Tension Quotes

The desire for perfect release and the real-world impossibility of perfect, whenever-you-want-it release had together produced a tension they could no longer stand.

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

I don't want to have so much humor [in films] that it undermines the jeopardy, but enough to sometime relieve tension.

Once people start to think they've wasted parts of their life, or they're wasting their life as they speak, that means there's going to be great dramatic and comedic tension.

A winner concentrates on that which is goal achieving rather than tension relieving.

The last thing Jews need is to create tension with their best friends. And the last thing Christians need is a renewal of Christian hatred toward Jesus' people.

Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go.

When I was a kid, I was like everyone else: afraid of getting nuked. We had drills in school - Sweden was very close to the Soviet Union. There was definitely a lot of tension.

What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month?

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.

I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.

Brooklyn has become a brand, and it represents something, and there is this tension between the old and new world.

A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

Feel that the energy of your willpower can easily deflect tension-causing feelings and frustrations that are directed towards you from the outside world.

In times of stress drawing is a way of relieving tension.

Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.

Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.

Well you found us strength and solutions but I liked the tension And not always knowing the answers when you're gonna lose it, you're gonna lose it.

The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.

There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.

History is where tensions were.

Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information.

My breathing begins to slow. The tension in my muscles starts to relax. Then, a click in the headphones. A slow breath of air. I open my eyes to bright moonlight. And Hannah, with warmth. Thank you.

Oil prices jumped to well over $100 a barrel, and analysts say it's due to tension in the Middle East. So, luckily, it's just a temporary thing.

A tension or difficulty can signal the approach of a new grace of God. But it has to be looked at wisely and humanly.

If only there was a way I could cover my tension with the scent of eau de brass valls instead.

It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?

Karma is the tension of the thread in the human tapestry.

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

Each increase of tension has produced an increase of arms; each increase of arms has produced an increase of tension.

I accept the global complex and global trade more than do some of my liberal colleagues because I consider this a wise alternative to national tension and conflict.

Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.

The idea of The Boy Vs. The Cynic is the tension between the wide-eyed optimism in youthfulness where you think nothing can go wrong, "I've got the world ahead of me. I'm gonna be a go-getter.

I finished The Freebie, which was a small relationship "talky" movie, and I was like, "I just want to get out of the house! And I want there to be some action, and I want some tension in there!"

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.

So much tension around here in New York. They want to fine you for every little thing you do.

Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face.

The poet resists the pressures of reality, including the pressures of violence, in making, in forming, the poem. The tension is in the resistance - the poem is an act of resistance.

Full of thrills and tension - but smart and human too.

When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.

There are other things that contribute to health besides a balanced diet. There are fresh air and sunlight and lack of nervous tension.

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.

Thanksgiving without tension is like a Thanksgiving without turkey. It can be done, but it is not the norm.

I have always been drawn to characters, and this was true for my feature-writing career as well, where there is a tension between rule-breaking and rule-following.

Not knowing what's happening, from script to script, as an actor and as a character, lends itself to the same tension and anxiety of not knowing what's happening.

there’s too much tension in the world… what hope is there in the middle east if you and i can’t make peace.

There's always a tension in my world between the pragmatic and the practical and the theoretical. I have a very theoretical turn of mind, but I also like to test things in place.

America has to stand by our allies. I think the tension that existed between Israel and the United States was very unfortunate.