Tension Quotes

678 quotes by 561 authors

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting… — Lance Armstrong
When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they… — Russell Baker
One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension faster than anger. — Lewis Black
You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's… — Tony Blair
If you're a fat person - and especially if you're a woman - at all stages of your life you'll get abuse for it, so… — Jo Brand
If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And… — George Burns
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
But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or… — John le Carre
I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available… — John le Carre
To get along with me, don't increase my tension. — Ty Cobb
War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over so many years of erosion… — Queen Noor of Jordan
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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, call for something… — Margaret Meagher
When I am designing, my aim is to create tension and then gradually proceed into quiet. — Jacques Wirtz
You live during the match, and you have strong emotions, but you don't want to get too overexcited. My body's totally flat now. I cannot… — Roger Federer
No single tradition monopolizes the truth. We must glean the best values of all traditions and work together to remove the tensions between traditions in… — Nhat Hanh
You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word as a tension, a hum,… — Annie Dillard
The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites. — Carl Jung
There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in… — Max Lerner
What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life… — Helen Keller

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