Quotes About Tension

The air had that heightened energy, that guilty pleasure of tragedy.

Her mother had responded in kind, and the result was "unpleasantness and misery rebounding all the time.

Cuando una niña consigue perturbar a un señor de mediana edad, todo se vuelve muy complicado.

Something stiffened, moved. Just as Alyss realized who it was, standing with bowed head at Sir Justice's grave-- Dodge . --He whirled around, the point of his sword aimed at her throat. Not the warmest way to great your... She was about tosay queen but changed her mind. ...friend.

Peace really isn't so peaceful.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called spannungsbogen -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

Each man is a little war.

The Reverend Mother must combine the seductive wiles of a courtesan with the untouchable majesty of a virgin goddess, holding these attributes in tension so long as the powers of her youth endure. For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness.  

The Zensunni approach to birth, he said, urging her even faster, is to wait without purpose in the state of highest tension. Do not compete with what is happening. To compete is to prepare for failure. Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.

Another might have missed the tension, but she had trained him in the Bene Gesserit Way - in the minutiae of observation.

peace encourages aggressions, thus igniting war.

People don't want war!" "They want chaos. War is the most readily available form of chaos.

There is a fundamental tension between science and freedom - no matter how science is viewed by its practitioners nor how freedom is sensed by those who believe they have it.

Superb accuracy in water measurement, Jessica thought. And she noted that the walls of the meter trough held no trace of moisture after the water's passage. The water flowed off those walls without binding tension. She saw a profound clue to Fremen technology in the simple fact: they were perfectionists.

For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness.

Everywhere there is peace, Paul thought. Everywhere … except in the heart of Muad'dib.

Así habló Santa Alia del Cuchillo: «La Reverenda Madre debe combinar las artes de seducción de una cortesana con la intocable majestad de una diosa virgen, manteniendo estos atributos en tensión tanto tiempo como subsistan los poderes de su juventud. Pues una vez se hayan ido belleza y juventud, descubrirá que el lugar intermedio ocupado antes por la tensión se ha convertido en una fuente de astucia y de recursos infinitos.» De «Muad'Dib

I'll sheath my knife in your blood," Jamis snarled. And in the middle of the last word he pounced.

The Reverend Mother must combine the seductive wiles of a courtesan with the untouchable majesty of a virgin goddess, holding these attributes in tension so long as the powers of her youth endure. For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness.

Ele fala da morte porque isso é necessário. É a tensão por meio da qual os vivos sabem que estão vivos.

He could see it stretching ahead of him, a time of relative quiet in a hidden sietch, a moment of peace between periods of violence.

Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing.

It is far better to win a battle through skilled leadership and wise decisions than violence and bloodshed. It may not seem as glorious to the uninitiated, but in the end it results in fewer wounds--of any kind.

Thus spoke St. Alia-of-the-Knife: "The Reverend Mother must combine the seductive wiles of a courtesan with the untouchable majesty of a virgin goddess, holding these attributes in tension so long as the powers of her youth endure. For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness.