Quotes About Tension

My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.

Competence As many cases show, a police officer without an understanding of people will not deal competently with conflict, while one who has it can calm adversaries and ease tension.

Between dreams stand hope and despair, which cause a feeling of relief and grief.

Everyone stays in a silent war for its interests and goals, some with fun and some with the gun, in various contexts.

Peace increases; whereas, war decreases, every context and way of life and system.

Sowing bullets and waiting for peace, fail to match that.

Stress is such a force, and tension is such a condition; these both severely destroy health and place physically under strain; such invisible powers affect like a silent killer of a happy life.

To wait is an uttermost, and unpleasant weight.

Their disagreements were often like this, beginning with a violent clash of emotions, a locking of horns in implacable antagonism. Mutual understanding was undermined before it ever had a chance to grow.

concentration breeds efficiency while division brings inefficiency, error, and tension.

Isn't that petty?" "Anna, you have not yet seen pettiness. When a couple of tough guys like the general and Lugala Tsu decide to confront each other, vistas of pettiness open up that you and I can barely comprehend.

It is impossible to explain anything to those who are both angry and terrified.

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Tu capisci, Lenú, che cosa succede alle persone: abbiamo troppa roba dentro e questo ci gonfia, ci rompe.

Il m'aimait sans aucune tension et moi-même je le pris progressivement en affection.

Pareva che la città covasse nelle viscere una furia che non riusciva a venir fuori e perciò la erodeva, o erompeva in pustole di superficie, gonfie di veleno contro tutti, bambini, adulti, vecchi, gente di altre città, americani della Nato, turisti d'ogni nazionalità, gli stessi napoletani.

I seemed tranquil but I was extremely agitated, my face hurt with the effort of smiling.

Cuánto me agotaba nuestra relación, y cuántas insidias se escondían en cada gesto, en cada frase que pronunciaba yo, que pronunciaba él.

It seemed to me - articulated in words of today - that not only did she know how to put things well but she was developing a gift that I was already familiar with: more effectively than she had as a child, she took the facts and in a natural way charged them with tension; she intensified reality as she reduced it to words, she injected with energy. But I also realized, with pleasure, that, as soon as she began to do this, I felt able to do the same, and I tried and it came easily.

Al final decidí que, con veterinario o sin él, el concierto me relajaría. La música siempre hace bien, desata los nudos con que los nervios se aferran a las emociones.

She took the facts and in a natural way charged them with tension; she intensified reality as she reduced it to words, she injected it with energy.

the ignorant majority, which does however possess one thing in abundance: It is raring for a fight.

Such are the ills of our time, which flounders between apocalypse and normalcy. Are we in a crisis, or aren't we?

There are but two states to the primitive mind: warring and boring.