It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
There's a huge number of things that are occurring with the ice works which fascinate me enormously, but it's driven by this… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I needed to create some dramatic tension to sustain the interest of the audience. For instance, the boy in the film is… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
I think that most of my books are part of some process of self-education, often about the places I go to. Most… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin… — Nhat Hanh 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 pressure we put on ourselves to produce this perfect... operatic... version of ourselves really puts an inordinate amount of stress and… — Shefali Tsabary Copy Share Image
My understanding – of course, I’m not a philosopher or a scientist – of an aspect of Goethe’s theory of color is… — Alex Webb Copy Share Image
“The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I can only hope that Trump comes to realize the grave dangers of adopting a policy of confrontation toward Iran. Among these… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
I think one of my favorite pieces I've ever done on the show which was about Hezbollah Israel conflict in 2006 and… — Aasif Mandvi Copy Share Image
There is a tendency in my work toward minimalism, in terms of stripping away the unnecessary. I am seeking a tightly ordered… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a… — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Copy Share Image
“People are bound to remain anxious if there is a "should" in life. If there is an ideal that has to be… — osho Copy Share Image
In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
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
I'd sort of gone through some sort of spiritual change in the late 70s where I sort of saw there was some… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
