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Tension At South Quotes By Chelsea Handler

I wish it was that easy to get turned on for me - at this point, I need a bottle of Belevere and a fighterjet. — Chelsea Handler

Tension At South Quotes By Willie Morris

My mother's people, the people who captured my imagination when I was growing up, were of the Deep South - emotional, changeable, touched with charisma and given to histrionic flourishes. They were courageous under tension and unexpectedly tough beneath their wild eccentricities, for they had and unusually close working agreement with God. They also had an unusually high quota of bullshit. — Willie Morris

Tension At South Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

Perhaps of all our untamed quadrupeds, the fox has obtained the widest and most familiar reputation ... His recent tracks still give variety to a winter's walk. I tread in the steps of the fox that has gone before me by some hours, or which perhaps I have started, with such a tip-toe of expectation as if I were on the trail of the Spirit itself which resides in the wood, and expected soon to catch it in its lair. — Henry David Thoreau

Tension At South Quotes By Sara Niles

It was nineteen fifty seven, the Little Rock nine were escorted to school by Federal troops under the order of President Eisenhower to counteract the attempt of Arkansas Governor Faubus to prevent it. Southern racial tensions produced a supreme irony: Federal troops against the National Guard. This visible strife between state and nation was one of the evidences of the racial turmoil of the times — Sara Niles

Tension At South Quotes By Herschel Walker

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

Tension At South Quotes By Harry Browne

Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one - but there is a price. — Harry Browne

Tension At South Quotes By Jalaluddin Rumi

A lover has four streams inside, of water, wine, honey, and milk. Find those in yourself, and pay no attention what so-and-so says about such-and-such. The rose does not care if someone calls it a thorn, or a jasmine. Ordinary eyes categorize human beings, That one is a Zoroastrian. This one, Muslim. Walk instead with the other vision given you, your first eyes. — Jalaluddin Rumi

Tension At South Quotes By Evan Osnos

There's a national ambition, a collective, in a sense, political ambition, which I think is the thing we see from far away. That's the fact that China's building roads and airports and extending its reaches out into the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and in a way that's putting it into some tension with its neighbors. — Evan Osnos

Tension At South Quotes By St. Lucia

I think I was just too young to even understand what was going on. When I was still living in South Africa, there was still so much racial tension. — St. Lucia

Tension At South Quotes By John Hickenlooper

"On unanticipated problems: There's been "a dramatic increase in edibles." And "no one had ever worried about dosage sizes. The original edibles that came out, once you took the packaging off there was nothing to show it was any different than candy." — John Hickenlooper

Tension At South Quotes By John A. Macdougall

When we are forced to endure what we cannot endure, something breaks inside our minds. That broken-mindedness is commonly called trauma. — John A. Macdougall

Tension At South Quotes By Frantz Fanon

Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is divided into Black and White, and the names that are substituted- Africa south of the Sahara, Africa north of the Sahara- do not manage to hide this latent racism. Here, it is affirmed that White Africa has a thousand-year-old tradition of culture; that she is Mediterranean, that she is a continuation of Europe and that she shares in Graeco-Latin civilization. Black Africa is looked on as a region that is inert, brutal, uncivilized - in a word, savage. — Frantz Fanon

Tension At South Quotes By Tony Robbins

You feel what you're focused on. — Tony Robbins

Tension At South Quotes By Kirsty Eagar

Anna's one of those people who get fired up about injustices in the world; quick to quiver with rage because other people don't ignite like she does. — Kirsty Eagar

Tension At South Quotes By Marcus Tullius Cicero

Judge not by the number, but by the weight. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Tension At South Quotes By Thomas Mars

In California, there is a strong tension between north and south. — Thomas Mars

Tension At South Quotes By Shannon Leto

Don't ever be someone you're not. We are all that we are, so why try to change that? — Shannon Leto

Tension At South Quotes By Colin Woodard

Since 1877 the driving force of American politics hasn't primarily been a class struggle or tension between agrarian and commercial interests, or even between competing partisan ideologies, although each has played a role. Ultimately the determinative political struggle has been a clash between shifting coalitions of ethnoregional nations, one invariably headed by the Deep South, the other by Yankeedom. — Colin Woodard

Tension At South Quotes By Anna Quindlen

I prize my downtime, count on it as a writer, a parent, a person. Sometimes I think of Woody Allen's remark about masturbation, that it is sex with someone he loves. I feel as though being alone is hanging out with someone I like. — Anna Quindlen