Tension Quotes · Page 8

“He could stop anytime. That’s what he kept telling himself.”

— Valon G

The urge to gain release from tension by action is a precipitating cause of war.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good

— Albert Einstein

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

— Murray Walker

“All this sexual tension is making me sweat.”

— T.J. Robinson

Some music will make you dance. Other music helps you release tension.

— Donovan

“Love can be simply the absence of tension.”

— Will Advise

Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.

— Rex Brandt

The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life…

— Anatole Broyard

Most people engage in activities that are tension-relieving rather than goal-achieving.

— Brian Tracy

...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.

— Ian Fleming

In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you…

— Andy Stanley

I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the…

— Andy Goldsworthy

There's always that little bit of tension that happens when you make a joke, especially when there's a language barrier.

— Desi Lydic

I am a storyteller and a researcher, and I'm sorry the world has a hard time straddling the tension of those two…

— Brené Brown

The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern…

— Harold Rosenberg

There is something about dance that is actually a great tension. There is something that is incredibly freeing about dancing for dancers…

— George Nolfi

[The tension] between the Christians and Muslims goes back to the Crusades, doesn't it? It's too easy to blame everything on one…

— Mickey Rourke

Find moments in your life in which you had communication with people. You will see that most of our tensions, disappointments ,…

— Torkom Saraydarian

Each email contains an unsubscribe link. We will NEVER sell, rent, loan, or abuse your email address in ANY way. One way…

— Byron Nelson

I've consciously taken on material that's a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances.…

— Ben Affleck

I am, in fact, the complete anti-Messiah, and detest converts almost as much as I detest missionaries. My writings, such as they…

— H. L. Mencken

I've written a number of songs over the years and it's a big part of my life, this sort of tension between…

— James Taylor

I actually find something rewarding about that tension between satisfying myself and satisfying others. Because first of all, I can't provide my…

— Andy Richter

The walk is like a matrix, like a diffuse, vague happening. It's like - imagine a play, a work of theatre, that…

— Sergio Chejfec

In our country [US] equality means your liberal and freedom means you're conservative. That tension is there and it can't be handled…

— Francis George

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings,…

— Joshua L. Liebman

Not to say that the process assumes anything of "greater" or "lesser" importance, though: it's just more graphic information. Take the surrealists,…

— Sergio Chejfec

The body is a reservoir of all sorts of tensions and dark forces. And it's also the potential source of amazing energy.…

— Bill T. Jones

Millions of people have tried meditation and dropped out of it because they took it very seriously. Religion has been thought to…

— Anonymous

Relaxation means allowing yourself to fall into a state where you are not doing anything, because if you are doing something, tension…

— Rajneesh

As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does…

— C. Wright Mills

“tension and intensity are two different animals.”

— Gerald Elias

“One tapped my ankle and settled there, its label turned up like an accusation.”

— Belinda Kelderhouse

One should never create tension between one's footwear.

— Rachel Caine

In my early England days, there was a bit of tension with captain Nasser Hussain.

— Andrew Flintoff

If we keep bombing other people, that creates more anger. Tensions keep escalating.

— Adam Yauch

“He was acting like our kiss had broken him, and his reaction was breaking me.”

— Shannon A. Thompson

I believe our emotional tension can manifest itself physically.

— Tom Shadyac

Diplomacy is essential if we are to find peaceful resolutions in times of tension.

— Ed Davey