Tension Quotes

The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning.

I believe that solution to all problems is in development. Development is also the solution to the tension that people talk about.

Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity.

Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.

I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension.

We [The Replacements] formed as a rock and roll band, and that was the path we chose to take. Whenever we deviated from it we felt, unless everybody was into it, there was tension.

What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

The books [and games] that give us the most pleasure combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release.

There's such a deep, conservative feeling in 'The way Back.' You go, 'gosh, we've gotten narrow.' So at the moment I think there's a kind of tension, and it's gold rush fever.

The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.

When something explosive is kept hidden away, a tension builds within that must ultimately be released.

One should never create tension between one's footwear.

Hence the tension, the anxiety, the anguish of humanity. The more you fight with death, the more anxiety-ridden you will become, you are bound to become. That's a natural consequence of it.

You ask me, "Will you say something more about relaxation? I am aware of a tension deep in the core of me and suspect that I have probably never been totally relaxed."

There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'

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 which every arrow of moral action flies.

When there is tension, arguments and money problems, it's tough to do your work. Some people thrive on that. I don't.

The tension between us kicked up a notch, and I realized that along with our bodies being nearer, so were our lips.

Why should I be feeling tension? It's The Daily Show.

The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.

We need two homes, a green one and a brown one, a grown one and a built one, two worlds in tension.

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.

Living life in separate compartments can lead to internal conflict and exhausting tension.

If I really knew how to do good storytelling, I would be a writer. Mystery is not a huge part of it. ... It's tension, it's relationships. I think it's a struggle.

There was a lot of tension between my dad and his mother and brothers. Sometimes when I was over there, I remember thinking, "I don't want to get shot."

In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.

At one point I felt a tension between objects, their real, physical lives, and the idea of meaning: the physical, material reality of a book, and the totally intangible experience of reading it.

Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.

It takes confidence and guts to intentionally create tension.

It's his show and I'm just trying to make him look good. If we were the same age there might be a little tension, but I'm on my way out... I am here to serve your every need, King James.

I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.

To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive.

I think I was just too young to even understand what was going on. When I was still living in South Africa, there was still so much racial tension.

White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.

It won't be the same for me," I whispered, half to myself. "You won't let me be like that. We'll live in Antarctica." Edward snorted, breaking the tension. "Penguins. Lovely.

I'm not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together.

I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.

I try to make the set as relaxed and fun and stress-free as humanly possible, while still having control over things. It's usually tension that hurts a performance or makes it seem self-conscious.

Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about.

There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.

Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life.

This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work.

Conservatism as an "ism" is always going to be somewhat in tension with a political party.

If you create an environment of conflicts, I don’t think you will enjoy peace yourself.

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive

You are the biggest enemy of your own sleep.

The traditional techniques used in getting sleep aren’t much effective any longer and our sleep techniques need to evolve as rapidly as our life style has, in order to cope with it.

If the world leaders can afford a 7 hours sleep, most of us probably can too.