Quotes About Tension

I never saw anything more like real warfare in my life - only the attack was all on one side. The police, in spite of their numbers, apparently thought they could not cope with the crowd.

One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good

To be on the wire is life. The rest is waiting.

A perfect method of adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.

Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor

Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

Be silent!" shrieked the beldame. "I won't!" said Cap. "Because you see, if we are in for the horrible, I can beat you hollow at that!

At first there's nothing to see, but you feel a sort of weariness that tells you something is in the air.

I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

Qua story, it can only have one merit: that of making the audience want to know what happens next. And conversely it can only have one fault: that of making the audience not want to know what happens next.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

He continued yelling and screaming, calling us scumbags and maggots. He even said, "You are mere pimples on the face of humanity." I thought he was supposed to be glad to see us. What was the issue?

I slid my hand back down his leg to his boot to get hold of the wire. Hood leaned down, and whispered, "Kug, that feels good, turns me on." What an asshole! I found his laces and sure enough, on his left leg, the one bent back, was a trip wire.

A bullet or two thudded into the soaked ground right next to me. My asshole froze, then jumped right up my throat as another round broke a branch by my left foot.

Walking point was adrenaline drippin' from your ears and a butt squeezed so tight you couldn't drive a tenpenny nail up it with a jackhammer. Let me at it!

landing at Montgomery's airport and feeling the intense hatred in the eyes of three white men

Some forms of success are indistinguishable from panic.

There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

One might argue then that in order to learn, one must increase survival anxiety, yet this only increases our overall tension because the sources of learning anxiety do not go away. To facilitate new learning, we need to decrease learning anxiety. We need to feel that a new behavior or practice is worthwhile, not threatening, and possible to learn.

The need for such cathartic relief derives from the fact that even the best of organizations generate "toxins"—frustrations with the boss, tensions over missed targets, destructive competition with peers, scarce resources, exhaustion from overwork, and so on (Frost, 2003; Goldman, 2008).

Russians accuse Mao of seeking "world holocaust.

wife punctured this feeble artifice without effort, and carried him off incontinently to whatever of marital purgatory she had hoarded up for him

Wars and alarums unto nations wide.

All governments require enemy governments.