Tension Quotes

678 Tension quotes by 537 unique authors

There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that when I try… — Alice Munro
Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal… — Rick Warren
I use to think that the friction was a bad thing. Everything is to ease pain in our society; pain is very much the enemy.… — Jon Foreman
I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up. — Matt LeBlanc
No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean and… — Marlene Dumas
Drawing instruction is a training towards perception, exact observation and exact presentation not of the outward appearances of an object, but of its constructive elements,… — Wassily Kandinsky
Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in many… — Richard L. Evans
Be modest in your wants...There is nothing that will cause greater tensions in marriage than grinding debt, which will make of you a slave to… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Such is the nature of an expatriate life. Stripped of romance, perhaps that's what being an expat is all about: a sense of not wholly… — Sarah Turnbull
There's always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live... Every morning I wake up with a new wrath,… — Ingmar Bergman
I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contemporary man. — Pope Benedict XVI
People loose tension when they run. The feeling of self respect will almost always increase. You accept yourself a little more. — Ted Corbitt
I am not afraid to appear in Israel, although when I come to a place like Israel, I know it's not a picnic by the… — Ian Anderson
This whole electric universe is a complex maze of similar tensions. Every particle of matter in the universe is separated from its condition of oneness,… — Walter Russell
My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel… — Madeleine Stowe
We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition partners in Iraq,… — Michael K. Simpson
Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important. — George Zebrowski
I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches… — Jen Hatmaker
Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom. — Wally Schirra
I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. We can know… — Byron Katie
The one arm one leg pushup is an exercise in total body tension — Pavel Tsatsouline
Activities are a real blessing to a family. They provide a way to have fun together, relieve tensions, and develop relationships on new levels with… — Gene R. Cook
Crying, that is, sobbing is the earliest and deepest way to release tension. Infants can cry almost from the moment of birth, and do so… — Alexander Lowen
Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something… — Annabelle Selldorf
Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the formal aspects of… — Shahzia Sikander

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