“The suit gave him youth, strength, and hunger. It never promised he would remain himself.” — Valon G Copy Share Image
“I begin to feel this tension when things that doesn't worth attention are the things that attracts attention” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy. — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month? — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
A winner concentrates on that which is goal achieving rather than tension relieving. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release. — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
Film is so much about that intensity of focus that there always needs to be some tension and some forward motion. The… — Lenny Abrahamson Copy Share Image
Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know how some people say that they can only read one story a day from this or that collection? If that's… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
As long as colonialism was allowed to reign and fester in Africa, it was going to be a source of tension, if… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
When we smile, the muscles around our mouth are stretched and relaxed, just like doing yoga. Smiling is mouth yoga. We release… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what happened at… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have… — Larenz Tate Copy Share Image
If I stage things too much and nothing changes in the act of photographing, then I might as well have not taken… — Justine Kurland Copy Share Image
Slowly his resistance ebbed. She felt the change in his body, the relaxing of tension, his shoulders curving around her as if… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
There's a tension in Washington that was undeniable. I could write my name in the air there. — Barry Trotz Copy Share Image
Life is filled with problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. Sometimes it helps to know which is which. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
“To be sure, man’s search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium.” — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits. — John Avlon Copy Share Image
“She walks in like a force of nature wrapped in a tight-fitting pencil skirt, and just like that... my morning unravels.” — Tricia Newlan Copy Share Image
My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving without tension is like a Thanksgiving without turkey. It can be done, but it is not the norm. — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working. — John Singleton Copy Share Image
The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Fasting gives your body time to heal itself. It relieves nervousness and tension and gives your digestive system a rest. — Jentezen Franklin Copy Share Image
But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension. — Jacky Ickx Copy Share Image
A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty. — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension. — David Deida Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Guests arrived carrying more than luggage. They brought frustration, uncertainty, exhaustion.” — Belinda Kelderhouse Copy Share Image
