Tension Quotes
Words on the tension that drives stories, science, and struggle.
These quotes treat tension as something almost necessary, from the friction that gives a good story its stakes to the sacrifice a band accepts to speak for larger struggles. The idea continues in Good Quotes.
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.
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Adrenaline Quotes
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.
It's a fine line between commenting on social events and exploiting them in a commercial endeavor. This is the tension with which the fashion industry struggles - unfairly.
Always Quotes
Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.
There is tension between the values of modern society and the principles of Islam.
Basically, in the fight-or-flight response, the objective is to get away from the source of threat. All of our muscles prepare for this escape by increasing their tension level, our heart rate and respiration increase, and our whole basic metabolic...
In 1983, all of us had U.S. passports, but because there was so much tension between America and the U.S.S.R., we were announced as a Canadian group.
Back Quotes
With scale, there always becomes this tension of, how do you keep the start-up philosophy?
I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.
The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning.
Good Quotes
Louise Bonnet is a Los Angeles-based painter of round, fleshy, almost obscene shapes and people. But hers is a very clean, friendly cartoon world, so there's this tension between harmlessness and perversion that is totally unsettling.
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Other lines point to the ongoing pull separating publicly funded research from privately driven science, or a simple plea not to add to someone's stress. Explore more in Adrenaline Quotes or Back Quotes.
