You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Abedi appears to be one of the many thousands of Western Muslims who have embraced militant Islam, often as a way of… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
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This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Every day, there's that tension and the pressure. Each scene that you shoot is like getting to that next step, but there's… — Abdellatif Kechiche Copy Share Image
In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
When I get ready for a high-profile event, it's really about sleep and making sure I'm eating something healthy, and then it's… — Darby Stanchfield Copy Share Image
I think there's always great tension because there never seems to be enough - there is always pressure. There's always pressure because… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and intellectual, the… — Julian Johnson Copy Share Image
“I start suddenly and lift my head. Bethke too, I see, is sitting up. Even Tjaden is on the alert. The year-old… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“There are prisons made of iron. There are prisons made of velvet. Lucian’s house had no bars, only warmth, taste, money, and… — Valon G Copy Share Image
Hey Mason, wipe the drool off your face. If you're going to think about me naked, do it on your own time."… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
One of the good things is the relationship between director and editor used to be more contentious. Studios used to leave directors… — Michael Sucsy Copy Share Image
Sometimes, from outside, and from America especially, where the racial tension is so intense, you tend to understand Brazil as a kind… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
Be very careful that you do not unconsciously assume that nervous tension is power. This is vital. Watch yourself the next time… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Drawing instruction is a training towards perception, exact observation and exact presentation not of the outward appearances of an object, but of… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible,… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
The criminal-justice system is, obviously, the sole source of racial tension in this country [USA] or the key institution to resolving the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As long as colonialism was allowed to reign and fester in Africa, it was going to be a source of tension, if… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
“Whether we fear the existence of boundaries with others or crave more of them, there’s no denying that individuation and separation are… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We haven't had a recession for 25 years in Australia. It's partly because of our trade with China. China's been doing relatively… — Richard Glover Copy Share Image
I think tension between the intimate and the vast is at the heart of every poem by any poet, though of course… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
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I use to think that the friction was a bad thing. Everything is to ease pain in our society; pain is very… — Jon Foreman 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
People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in… — Henry Reed Copy Share Image
The poet resists the pressures of reality, including the pressures of violence, in making, in forming, the poem. The tension is in… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I'm happy to have a physical part in 'High Tension,' in 'Hereafter,' and in a lot of French movies and Belgian movies.… — Cecile de France Copy Share Image
Between men and women, all the time there is tension. I feel it. A woman walks down the street, and I'm going… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
If you can hold the tension of opposite points of view in your intimate relationships with people, instead of making somebody right… — Connie Zweig Copy Share Image
Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life,… — Margaret Meagher Copy Share Image
All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
I think that we live in a remarkably networked world. The problem with that, of course, is that tensions can travel in… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
There's a tricky tone where you try to get some humor into a movie that's also a tough tale of murder and… — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
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