#tension

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time. ↗

— Hattie McDaniel

#clean #fun #good #humor #little

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#being #consciousness #electronic #extension #form

My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#achieve #children #having #having children #her

Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed. ↗

— John Moody

#east #even #extensions #lay #managed

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#conditions #continuing #deeper #distress #important

People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality. ↗

— Henry Reed

#another #comfortable #dream #dreams #feel

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am. ↗

— Joan Jett

#extension #guitar #i #i am #myself

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

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#class #classes #find #funny #i