Tension Quotes · Page 11

there’s too much tension in the world… what hope is there in the middle east if you and i can’t make peace.

— Megan McCafferty

Thanks to the football, every time I go out and play, it releases the tension, and you forget about the problems.

— David Silva

We need two homes, a green one and a brown one, a grown one and a built one, two worlds in tension.

— Robert Harbison

The last thing Jews need is to create tension with their best friends. And the last thing Christians need is a renewal…

— Dennis Prager

I began getting these terrible headaches and I thought 'Oh great, death.' But it was just tension and tiredness.

— Roger Allam

Actually, there was a lot of tension, a lot of friction going on while we were together with Island.

— Sisqo

In tension you cannot perceive; in laxity you cannot perceive. Only if you are intense and relaxed, you perceive everything just the…

— Jaggi Vasudev

I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.

— Edwidge Danticat

The best marriages, like the best lives, were both happy and unhappy. There was even a kind of necessary tension, a certain…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep,…

— Russell Baker

There's a famous tension between Green Lantern and Green Arrow in the comic books. Those guys have always been friends. They started…

— Geoff Johns

I always look at these superhero films, and I see people hurdling towards at a hundred miles per hour, and then they…

— Martin Campbell

The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

I feel constantly the tension of the quarterly cycles, the drive to produce shareowner value at the cost sometimes of customer value…

— Marilyn C. Nelson

In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's…

— Sean Durkin

At one point I felt a tension between objects, their real, physical lives, and the idea of meaning: the physical, material reality…

— Sergio Chejfec

Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

R.G. Belsky's thought-provoking thriller, The Kennedy Connection, introduces us to a smart, witty, and human hero whose quest to find answers about…

— Jan Burke

If we provide employment to people, if we ensure there's food on their plates, if we provide them with facilities and give…

— Narendra Modi

Masturbation is not physically necessary. There is already a way by which the male system relieves excessive spermatic fluid quite regularly through…

— Spencer W. Kimball

His lips never leaving mine. He picked me up keeping me against the wall. His kisses sweet and like drugs. Because I…

— Jade

I have my set rigged with the biggest sound system possible and have a mini jack for my iPod attached to my…

— Alfonso Cuaron

This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity,…

— Paul Brunton

“The tension was slipping away from under his fingers as he touched her, and building everywhere else. A kind of gathering inside…

— Nora Roberts

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

One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension faster than anger.

— Lewis Black

America has to stand by our allies. I think the tension that existed between Israel and the United States was very unfortunate.

— Mitt Romney

To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to…

— Anne McCaffrey

“Sung Win smiled to himself, enjoying the tension across his shoulders and the way his pulse beat in his veins. All life…

— Conn Iggulden

There was enough tension in the room to send a fleet of the nervous running for their tranquilizers.

— Charlaine Harris

I think it's important that we run that tension between the way things are, in terms of the way we're governed, and…

— Adrian Grenier

Maybe by nature and because of my past I protect myself. The minute I feel any tension I take myself away.

— Georgia Toffolo

There is a leisure about walking, no matter what pace you set, that lets down the tension.

— Hal Borland

Humor can prove to be the conversational lubricant you need to remove the tension from the most unpleasant management- and accountability-related conversations.

— Clay Clark

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

— Peter Tork

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's…

— Bruce Springsteen

The attraction of dating is that you don't take yes for granted - - you're fully engaged, there's seductiveness, tension.

— Esther Perel

I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a…

— Zack de la Rocha

We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.

— Stephen Covey

I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

— Damian Lewis