Quotes About Tension

With 'The Vampire Diaries,' it's not just a tease, especially with the relationships. You're not sitting there going, 'God, I wish they'd get it over with and kiss!' There's no teasing, they jump right into the action.

Without resolving Kashmir dispute, lasting peace cannot be maintained in the region.

I've been studying Israeli army martial arts. I now know 16 ways to kick a Palestinian woman in the back.

There certainly is a tension between the relativity of simultaneity and non-locality in quantum theory, but it's not strong enough to add up to a falsification of either side by itself.

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

The tension I feel is the moment they say, 'Action!' Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to find when you possibly can catch a surprising moment.

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.

Our skin is very thin. It doesn't take much for us to jump off a ledge or to kill one another. It can happen very, very quickly.

It's true that in tennis sometimes the margins are very thin.

I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.

Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

I began getting these terrible headaches and I thought 'Oh great, death.' But it was just tension and tiredness.

I feel like working out is something where I can be alone with my own thoughts and release all that tension.

You are never quite sure how it will go, and even after a thousand games or so, that tense feeling is still there.

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

Every war makes other wars more likely.

A little uptight? Hey, man you couldn't drag a needle out of her butt with a tractor.

Emery cut in impatiantly, "For crying out loud. Who do you think you are, Nancy Drew?" Hey," I snapped, because no one sniped at my sister but me, and Mark echoed with a stern "Chill, dude." Phin was unperturbed. "Those books were highly unrealistic. Do you have any idea how much brain damage a person would have if she were hit on the head and drugged with chloroform that often?

Oh My God," I blurted, grabbing onto Phin as we faced the open bedroom door. "It's the axe murderer." "I doubt he would knock," she said, but she was whispering, too, and didn't move away from me.

Great Caesar's goat." Phin's voice floated down from the rim of the sinkhole. "The earth caves in, and you two are making out?

Svanidze had been "deranged" by his multiple imprisonments and was impossible to live with. According to Lily, he had become paranoid about his own Jewish origins and removed all his Jewish mother's portraits from the walls. And he hated Svetlana's son because Joseph was half Jewish.

Pour alcohol on a bundle of nerves and it generally turns into a can of worms.

Now take it easy . This is a gun I have at your back. Don't you feel it?" I felt it. I took it easy.