If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension".
If pornography releases sexual tension, why don't we send recipe books to the starving?
Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.
I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live, and that will make me die.
A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served as a counterweight to the moral blindness of the market. This is another example of the cultural contradictions of capitalism - the tendency over time for the economic impulse to erode the moral underpinnings of society. Mercy toward the animals in our care is one such casualty.
Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.
There are a lot of polls that show that actually Americans have a pretty high opinion of teachers, that Americans think teachers are just about as prestigious as doctors. And yet there's this political conversation - this reform conversation - that paints a very negative picture of the effectiveness of the teaching population. So there's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans think about teachers.
Full of thrills and tension - but smart and human too.
Why should I be feeling tension? It's The Daily Show.
The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.
If we keep bombing other people, that creates more anger. Tensions keep escalating.
Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.
When you have no intention then you have no tension! Be flexible.
I came to mistrust my desire to explode the picture and supercharge it in some way… what is more important is a feeling of strength in reserve – tension beneath calm.
If you want to get an audience quiet, just say "abortion" and everybody shuts up and the tension in the room is spectacular.
Well you found us strength and solutions but I liked the tension And not always knowing the answers when you're gonna lose it, you're gonna lose it.
What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.
I have my set rigged with the biggest sound system possible and have a mini jack for my iPod attached to my director's chair. I find playing music is a very direct way to communicate with actors and the crew, especially those crew members who are on the periphery of the set. I like dancing on set too, it's a good way to release tension.
It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative.
Thanksgiving without tension is like a Thanksgiving without turkey. It can be done, but it is not the norm.