The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument. – Henry David Thoreau
In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities. – Guillaume Canet
The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions. – John W. Gardner
The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues. – Arthur Levitt
I don’t like to watch a movie where it’s just kind of like all one note, dee-dee-dee-dee. I want spikes of adrenaline and highs and lows and exciting tension release. – Catherine Hardwicke
The tension between the Capulets and the Montagues is like a gang rivalry, and that has everything to do with Compton. – Corey Hawkins
Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it’s all at, it’s what lights the fire. – Bruce Springsteen
I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience. – Bridget Riley
The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey’s model seems to be winning. – Mustafa Akyol
I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie. – Damian Lewis
McQueen is an astonishing film maker. He uses really unusual shots and builds incredible dramatic tension. – Kevin Whately
I’ve become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working. – John Singleton
For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity. – Mahmoud Darwish
Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it’s very technical. It’s more technical than drama. – John Michael Higgins
There’s an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given. – Leon Kass
There certainly is a tension between the relativity of simultaneity and non-locality in quantum theory, but it’s not strong enough to add up to a falsification of either side by itself. – Lee Smolin
What keeps readers turning pages is suspense, which you can create using a variety of techniques, including tension, pacing and foreshadowing. – Leigh Michaels
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
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. – Paul Horn