Tension Quotes - Page 11

• One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good

  Albert Einstein

  Constant

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• Heather A. Slomski's stories are downright addictive. I kept promising myself to turn off the light after just one more, and then breaking that promise, beguiled by her cool, measured prose and by the surprises, tensions, and uncanny encounters simmering beneath its elegant surface.

  Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

  Light, Heathers, Promise

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• The criminal-justice system is, obviously, the sole source of racial tension in this country [USA] or the key institution to resolving the opportunity gap. It is a part of the broader set of challenges that we face in creating a more perfect union.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Opportunity, Keys

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Making scary movies and creating tension is very technical and it require a lot of coverage. It requires the stretching of time.

  Franck Khalfoun

  Creating, Scary, Stretching

  Source: collider.com

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• America should be cooling down the tensions in the internet, making it a more trusted environment, making it a more secure environment, making it a more reliable environment, because that's the foundation of our economy and our future.

  Edward Snowden

  America, Foundation, Internet

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Hawk and the Dove is a wonderful idea for a book, wonderfully carried out. Nicholas Thompson has used illuminating new material to present each of his protagonists in a convincing, respectful, but unsparing way. Even more valuable, he has used the interactions and tensions between Paul Nitze and George Kennan to bring much of American 20th century foreign policy to life, with human richness ever present but with the big issues clear in all their complexity.

  James Fallows

  Book, Ideas, Issues

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• When a skater steps on the ice to compete, the nerves, the tension, and sheer suspense of that moment make for great drama.

  Brian Boitano

  Drama, Ice, Steps

  Brian Boitano, Suzanne Harper, Peggy Fleming (1997). “Boitano's Edge: Inside The Real World Of Figure Skating”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities. So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Exercise, Reality, Hands

  "Wolfgang Tillmans: the lightness of being". Interview with Liz Jobey, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2010.

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• I think that most of my books are part of some process of self-education, often about the places I go to. Most of all, they are about the peculiar tension between institutional loyalty and loyalty to oneself; the mystery of patriotism, for a Brit of my age and generation, where it runs, how it should be defined, what it's worth and what a corrupting force it can be when misapplied. All that stuff is just in me and it comes out in the characters. I don't mean to preach, but I know I do, and I'm a very flawed person. It's quite ridiculous.

  John le Carre

  Loyalty, Running, Book

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• Zen is not effort. Effort is tension, effort is work, effort is to achieve something. Zen is not something to achieve. You are already that. Just relax, relax so deeply that you become a revelation to yourself.

  Rajneesh

  Work, Effort, Relax

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• The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.

  Publilius Syrus

  Broken, Bows

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 388, 1856.

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• 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.

  William Gibson

  Sun, Driving, Changed

  William Gibson (2012). “Distrust That Particular Flavor”, p.37, Penguin

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• Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Honesty, Truth, Government

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• Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Pain, Feelings, Inward

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• Tension is a prerequisite for creative living.

  Agnes Meyer Driscoll

  Stress, Creative, Prerequisites

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• If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension".

  Moses Finley

  Leader, Political, Would Be

  "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 2, Athenian Demagogues, p. 60, 1985.

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• These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Spring, Intelligent, Lovely

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• I am, in fact, the complete anti-Messiah, and detest converts almost as much as I detest missionaries. My writings, such as they are, have had only one purpose: to attain for H. L. Mencken that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

  H. L. Mencken

  Writing, Giving, Feelings

  "For the Defense Written for the Associated Press, for use in my obituary" by H. L. Mencken, November 20, 1940.

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• It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.

  Raymond Chandler

  This Generation, Generations, Patterns

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would say that in France all beliefs are respected.

  Francois Hollande

  Freedom, Attachment, People

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• The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in
  the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste.

  Howard Thurman

  Men, Evil, World

  Howard Thurman (2014). “A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life”, p.106, Beacon Press

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• The world was created because God willed it, but why did He will it? Judaism has maintained, in all of its versions, that this world is the arena that God created for man, half beast and half angel; to prove that he could be a moral being...man was given dominion over nature, but he was commanded to behave towards the rest of creation with justice and compassion. Man lives, always, in tension between his power and the limits set by his conscience.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Angel, Men, Compassion

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• Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.

  Colin Powell

  Toil, Sense Of Humor, Break

  "Transcript: Secretary of State Colin Powell". www.foxnews.com. June 13, 2004.

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• As a director, when you cut scenes from a movie, you do it with the idea that it is making the story move forward and progress. Sometimes, you don't realize that something is actually a sidetrack for the story, or it takes the tension out of a scene.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Moving, Cutting, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• Music can be so manipulating - especially in terms of horror. It's such an important part of building the tension.

  Avey Tare

  Important, Horror, Building

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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