If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
With Climate Change as a Security Risk, WBGU has compiled a flagship report on an issue that quite rightly is rising rapidly… — Achim Steiner Copy Share Image
When it does get below freezing and there is - it's cold enough for ice to form, then that changes the whole… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“Some desires do not arrive violently. They settle quietly into the body until they begin speaking with your own voice.” — Valon G Copy Share Image
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed. — William James Copy Share Image
Smile, smile , smile At your mind As often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce Your mind's tearing tension. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There's such a deep, conservative feeling in 'The way Back.' You go, 'gosh, we've gotten narrow.' So at the moment I think… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
Literature gives us models of living human beings who may not agree with us and even be our enemies. D. H. Lawrence… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I like to play the grey areas in life - that's the most uncomfortable place to be. Nobody likes to be in… — Melanie Lynskey Copy Share Image
As a general rule, no one should ever be allowed to say there is no history of racial tension here, because that… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
I'm not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there's a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important. — George Zebrowski Copy Share Image
When I had just started 'Cheers,' my nerves were ajangle, to put it mildly. I was absolutely terrified. What you're learning is… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
In my early England days, there was a bit of tension with captain Nasser Hussain. — Andrew Flintoff Copy Share Image
White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
