Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.
I think there is always romantic tension between Lois Lane and Clark Kent.
I think the Founding Fathers probably knew what they were doing in setting up the government to have a healthy tension between the executive branch and the legislative branch.
I don't show tension and nervousness, but I know how fast my heartbeat races before a race.
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.
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.
I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience.
It is time for Iran and other stakeholders to begin to address the causes of tension in the wider Persian Gulf region. We need a sober assessment of the complex and intertwined realities here and consistent policies to deal with them. The fight against terror is a case in point.
Pakistan has assured that it would not allow its territory to be used against India for any acts of terror. India must also reciprocate and address our concerns which are very genuine. Dialogue is the only way forward. Absence of dialogue leads to tension.
Ever since Modi became prime minister, he has given a free rein to his ministers and BJP functionaries to create an environment of communal tension and violence.
I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.
There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.
With scale, there always becomes this tension of, how do you keep the start-up philosophy?
I'm a big fan of suspense and tension filmmaking, and that was my goal with 'The Conjuring.'
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
