Tensions Quotes

110 quotes by 91 authors

It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other… — Ingmar Bergman
America's real plan is to fuel a civil war, while the national plan is for all Lebanese to live in peace with one another. There… — Hassan Nasrallah
What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is… — Sue Monk Kidd
Small quarrels and tensions were expected because of our new environment. Every relationship has them. Each quarrel was soon forgotten and floated away on a… — Craig Stone
To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions.… — Stephen Fry
The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat. — Ralph Fiennes
Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions,… — Hans Hofmann
The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is… — Lawrence M. Krauss
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! — Manuel Puig
Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away. — Peter Tork
The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone. — Naomi Wolf
We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expressions of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves to be a… — Barack Obama
What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a… — Michael Moorcock
When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your… — Anthony de Mello
In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of East and West,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and… — Frank Zappa
Empty canvas. In appearance - really empty, silent, indifferent. Stunned, almost. In effect - full of tensions, with thousand subdued voices, heavy with expectations. A… — Wassily Kandinsky
This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity, because it tries… — Paul Brunton
Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy… — Howard Thurman

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