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A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.
Jack Vance
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
George Orwell
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.
Northrop Frye
Between men and women, all the time there is tension. I feel it. A woman walks down the street, and I'm going back, and suddenly there is this tension. I just walk down the street, we were just on the way. And she thinks I'm a rapist. And now I feel guilty, even though I'm a damn poor did not.
Quentin Tarantino
So many forces and resources would become available if States, aware (or conscious) of their true (or real) mission, would want to get on (or agree) to abolish every politics aiming at ("visant à", Fr.) expansion or hegemony; system that maintain among nations a a perpetual distrust and tension, impose on them (or force or compel, "leur impose", Fr.) formidable armies and crushing war budgets.
African Spir
It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.
Carl Sagan
What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation.
Pauline Kael
You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.
Murray Walker
If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension."
Moses I. Finley
The more I think about sex, the better it gets. Here we have a purpose in life, good for the blood circulation, good for releasing the tension.
Kate Bush
Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.
Martin Luther King Jr.
So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.
Donald Norman
The capacity for the accomplishment of religious virtuosos - the "intellectual sacrifice”- is the decisive characteristic of the positively religious man. That this is so is shown by the fact that in spite of (or rather in consequence) of theology (which unveils it) the tension between the value-spheres of "science” and the sphere of "the holy” is unbridgeable.
Max Weber
there's too much tension in the world... what hope is there in the middle east if you and i can't make peace.
Megan McCafferty
What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out.
Mehmet Oz
I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody knows what's going to happen three hours from now.
Richard Condon
There was enough tension in the room to send a fleet of the nervous running for their tranquilizers.
Charlaine Harris
Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.
George Zebrowski
If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.
Dennis Weaver
Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.
Allen Klein
I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.
Andrew Denton
Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.
Annabelle Selldorf
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