Quotes About Tension

Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

Any expectation, even the expectation of peace, brings restlessness. The tension has to go. As soon as this happens a divine peace sets in.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.

The Irish are never at peace but when they're fighting.

You will not really have durable peace without a proper security structure in the Middle East.

The war is won, but the peace is not.

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries is in danger.

Wars do not always begin with an abrupt, cymbal-crash rupture of conditions properly characterized as peace. There can be almost seamlessly incremental transitions.

It is far easier to make war than peace.

I'm drawn between the light and dark.

I was the Titanic and the iceberg all at once.

Inner turbulence leads to anger.

Heraclitus once said "we cannot exist without strife" but that does not mean we cannot co-exist without it.

A rumbling volcano is like a pimple.You know that they're both going to explode, but you just don't know when.

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters

A play's got to be a dramatic event, not a lyrical event. It's not music, it's not poetry, it's not dance, it's not narrative - it's dramaticit's about conflict. It's about forces coming together.

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.

Politics is a game requiring great coolness.

There is something about a Republican that you can only stand him just so long; and on the other hand, there is something about a Democrat that you can't stand him quite that long.

International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.