Quotes About Tension

My combat action has commenced... I've pissed my pants, but only a little.

expect me to stand here?" the maid asked in a low hiss. "I'm sorry, Bridget,

I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that every conversation I had with a psychiatrist during the morning visit made me long to hang myself because I was aware that I could not slit his throat.

Preferisco l'angoscia ad una pace marcia, affermò lui, tra le due cose preferisco l'angoscia.

Government organisations offer pension to its workforce, private companies give undue tension to its most employees.

Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law fight like snake and mongoose, no one knows who is who actually and none can perhaps ever predict who will win eventually.

The best lesson to lessen stress and strain in own life is keep people mostly away from networking as they are often and mainly increasing tension through senseless talking and worthless hobnobbing.

Roane is an enemy, but a very fuckable one.

At the sight of him, I was clutched by a feeling like that precarious moment just past the top of a roller coaster's highest hill when gravity takes hold and the car barrels downward.

And then he reached toward me again, this time with both arms, as though he might wrap them around me to give me some comfort. But then he stopped, bit his lip, folded his arms, and strode away.

It was so quiet at our table you could've heard a rat piss on cotton.

Mama covered her ears with her hands, but I knew she heard me. Tears streamed from her eyes and dribbled from her chin. Part of me wanted to blot her face with a tissue, real tender-like, but the evil me, the girl tired of keeping her feelings bottled up for fear I'd upset mama, was blissful at causing a commotion. Maybe it was cruel to make mama cry, but at least I had cracked her shell and got a reaction. Any response was better than talking to a zombie

It was a stalemate Silas was willing to live with, and apparently, so was his mother. They both knew it wasn't about the hem on a pair of pants. One of them was mourning, the other was not, and their individual reactions to Amos's disappearance created a powerful tension. The air in the house was charged with it.

Silas was tired of living in a world where everyone and everything held its breath.

I don't know what prevents me from roasting you with this torch.

The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded Americans Is Tearing Us Apart by Bill Bishop and Robert G. Cushing,

I chuckled without humor and sat up in the chair. "If I'm not mistaken, you just asked me how much to kill your daughter?

A climber arrives, fairly pumped, at a clipping stance on a sport climb. He is ten feet out from his last bolt and very anxious to get clipped in. He's tense, over-gripping, and out of balance. Gritting his teeth, close to falling, he finally makes the clip—and instantly relaxes. Immediately he finds another good handhold within reach. A sloping foothold he mistrusted suddenly feels very adequate.

We can't just pop off and drop a bomb on North Korea and think everything's going to be OK. It just doesn't work like that. It's a complicated puzzle.

I like making movies that have some of the qualities of first-person shooter games. That was very important to me for the 'Bourne' franchise.

My access point to the '70s is films from that time, and they all have that paranoiac quality.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.

The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it.