Tension Quotes

When time, money, and results are on the line, it's easy for tension to build. Jason Fried
Time Money Build Easy Results Tension Line
Less tension in the Middle East is always a positive, and any drop in gas prices will essentially act as a tax break for consumers going into the holiday shopping season. Jeff Duncan
Positive Shopping Will Drop East Prices Consumers Tension Always Any Going Essentially Middle Tax Tax Break Middle East Break Holiday Act Less Season Gas Gas Prices
If I'm not nervous, if I don't have at least a little bit of the same self-doubt and anxious feelings I had when I started playing, then it will be time for me to go on. I must have that tension. Jerry West
Time Me Will Nervous Feelings Bit Must Had Tension Self-Doubt Least Go Same Anxious Little Little Bit Then Started Playing
My grandmother came with me when I moved out to New York. She stayed with me for a week. I was, you know, living in the dorm. The first year, I had a lot of anxiety, and, I remember, my teachers kept saying I had so much jaw tension. Jessica Chastain
Saying Me You Anxiety Remember First Year Living Out Stayed Week Had Tension New Know She Came Lot York Moved New York Dorm Much Grandmother Jaw Teachers Kept
I find it really liberating to be in a place where I am a foreigner in every way. I've lived with this all my life - this divide, this bifurcation. And in Italy, I don't feel it. There's none of that tension, only the expectation I place on myself to speak the language well. I find it relaxing. Something drops away, and I observe. Jhumpa Lahiri
Life Myself Speak Language My Life Expectation Every Way Liberating Relaxing All My Life Find Something Only Divide Observe Tension Drops Feel Well None Am Foreigner Italy Where Place Really Lived Away
I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened. Joanna Trollope
Dramatic Visible Characters More Tension Towns Because Always Often Stories Communities Actions Villages Set
Our problem as a country is that most of us do not want to join the euro, and we wish to stay aloof from the common frontiers of the free-travel Schengen area. This makes our relationship with the E.U. fraught with tension and trouble. John Redwood
Relationship Problem Trouble Wish Country Our Fraught Stay Area Join Tension Aloof Most Makes Common Frontiers Want Us Euro
There's always a tension between those who would like to garner wealth, and they contribute a lot to society. There's also those who say, 'I believe in the common good. I want that to be enlarged.' They contribute a lot to society. The tension, the debate, between these two views is extremely important to our progress. John Sulston
Good Progress Wealth Debate Important Believe Society Our Extremely Say Those Would Tension Between Like Also Always Lot Contribute Common Want Common Good Views Who Garner Two
The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions. John W. Gardner
Age Our Sluggish Tension Between Institutions Hallmark Aspirations
I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives. John le Carre
Good Sense Live Think Immediately Writers Tension Without Got Private Private Lives Very Manage Available Them Then Manufacture Who Many Lives
I've been fascinated by the world ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential' by Anthony Bourdain. I've watched 'Top Chef' and watched interviews with chefs on 'Charlie Rose'... I thought they're really intriguing characters, and they really encapsulate that tension between vision and commerce, art and commerce. Jon Favreau
Art World Vision Thought Rose Interviews Top Top Chef Characters Intriguing Charlie Kitchen Tension Between Since Read Chef Chefs Encapsulate Been Commerce Confidential Really Fascinated Ever Watched
There's a lot of similarities, I think, between a thriller and a comedy because it's all about tension. It's about building tension and setups and payoffs and misdirections and surprising people and sort of pushing the boundary. Jon Watts
People Comedy Building Think About Similarities Thriller Pushing Tension Between Boundary Sort Because Surprising Lot
A lot of weekend players struggle with putting because they have too much tension in their hands and arms, both at address and during the stroke. Tension can turn a technically perfect motion into a herky-jerky mess, especially on those knee-knockers. Jordan Spieth
Struggle Technically Too Much Too Address Those Stroke Both Perfect Weekend Putting Tension Mess Arms Because Motion Lot Hands Turn Much Players
A standup set ends on a buildup of tension and subsequent release for a big laugh. Josh Gondelman
Big Release Laugh Tension Subsequent Ends Standup Set
Feeling a few nerves is necessary and positive. That tension is a good thing: it's a sign that you're doing something you like, that you're passionate about, and about which you have a great sense of responsibility and respect for. Julen Lopetegui
Positive Good Great You Respect Responsibility Feeling Few Sense Sign Nerves About Something Good Thing Great Sense Tension Like Doing Passionate Which Thing Necessary
Politicians are constantly stuck between what is politically expedient and politically beneficial and what is the responsible or right thing to do. It's a tension we all go through. Justin Trudeau
Politicians Beneficial Right Thing Responsible Constantly Through Stuck Tension Between Go Expedient Politically Right Thing
Ever since Modi became prime minister, he has given a free rein to his ministers and BJP functionaries to create an environment of communal tension and violence. Kapil Sibal
Free Minister Ministers Given He Environment Tension Prime Prime Minister Since Became His Communal Create Rein Ever Violence
A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day. Karl Abraham
Day Morning Anxiety Somewhere Expectation State Severe Out Finds Mental Having He Almost Tension Himself Course Permanent Go Wakes Person Anxious Who Suffers
In a democracy there will always be a tension between security and privacy. Keir Starmer
Democracy Privacy Will Security Tension Between Always
In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst. Khaled Hosseini
Love Relationship You Anger Yourself Parents Become Society Loathing Perceive Angst Tension How Contradictions Role Afghan Children Central Who Fundamental Lives Play
There's a lot of tension in London, but then you realize it's always been there, in its history, and that the best thing about London, that there's always been this tension. King Krule
Best History You London About Tension Always Been Lot Realize Then Thing
The only way to really portray a character and tell a story well is to be flexible internally. And one of the ways we're blocked as actors is being aware of where our bodies are carrying tension. Kristin Lehman
Character Our Way Ways Tell Carrying Only Tension Well Blocked Being Where Story Really Bodies Flexible Actor Aware Portray
My mom told us never to reveal that we were Shia in school. You would find out that some other kid was Shiite, and you would whisper, 'Hey,' or you would see someone at the mosque, and you'd be like, 'Hey, that kid's Shiite!' There was a lot of tension, a lot of violence in Karachi between Shiites and Sunnis. Kumail Nanjiani
Mom You School Other Hey Kid Out Would Find See Some Someone Never Tension Between Like Mosque Reveal Were Lot Whisper Us Violence
I can't stand adversity and stress and drama and tension. I can't function in that environment. If I have anything to say about it, we're going to get rid of it so that everyone can just relax and have a good time. LaChanze
Time Good Adversity Stress Relax Good Time Drama Everyone Say About Environment Tension Get Going Just Anything Stand Rid Function
'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have preconceived notions and stereotypical ideals about each other, but we do. And we wanted to create a movie about people whose lives crash into each others' accidentally. Larenz Tate
People Other Others Pretend About Tension Stereotypical Ideals Still Accidentally Lot Exists America Preconceived Movie Wanted Crash Racial Us Create Notions Each Whose Lives
So much tension around here in New York. They want to fine you for every little thing you do. Latrell Sprewell
You Every Fine Tension New Around York New York Want Little Much Little Thing Thing Here
Load more quotes

No more tension quotes

Haven't find the right quote? Try another of these similiar topics.

About
Site pages
Top Quotes
Authors
Today's birthdays
Copyright © Quotesia 2024