Thanksgiving without tension is like a Thanksgiving without turkey. It can be done, but it is not the norm. — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have… — Judith Stone Copy Share Image
The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
The tension between Stephen's atheistic stance and my faith always existed, but neither of us tried to convert the other. I am… — Jane Hawking Copy Share Image
The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it… — Marlene Dumas 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
Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent,… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If… — Peter Farrelly Copy Share Image
Santangelo is irritated. "We're not suppose to be collaborating. It's supposed to be a war and you're supposed to stick to the… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
For me, a lot of my work has dealt with what it means to be at the center of the universe and… — Marco Brambilla Copy Share Image
Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I am a kite in a tornado but I have a long string. There is tension in my line. Somewhere, someone is… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
By god, DH Lawrence was right when he said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
Tension translates to your guests. They'll have a much better time having chili and baked potatoes than they would if you did… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
I think my pictures are really about a kind of tension between my need to make a perfect picture and the impossibility… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
You have nothing to lose. All that you can lose is your tension and your worry, your little-mindedness, fear, and anxiety. And… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Of course, an exhausting day at sail lines and nets left little energy to expend on running or laughing. Perhaps that was… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Whatever you are doing, if there is contentment and a feeling that this whole existence is nothing but the manifestation of godliness,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The Warrior of the Light knows that it is impossible to live in a state of complete relaxation. He has learned from… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Walking uplifts the spirit. Breathe out the poisons of tension, stress, and worry; breathe in the power of God. Send forth little… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over so many… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
Washington's adventuristic policy, whipping up international tension to the utmost, is pushing mankind towards nuclear catastrophe. — Konstantin Chernenko Copy Share Image
It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over. — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact. — Lyndon B. Johnson 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
We like to keep the sexual tension underplayed, especially between the Smoking Man and me. Once we thought he was my father… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“. . . Most falls aren't free -- there is always the tension, it seems to me, between what you are falling… — Peter Pouncey 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
Most of conflicts and tensions are due to language. Don't pay so much attention to the words. In love’s country, language doesn't… — Shams Tabrizi Copy Share Image
The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tension. As writers our job is the opposite, to create tension… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
I did not like 'The Hurt Locker.' It's a lazy way to make a movie, frankly. I could put you on the… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The problem is, if at all, in the different view of the economy, of economic growth. Growth is too low, even for… — Paolo Gentiloni Copy Share Image
My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
We must do what we can to reduce, not increase, tensions. We must do what we can to present only the facts… — Percy Spender Copy Share Image
We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
