Tensions Quotes
110 quotes by 94 authors
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I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.
— Antonin Scalia
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Why is so much sex needed? Because you are tense, sex becomes a release. Your tensions are released through it - you feel relaxed, you…
— Rajneesh
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It is my dream that the entire Tibetan plateau should become a free refuge where humanity and nature can live in peace and in harmonious…
— Dalai Lama
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It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange.
— Gregory Crewdson
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When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement…
— Andrea Mitchell
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The easiest way to make something cool is to get cool people to do it. Part of this might mean the president has to forget…
— Denis Hayes
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I was literally singing to myself on my way home, after the killing. The tension, the desire to kill a woman had built up in…
— David Berkowitz
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With Climate Change as a Security Risk, WBGU has compiled a flagship report on an issue that quite rightly is rising rapidly up the international…
— Achim Steiner
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Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent racism, the sexual…
— Eric Fischl
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The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning. But…
— Sugata Mitra
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We must do what we can to reduce, not increase, tensions. We must do what we can to present only the facts as we know…
— Percy Spender
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The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions and then living…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Woven through Timothy J. Clark’s paintings are unique combinations of visual and emotional stimuli.His sense of space, light and composition combine to create graphic tensions…
— Will Barnet
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Most of conflicts and tensions are due to language. Don't pay so much attention to the words. In love’s country, language doesn't have its place.…
— Shams Tabrizi
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Theatre remains the only thing I understand. It is in the community of theatre that I have my being. In spite of jealousies and fears,…
— Robert Helpmann
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When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it…
— Mort Walker
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My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual creativity and emotion, freeing the…
— Moshe Feldenkrais
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This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative…
— Paul Brunton
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By 2040, the Sahara will be moving into Europe and Berlin will be as hot as Baghdad. Atlanta will end up a kudzu jungle. Phoenix…
— James Lovelock
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Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living…
— Karl Jaspers
Who Wrote These Tensions Quotes
94 authors contributed a total of 110 Tensions Quotes, led by these top contributors: