“Most of us plateau when we lose the tension between where we are and where we ought to be.” — John Gardiner Copy Share Image
Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide. — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
“There was more tension back at the parking lot than a southern woman’s girdle at a bake sale.” — Stacey Marie Brown Copy Share Image
To follow Jesus doesn't remove us from the stuff of life. It is not resolution. It is tension and journey. — Crowder Copy Share Image
Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
A tension or difficulty can signal the approach of a new grace of God. But it has to be looked at wisely… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
When I'm speaking on stage I feel my most empowered and my most vulnerable. So much could go wrong. That tension is… — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
There was a lot of tension between my dad and his mother and brothers. Sometimes when I was over there, I remember… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
People are weird. We do live on all levels at the same time and you can be fighting and flirting, and there… — Alice Eve Copy Share Image
There's always a tension in my world between the pragmatic and the practical and the theoretical. I have a very theoretical turn… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally… — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form… — Ann Macbeth Copy Share Image
Maybe what life needs is a good soundtrack, especially during the long stretches when nothing interesting is being said. A soundtrack might… — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
He can be regarded as the great master of simplification. The art of resolving the tension at the critical moment and in… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
America's real plan is to fuel a civil war, while the national plan is for all Lebanese to live in peace with… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
“Relaxing the shoulders is vital for relaxation in general. However, owing to the effects of gravity, relaxation is problematic unless we let… — H.E. Davey Copy Share Image
I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that… — Nadine Gordimer 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
“He threw her a crooked grin as he removed his shirt completely, revealing a torso that seemed too perfectly muscular and finely… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a… — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Copy Share Image
Because we didn't cooperate with China, we gave them motivation to develop their own capability. You know, they developed a very capable… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
But compassion is a deeper thing that waits beyond the tension of choosing sides. Compassion, in practice, does not require us to… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Anyone can do shock value. Develop enough tension and cue the music right, then have something jump out: It's almost impossible not… — Daniel Myrick Copy Share Image
The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress. — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
I used to think that one day I'd be able to resolve the different drives I have in different directions, the tensions… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
“Desire is easiest to control when it believes it is choosing freely. Gabriel told himself he could stop. Lucian told himself he… — Valon G Copy Share Image
But lots of emerging racial tensions in California have nothing to do with whites: Filipinos and Samoans are fighting it out in… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
There is a tension between our desire to get our kids to turn out a particular way versus letting them develop to… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage… — Leonard Orr Copy Share Image
The result was the same as tuning down the strings by a semitone and using a capo at the first fret. With… — Tal Farlow Copy Share Image
“my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together. the pain over my heart returns, and from it i imagine… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
America should be cooling down the tensions in the internet, making it a more trusted environment, making it a more secure environment,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The tension between what is, and what we dream of, is important. Not to discount what we have, but to hold onto… — Susan Branch Copy Share Image
'I Spy' represents the absence of the tension of the black man or black woman or anyone of that color walking in,… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
You can do really slow movements with it, like zooming in for a minute and a half. The audience isn't aware that… — Mike Figgis Copy Share Image
The tension I feel is the moment they say, 'Action!' Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
