I tend to have a long con when it comes to romance, in part because I like the build-up as much as the payoff, and in part because I think there are a wealth of relationships out there (friend, sibling, rival, etc. ), and straight-up romance interests me less than tension.
Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.
In our country [US] equality means your liberal and freedom means you're conservative. That tension is there and it can't be handled on its own terms. It can't be handled as you go out of that and go back into natural institutions or natural law or divine revelation. Something outside of the system has to tell you the system has gone wrong.
What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.
I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.
You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension.
If you want to get an audience quiet, just say "abortion" and everybody shuts up and the tension in the room is spectacular.
This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to ensure the survival of the richest, it is democracy that has to be heavily regulated rather than capitalism.
The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.
Every day, there's that tension and the pressure. Each scene that you shoot is like getting to that next step, but there's still that mountain to climb. So it's not like one day is harder or one scene is harder. They are all equally challenging.
By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between loftiness and accessibility. Stir in the fact that the inborn talent and intelligence needed to achieve fame are immune to distributive tinkering by government programs and you have a definition of fame certain to produce envious rage: somebody screwed democracy.
In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.
The tension between us kicked up a notch, and I realized that along with our bodies being nearer, so were our lips.
Art is constant tension and release. That is where artists live, between the two, or at times, submerged in either. The challenge is never ending perfection is impossible, it could always be different, better, or worse. It's not important, just process and striving to be like the man who walks the trapeze maintaining balance.
The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.
Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.
Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.
Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has.
You might not feel like playing pretty all the time. Instead, you might want to play something nasty. . . . you might want to play something out of context with the tune. It might be a note that creates so much tension it becomes unpleasant, but you want it to sound that way.
I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.