There's always that little bit of tension that happens when you make a joke, especially when there's a language barrier. — Desi Lydic Copy Share Image
The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
There are areas of tension and uncertainty the Constitution doesn't address, and presidents of both parties have fought with Congress over their… — Maya Wiley Copy Share Image
My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
When I am designing, my aim is to create tension and then gradually proceed into quiet. — Jacques Wirtz Copy Share Image
With scale, there always becomes this tension of, how do you keep the start-up philosophy? — Patrick Pichette 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
What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp,… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Is it just me, or did 2019 feel like an endless fight? Tension over Brexit and climate-change protests trickled down into our… — Susanna Reid Copy Share Image
When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
My mom let me kind of run free and be rowdy. She encouraged it. I'm a youngest child. So I was spazzy… — Andy Samberg Copy Share Image
A person comes home with all the tension of his life, he or she is totally drained due to all the stress… — Rakhi Sawant Copy Share Image
I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences,… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
“Steel tempered by fire,” she said aloud, without thinking. “Am I?” he asked. She smiled sadly. “Aren’t you?” He let out a… — Diana Palmer Copy Share Image
Clifford paints true-to-life characters with the same gritty touch as the best of Dennis Lehane. Straightforward and edgy, Lamentation gnaws with nail-biting… — Robert Dugoni Copy Share Image
Massage's history is rooted in technique and body knowledge, but is also about heart, healing intention and connection between therapist and client.… — Bob Benson Copy Share Image
“You noticed something was off Saturday night, didn’t you? I mean, outside of the fact that there was a stupid dark fae… — Alyse M. Gardner Copy Share Image
Think about how many of us have wondered why we don't fit, why our faith doesn't stabilize us, why we seem so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In positive terms, we can state that psychological maturity entails finding greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving; having a capacity to… — William C. Menninger Copy Share Image
And I've been waiting for you, because I couldn't do anything else. And we've both known that we would meet again, and… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
Do things with your whole heart, with as much intensity as you are capable of. Anything done halfheartedly never brings joy to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
By letting go of yourself, leaving yourself and everything yours behind so decisively that nothing more is left of you but a… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Youth returned to him like a miracle. But miracles are never free. They arrive smiling, then begin counting what they are owed.” — Valon G Copy Share Image
“If you create an environment of conflicts, I don’t think you will enjoy peace yourself.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed — Anonymous Copy Share Image
3 nice thoughts : Kill the tension before the tension kills you Reach your goal before the goal kicks you LIVE LIFE… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes heckling can almost help a set, because it ratchets up the tension in the room... can even bring things to a… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life. — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
“S/M is about emotion, the erotic tension between my impulse toward something and my resistance against it.” — Virginia Baker Copy Share Image
“Just because someone says he'll see you at midnight doesn't mean you're automatically bound to hug him when you've barely shaken hands… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
When you feel the tension mounting,and cross the busy day Only gloomy clouds are drifting,as you start to worry-pray!! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The 'Moonlighting' tension of the couple that obviously never can get together, there's an innate sort of fun and tension in that. — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
Eating chocolate can have significant influences on mood, generally leading to an increase in pleasant feelings and a reduction in tension. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It really helps if you've got something like cycling, walking, running or swimming that can let your body release all that tension… — Paul Rankin Copy Share Image