Tension Quotes · Page 10

Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy.

— Peter Rollins

What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month?

— Doris Lessing

A winner concentrates on that which is goal achieving rather than tension relieving.

— Denis Waitley

“Never forget to keep tension here,” he says in a quiet voice.”

— Veronica Roth

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

— Georg Simmel

There's a tension in Washington that was undeniable. I could write my name in the air there.

— Barry Trotz

Life is filled with problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. Sometimes it helps to know which is which.

— Andy Stanley

“To be sure, man’s search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

Film is so much about that intensity of focus that there always needs to be some tension and some forward motion. The…

— Lenny Abrahamson

Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in…

— Anonymous

I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the…

— Albert Camus

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

— Harold Rosenberg

My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness…

— Hayden Carruth

There are areas of tension and uncertainty the Constitution doesn't address, and presidents of both parties have fought with Congress over their…

— Maya Wiley

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

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Breathe," he ordered gently. "Once more time. Now, reassure me that's not panic." "Not really. No." "Talk to me, Eva." "I just..."…

— Sylvia Day

The criminal-justice system is, obviously, the sole source of racial tension in this country [USA] or the key institution to resolving the…

— Barack Obama

This one's like that because it's about these things that I think weigh heavily on me in terms of my own failings…

— Scott Snyder

As long as colonialism was allowed to reign and fester in Africa, it was going to be a source of tension, if…

— Gerald Horne

When we smile, the muscles around our mouth are stretched and relaxed, just like doing yoga. Smiling is mouth yoga. We release…

— Nhat Hanh

When you squeeze an orange, you'll always get orange juice to come out. What comes out is what's inside. The same logic…

— Anonymous

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of…

— Tony Blair

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

— John Avlon

“She walks in like a force of nature wrapped in a tight-fitting pencil skirt, and just like that... my morning unravels.”

— Tricia Newlan

My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.

— Edgar Bronfman, Sr

Thanksgiving without tension is like a Thanksgiving without turkey. It can be done, but it is not the norm.

— Mary Schmich

I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working.

— John Singleton

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

— Donovan

The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.

— Clay Shirky

Fasting gives your body time to heal itself. It relieves nervousness and tension and gives your digestive system a rest.

— Jentezen Franklin

But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.

— Jacky Ickx

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.

— Russell Kirk

Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.

— David Deida

A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain…The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.

— Jack Vance

“Guests arrived carrying more than luggage. They brought frustration, uncertainty, exhaustion.”

— Belinda Kelderhouse

The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.

— Terence McKenna

Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing.

— Brice Marden

“Good tension. Bad tension. I wasn't sure if there was a difference when it came to Donovan.”

— Laurelin Paige