Tensions Quotes

110 quotes by 91 authors

Those final weeks, spanning end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of each other had… — Truman Capote
Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed — E F Schumacher
Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance. — Benjamin Franklin
Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace. — Pope Paul VI
The body is a reservoir of all sorts of tensions and dark forces. And it's also the potential source of amazing energy. This thing wants… — Bill T. Jones
When I was very young, my background as a Sikh-American made me aware of the tensions that underlie choice. — Sheena Iyengar
The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry tensions,… — Peter Abrahams
Ethnic divisions can definitely be exacerbated by a lack of natural resources, but those tensions become violent when people manipulate them for their own political… — Dinaw Mengestu
What made al Qaeda retrieve the doctrine of militant jihad, and Breivik the ideas of crusade and reconquest, is a sense of siege. So, we… — Mustafa Akyol
Economists love to talk about incentives, but the bottom line is that people hate being controlled or manipulated, even when done through voluntary institutions. This… — Tyler Cowen
Not all political actors share our vision of fighting terrorism, lessening tensions in the region and focusing on building the economy. It is natural that… — Asif Ali Zardari
Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble. — Craig Brown
We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never be complete, for… — Drew Gilpin Faust
Tensions exist in any free society. But the freedom we enjoy rests on a foundation of individual liberty and shared moral values. — Tipper Gore
Everywhere in the world there are tensions - economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate. — Alain Ducasse
I urge the citizens of Ferguson who have been peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights to join with law enforcement in condemning the actions of… — Eric Holder
While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns,… — Barack Obama
In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city… — Barack Obama
In the World Cup, much depends for every team on how it develops during the tournament. There are always rising tensions. They come from within,… — Franz Beckenbauer
Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously. — Lester B. Pearson

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