Tension Between Quotes

77 Tension Between quotes by 72 unique authors

I had true rivalries. Not only did I want to beat my opponent, but I didn't want to let him up, either. I had a… — Jimmy Connors
The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends the bow from… — Reinhold Niebuhr
Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group. — Harold Evans
For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity. — Mahmoud Darwish
In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities. — Guillaume Canet
I think 'Scarface' is a great film, but if you have a character like Tony Montana, you don't identify with him at all. I think… — Jacques Audiard
Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to the category of… — Theodor Adorno
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple… — Marilyn Hacker
The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should… — Marilyn Hacker
A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the implied,… — J. D. McClatchy
Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations. — Rollo May
The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer. — Nadine Gordimer
Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there's a tension between them. A sense of order comes from chaos and contains… — Alfred Brendel
In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and… — Christine Vachon
The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions. — John W. Gardner
It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension… — Henry Louis Gates
The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and… — Angela Davis
Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new… — Henri Nouwen
Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the… — Bruce Springsteen
The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has… — Radhanath Swami
I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of… — Hunter S. Thompson
It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit... No one likes to think of him or herself… — James W. Loewen
Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it. — John Green
It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science. — Carl Sagan
What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct,… — Hans-Georg Gadamer

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