The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning. — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama. — John Michael Higgins Copy Share Image
I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie. — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“Please don't tell me to relax it's only my tension that's holding me together.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a leisure about walking, no matter what pace you set, that lets down the tension. — Hal Borland 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
There was enough tension in the room to send a fleet of the nervous running for their tranquilizers. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
'I Spy' represents the absence of the tension of the black man or black woman or anyone of that color walking in,… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
America should be cooling down the tensions in the internet, making it a more trusted environment, making it a more secure environment,… — Edward Snowden 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
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
What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The desire for perfect release and the real-world impossibility of perfect, whenever-you-want-it release had together produced a tension they could no longer… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form… — Ann Macbeth Copy Share Image
Hollywood doesn't trust me, and we don't really mix. When a movie has stars, everything in the budget goes up, even the… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
The result was the same as tuning down the strings by a semitone and using a capo at the first fret. With… — Tal Farlow Copy Share Image
“my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together. the pain over my heart returns, and from it i imagine… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to… — Theodor Adorno 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
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 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
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
“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
I think that the global consciousness concerning all those elements that produce tension, fractions of societies, is changing in the sense that… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
Every time I try to disown that concept for myself, which is a really healthy perspective, they bring it back all the… — Gavin Rossdale Copy Share Image
“History is one long chain of reflections. Hegel also indicated certain rules that apply for this chain of reflections. Anyone studying history… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
I didn’t tell him. He found out. Basically, he caught me coming in after the last time you and I saw each… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
Psychiatrists declare that most of our fatigue derives from our mental and emotional attitudes... What kinds of emotional factors tire the sedentary… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“Steel tempered by fire,” she said aloud, without thinking. “Am I?” he asked. She smiled sadly. “Aren’t you?” He let out a… — Diana Palmer 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
