#tension

We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing. ↗

— Richard Powers

#anxieties #build #capable #desires #doing

I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#husband #i #pretension #really #say

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#authority #cannons #everywhere #further #greatest

Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences. ↗

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#before #confidence #differences #extension #fervently

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#absolute truth #eternal #makes #pretension #science

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement. ↗

— Gerald Jampolsky

#asks #comparison #expansion #extension #fear

And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money. ↗

— Michael Patrick Jann

#documentary #energy #good #good way #money

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#movies #music #release #tension

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#alive #already #bring #creators #direct

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

— Allen Klein

#heaviest #help #laughter #matters #relieve