“It was like hacking through a thicket of raw tension whenever we were near each other.” — Jessica Shirvington 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
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
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
The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
The books [and games] that give us the most pleasure combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release. — Peter Turchi Copy Share Image
It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together. — Yvonne Strahovski 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
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
The ability to face constructively the tension of opposing ideas and instead of choosing one at the expense of the other, generate… — Roger Martin 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
The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
There's more tension in golf than in boxing because golfers bring it on themselves. It's silly really because it's not as if… — Henry Cooper 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
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
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
I think that the global consciousness concerning all those elements that produce tension, fractions of societies, is changing in the sense that… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
I am a very good archer. I use archery as my way of meditation. I cannot sit down and just meditate in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We who have been hunted through the rapids of life, torn from our former roots, always driven to the end and obliged… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
If someone was to introduce hope and idealism into our political system, I think the tension that would create in other areas… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Hollywood doesn't trust me, and we don't really mix. When a movie has stars, everything in the budget goes up, even the… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
It doesn't need to be deep and it doesn't need to be a 65-point plan, but just to give some concrete examples… — Amy Walter Copy Share Image
If the room is friendly to a relationship between lecturer and audience, you feel everything - the tension, the appreciation. I think… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working. — John Singleton 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
Thanksgiving without tension is like a Thanksgiving without turkey. It can be done, but it is not the norm. — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues. — Arthur Levitt Copy Share Image
“Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tensions between the poles of disorder and order.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
There is always tension between the possibilities we aspire to and our wounded memories and past mistakes. — Sean Brady Copy Share Image
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed. — William James Copy Share Image
In business, there are times when you disagree, and sometimes it turns out that you're just plain wrong. Humor takes away tension… — Craig Newmark Copy Share Image
The tension between the Capulets and the Montagues is like a gang rivalry, and that has everything to do with Compton. — Corey Hawkins Copy Share Image
To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive. — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together. — JR Copy Share Image
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