Quotes About Tension

as bad as those other two." Gabe dug into his pocket. "Jeez…" She scowled at him, rocking her large frame in his direction. "Careful, Mr. Gabriel. My Lord

Many terrible things begin with B: blindness, boilers, bats, bridges, and brain tumors. But no one brings any of those to a party to up the fun quotient. When I look at a balloon, all I see is an imminent explosion. Where's the fun in that?

What do you do when you're wound up?' she asked. 'Do you play that drum?'. 'No,' said the child. 'We used to dance.' 'But now we walk,' said the father. 'And behind us an enemy walks faster.' 'That's life,' said Euterpe.

As time passed, hundreds of Arabs streamed out from neighboring areas and the Old City with more guns, hand grenades, and Molotov cocktails. British soldiers watched from their post less than a hundred yards away and did nothing.

Fifty million Arabs in seven neighboring Arab states, five regular Arab armies, a million Arabs in Palestine—against 650,000 Jews.

A paradox for sure, but such a relief.

It's the cold fish dying in your stomach feeling. You try to forget about it, but as soon as you do, the fish starts flopping around under your heart and reminds you that something truly horrible is happening.

Just as a physician might say that there is very likely not one single living human being who is completely healthy, so anyone who really knows mankind might say there is not one single living human being who does not…secretly harbor an unrest, an inner strife, a disharmony, an anxiety about an unknown something or something he does not even dare to try to know, an anxiety about some possibility in existence or an anxiety about himself…an anxiety he cannot explain.

Once you have ventured the decisive act, you are at odds with the life of this world. You come into collision with it, and because of this you will gradually be brought into such tension that you will then be able to become certain of what Christ taught. You will begin to understand that you cannot endure this world without having recourse to Christ. What else can one expect from following the truth?

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.

Anybody ever tries to tell you how this most beautiful and most evil of planets is somehow homogeneous, composed only of reconcilable elements, that it all adds up, you get on the phone to the straitjacket tailor.

Politics has become a blood sport that goes beyond just the person whose name is on the ballot.

Before coming here I had a minor back problem and I thought whenever I play Pakistan I get a back problem.

Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit if a history regarding Pakistan.

Stiff, huh? I think seeing you roll around on the floor in that tight little outfit accomplished that.

I hate everything that comes from the United States. I hate it with all my strength.

An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands, so an army avoids strength and strikes weakness.

I came to mistrust my desire to explode the picture and supercharge it in some way… what is more important is a feeling of strength in reserve – tension beneath calm.

The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension working strength is expressed, it endows the work of art with the living effect of coordinated, though opposing, forces.

A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.

You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress.

... While nervous tension may be a component of stress, one can be stressed without feeling tension.