Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
There is a leisure about walking, no matter what pace you set, that lets down the tension. — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is… — Theodore E. Steinway Copy Share Image
The health benefits, both mental and physical, of humor are well documented. A good laugh can diffuse tension, relieve stress, and release… — Cherie Carter-Scott Copy Share Image
All your clear and pleasing sentences will fall apart if you don't keep remembering that writing is linear and sequential, that logic… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the… — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
I've written a number of songs over the years and it's a big part of my life, this sort of tension between… — James Taylor 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
I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
There is no knowing beyond that membrane, the meniscus of death. What can be seen from here is distorted, refracted. All we… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
When there is tension, arguments and money problems, it's tough to do your work. Some people thrive on that. I don't. — Richard Jenkins Copy Share Image
I was talking to a friend of mine who's a teacher in Iowa and, you know, she teaches kids - English is… — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
Whenever there is injustice, there is tension. But in China it is very hard to release your anger unless you burn yourself… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
If Trump were to go ahead with a renewed policy of hostility toward Iran, it would immediately raise tensions, and could quickly… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Sports like baseball or baseball are easy to dramatise, because all of them have a pause and that helps with the tension.… — Carlos Cuaron Copy Share Image
We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
There's always a tension between wanting to write a really concise, instant gratification type song that gets under your skin the first… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Do you agree that when theres tension and an obsession to want to hit the ball is when you hit it worst?… — Enrique Pena Nieto 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
God uses the tension, complexity, and challenge of doing His kingdom work to transform us into champions. — Christine Caine Copy Share Image
To be a great teacher, you can't simply be looking at how to earn your income. And with a priest or spiritual… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have always… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
We need two homes, a green one and a brown one, a grown one and a built one, two worlds in tension. — Robert Harbison Copy Share Image
