually. — Shirley Manson Copy Share Image
Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maybe by nature and because of my past I protect myself. The minute I feel any tension I take myself away. — Georgia Toffolo Copy Share Image
“Sung Win smiled to himself, enjoying the tension across his shoulders and the way his pulse beat in his veins. All life… — Conn Iggulden Copy Share Image
There was enough tension in the room to send a fleet of the nervous running for their tranquilizers. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
The sexuality of children - there's a lot friction there. That tension interests me a lot. — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The 'Moonlighting' tension of the couple that obviously never can get together, there's an innate sort of fun and tension in that. — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
Eating chocolate can have significant influences on mood, generally leading to an increase in pleasant feelings and a reduction in tension. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It really helps if you've got something like cycling, walking, running or swimming that can let your body release all that tension… — Paul Rankin Copy Share Image
What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“When Louis relaxed, it was an indication that a threat was at hand and he was preparing to act, as when an… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
I like to play the grey areas in life - that's the most uncomfortable place to be. Nobody likes to be in… — Melanie Lynskey Copy Share Image
I understood that the teacher was not eing dismissive, that the problem would be addressed. But, without extra upset. A noncombative response,… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word as a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is… — Jessica Helfand Copy Share Image
Do things with your whole heart, with as much intensity as you are capable of. Anything done halfheartedly never brings joy to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
And I've been waiting for you, because I couldn't do anything else. And we've both known that we would meet again, and… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
The mind is a very intricate machine. It can store memories, past impressions, grudges, criticisms, judgments. It can hold a lot of… — MC Yogi Copy Share Image
From the beginning, there has been a tension in the reception of the Kantian idea of autonomy. If you emphasize the 'nomos'… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are… — Gerolamo Cardano Copy Share Image
Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The Hawk and the Dove is a wonderful idea for a book, wonderfully carried out. Nicholas Thompson has used illuminating new material… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
Writing is alchemy. Dross becomes gold. Experience is transformed. Pain is changed. Suffering may become song. The ordinary or horrible is pushed… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We need some creative tension; people crying out for the things they want. — John Lewis Copy Share Image
