Tension Quotes - Page 34

• As long as colonialism was allowed to reign and fester in Africa, it was going to be a source of tension, if not war, as was evidenced by World War I itself, which, among other things, featured Germany on one side of the barricades and Britain, which had come earlier to the table of colonial plunder, on the other.

  Gerald Horne

  War, Long, Colonialism

  Source: politicalaffairs.net

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• I think there is no one answer. It is still a struggle, there are tensions and I'm sure there are many people who would like to see these questions laid to rest or cease to be posed altogether.

  Judith Butler

  Struggle, Thinking, People

  Source: ilga.org

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• Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don't have a nationalities problem, we don't have an ethnic problem. It is like living with your wife, with whom you are in love and you are intensely involved in, but you also have tensions. And their position is that they want to deny that these tensions exist.

  Akbar Ganji

  Believe, Iran, Wife

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I buy a tractor two years ago, and four-fifths of the tractor manual is about not tipping over, not raising the bucket high enough to hit high-tension wire... not killing yourself, basically. And in that manual, I found out - and it cost me a thousand dollars - that when the tractor is new, 10 hours into use of the tractor, you have to re-torque the lug nuts. If you don't, you will oval the holes. This is buried between the moron warnings. I never found it. I take the tractor in for its regular servicing, and they say my wheels are gone. How am I supposed to know that? "It's in the manual."

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Years, Nuts, Two

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We haven't had a recession for 25 years in Australia. It's partly because of our trade with China. China's been doing relatively well. So some of the tensions around a low-wage economy haven't quite happened here in the same way as they have in the United States.

  Richard Glover

  Years, Australia, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There were tensions between these two organizations [Organization of Afro-American Unity and N.O.I.] , and Malcolm had to negotiate between them and since he was out of the country a great deal of the time, it was rather difficult for him to do so.

  Manning Marable

  Country, Organization, Two

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• Elements within Malcolm's X own entourage, some of them were very angry with some of the changes that had occurred with Malcolm. One source of anger, curiously enough, was that - was the tension between MMI and OAAU, that the MMI, the Muslim Mosque Incorporated, these were women and men who had left the Nation of Islam out of loyalty to Malcolm, but then Malcolm continued to evolve rapidly.

  Manning Marable

  Loyalty, Men, Islam

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• MMI brothers were very resistant to women such as Lynn Shiflet and others who emerged as leaders within the OAAU, so one of the tensions that occurred was around gender equality and gender leadership inside of Malcolm's X entourage.

  Manning Marable

  Brother, Leader, Entourage

  "The Undiscovered Malcolm X: Stunning New Info on the Assassination, His Plans to Unite the Civil Rights and Black Nationalist Movements & the 3 'Missing' Chapters from His Autobiography". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 21, 2005.

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• What is true, and I think that we can't deny it, is that some of the same concerns about globalization, about technology, rapid social change that were reflected in Brexit, that's been reflected in some of the debates in Germany and France and other places, that those exist in the United States as well. My view is that over the long term, over the next 10, 15, 20 years, if we are able to address the legitimate economic concerns of those who feel left behind by globalization, then many of these tensions will be reduced. And we will see a world that is less divided.

  Barack Obama

  Technology, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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.

  V. E. Schwab

  Sibling, Thinking, Long

  Source: happyeverafter.usatoday.com

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• We've been in a period of relative stability and cooperation since the end of the Cold War among the world's major powers, but that may not always exist. And certainly one could even predict that there will be periods of hostility or tension ahead.

  John Burroughs

  War, World, May

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• As inequality grows, the basic bonds of social fraternity are fraying - as we discussed in regard to Occupy Wall Street. As tensions increase, people will become more willing to engage in protest. But that moment is not now.

  Edward Snowden

  Wall, People, Moments

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.

  Herschel Walker

  Senior, Sports, Believe

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• I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.

  Murray Walker

  Heart, Usual, Hammers

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• The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.

  Naomi Wolf

  America, President, Gone

  "Naomi Wolf on Obama: 'His record on civil liberties is shocking'". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2012.

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• Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cracks, Decay, Slides

  Four Quartets "Burnt Norton" pt. 5 (1936)

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• When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his thumbs in his belt. A strange spasm shook him, as if he heard fingernails scrape slate, but as I gazed at him in wonder the tension slowly drained from his face. His lips parted into a timid smile, and our neighbor’s image blurred with my sudden tears. “Hey, Boo,” I said. “Mr. Arthur, honey,” said Atticus, gently correcting me. “Jean Louise, this is Mr. Arthur Radley. I believe he already knows you.

  Harper Lee

  Wall, Believe, Sweat

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• Love, whether it's friendship or more, is like a cup. It fills up drop by drop, until one last drop and the cup is full. The liquid hangs there almost above the rim, hangs there on surface tension alone and you know that one more drop and it will spill over.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Lasts, Cups, Liquid

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2008). “Blood Noir: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.113, Penguin

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• Tension of opposites.

  Mitch Albom

  Opposites

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.40, Broadway Books

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• by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to look good: it's the gift of feeling floppier.

  Anne Lamott

  Break Through, Feelings, Looks

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, Anchor

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• It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit... No one likes to think of him or herself as a bad person. To treat badly another person whom we consider a reasonable human being creates a tension between act and attitude that demands resolution. We cannot erase what we have done, and to alter our future behavior may not be in our interest. To change our attitude is easier.

  James W. Loewen

  Attitude, Thinking, People

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• ...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.

  Ian Fleming

  Relaxation, Way, Pressure

  Ian Fleming (1992). “Goldfinger”, Chivers North Amer

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• Think about how many of us have wondered why we don't fit, why our faith doesn't stabilize us, why we seem so out of sync with most of the world. Genuine faith is the isolating force in our lives that creates tension wherever we go. To put it another way, faith is the unbalancing force in our lives that is the fruit of God's disturbing presence.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Thinking, World, Way

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.54, Harper Collins

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• Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to trace a strange background of multi-dimensional reality behind the ghoulish hints of Gothic tales and the wild whispers of the chimney-corner, one can hardly expect to be wholly free from mental tension. (Dreams In The Witch-House)

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Dream, Reality, House

  H. P. Lovecraft (2017). “Dreams in the Witch House”, p.3, BookRix

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• Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; Three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, And dissension have begun.

  Alfred Bester

  Eight, Two, Three

  Alfred Bester (1996). “The Demolished Man”, Vintage

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