Tension Quotes

• If I don't agree with something, I let people know, and it occasionally leads to tension. But I usually iron things out.

  

  Estelle
  • Agree
  • Tension
  • Leads

• Tension is the great integrity.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Great
  • Integrity
  • Tension

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

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Time
  • Go

• I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • World
  • Band
  • Sacrifice

• Tension is a prerequisite for creative living.

  

  Agnes Meyer Driscoll
  • Creative
  • Living
  • Tension

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

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Want
  • New York
  • Tension

• Pakistan has assured that it would not allow its territory to be used against India for any acts of terror. India must also reciprocate and address our concerns which are very genuine. Dialogue is the only way forward. Absence of dialogue leads to tension.

  

  Asif Ali Zardari
  • Dialogue
  • Pakistan
  • Reciprocate

• We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Attention
  • Band
  • Enough

• I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Giving
  • Feeling
  • Tension

• I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Reason
  • Creating
  • Relaxed

• For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Always
  • Identity
  • Tension

• It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or not.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Energy
  • Interesting
  • Responsible

• Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.

  

  David Deida
  • Infinite
  • Tension
  • Essentials

• Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Talk
  • Tension
  • Racial

• There were tensions between these two organizations [Organization of Afro-American Unity and N.O.I.] , and Malcolm had to negotiate between them and since he was out of the country a great deal of the time, it was rather difficult for him to do so.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Time
  • Great
  • Country

• The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Feminine
  • Masculine

• --I lifted one foot from the brackish water, and the bunny slippers were soaked and drooped pathetically. Even the fangs seemed robbed of any charm. "Don't worry," I told it. "Someone will pay for your suffering. Heavily. With screaming." I felt I should repeat it for the other slipper, in case there should be any bad feelings between the two. One should never create tension between ones's footwear. --POV is Myrnin, page 221

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Bad
  • Water
  • Suffering

• I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Movie
  • Think

• We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Perform
  • Recreation
  • Taskmaster

• The revolutionary sees his task as liberation not only of the oppressed but also of the oppressor. Happiness can never truly exist in a state of tension.

  

  Steven Biko
  • Happiness
  • Tension
  • Liberation

• But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Present
  • Better
  • Tension

• I've consciously taken on material that's a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. 'The Town,' I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger scenes, action sequences. 'Argo,' I experimented with film stock, widened the scope of my geography.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Action

• Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for awakening, that resonance of a profound mockery which, detached from the thought of the eternal, is an empty and often brash jest, but together with the thought of the eternal is just what it should be, utterly different from the insipid solemness which least of all captures and holds a thought with tension like that of death.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Death
  • Eternal
  • Tension

• I am not afraid of the word tension.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Word
  • Tension
  • Not Afraid

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