Tension Quotes

Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

I'm as anxious as any viewer would be to see what Temple is going to do next. All I know is that in the second half of the season, he's going to have more sexual tension developing. And it's a great cast - they're all Broadway actors except for me. I aspire to that.

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.