Tenseness Quotes

#1. Yet all three animals were keyed to a tenseness of living that was almost painful, and scarcely ever would it come to them to be more alive than they were then in their seeming petrifaction.

Jack London

#2. Flowers ... have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.

Henry Ward Beecher

#3. I idly wished for something else, for any situation that was neither this forsaken chamber nor the tenseness of Burrich's room. For a restfulness that perhaps I had once known somewhere else but could no longer recall. And so I drowsed into oblivion.

Robin Hobb

#4. In strategy your spiritual bearing must not be any different from normal. Both in fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased.

Miyamoto Musashi

#5. We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the subject. I said terrorism is a big problem, a different problem, and we have to take forceful action against it. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan agreed with me, but not many others did.

George P. Shultz

#6. I am not going to pretend to write a love letter to another man.

Julianne Donaldson

#7. Questions after a fatal fall of a giant are like lighting a fire by a breeze laden sea.

Darmie Orem

#8. IT'S MY BIRTHRIGHT!

Loki Laufeyson

#9. One always imagines things happen in hot blood,' he said. 'An ill-considered remark starts a row. Hard words follow, misunderstandings. Matters that can be put right in the end. Unfortunately life doesn't work out like that. First of all there is no row, secondly, nothing can be put right.

Anthony Powell

#10. I understand the power and the alarm of words - Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from bearers and on their four oak legs walk right away.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

#11. As a traditionally risk-averse nation, India has rarely been at the forefront of innovation. Indian companies have mostly imitated others and became very good at it.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

#12. Sure, this will probably end up being another in a long line of emotionally crippling misadventures ... but let's try to have some fun along the way.

Brian K. Vaughan

#13. I want better choices."
"Then we must make a world that has them.

Marie Rutkoski

#14. The more we try to avoid the basic reality that all human life involves pain, the more we are likely to struggle with that pain when it arises, thereby creating even more suffering.

Russ Harris

#15. As far as I can see, about the only thing I've missed is a college education.

Susan Strasberg

#16. The only ones who can really benefit by consulting the model are those who can produce their effect without a model.

Eugene Delacroix