Quotes About Tension

opened the front door with my left hand, my gun cocked in my right. A little man leaned toward me, peering into the fog with intent dead eyes. I caught him before he fell out. I'd been feeling death in my bones for twenty-four hours.

Nothing happened when I pressed the bellpush. I knocked on the door. Slowly, like twin bodies being dragged, footsteps approached the other side of it.

Prince looked ready to slug me. I almost wished he would. Like most Americans, I was a counter-puncher.

As George Russell defined a literary movement: "Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.

He couldn't fit the two things together. It gave him a jagged, unfinished feeling, like the first pinprick of heartbreak, a tiny pointed lance of light beaming on something you can't bear to see, can't bring yourself to look at, can't look away from.

Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

If the writer wants to create suspense, or build tension, or make the reader wait and wonder, or join a journey of discovery, or hold on for dear life, he can save subject and verb of the main clause until later. As I just did.

If you're going to mash two ideas, they need to fit some way. And preferable cause as much tension as harmony.

Extended minds are implicit in our language. The words "attention" and "intention" come from the Latin root tendere, to stretch, as in "tense" and "tension." "Attention" is ad + tendere, "to stretch toward"; "intention," in + tendere, "to stretch into.

The tension between enabling and constraining democracy is therefore the heart of democratic constitutionalism.

The war was like a slow-burning campfire onto which both sides occasionally threw wood. And that's probably the way it would have continued, if not for the arrival of the Autodefensas.

Of all the Arabs who encircled Israel, the Syrians were the most vicious.

Meanwhile, the mufti and his followers sat back, watching the war between Britain and the Jews with satisfaction.

Altercations, fights, wars, only begin because something unjust has transpired.

Stress" is mostly the result of not being allowed to kill some asshole you really want to slice and dice.

Why would you think there was anything more between me and Mr. Pinter?" Because you blush when his name is mentioned. Because he follows you with his eyes. Because I do not know what to make of him, and that worries me.

Will it do?" he asked as he folded his arms over his chest. She turned to him. Her eyes grew shuttered and any sign of pleasure vanished from her face. "I suppose I can endure it." As if he couldn't tell she liked it.

Well, Edwin?" Jane asked anxiously. "Would he hurt her?" Blakeborough squeezed Jane's shoulder, then left his hand resting there. That seemed remarkably intimate for a man who supposedly had only a platonic-sounding "arrangement" with her. Dom tamped down his urge to go knock the earl's hand from here into the next county.

Her female vanity was stung by his implication that no man would look at her twice otherwise. Snatching the cap up, she began to hunt for the hairpins scattered across the floor, but he left the door and advanced on her with a muttered curse. "If you put it up, I'll just take it down again." His voice lowered to a throaty hum. "And you know what happens when I take your hair down.

Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit if a history regarding Pakistan.

For the Muslims, I'm too worldly. For other groups, I'm too religious. For militants, I'm too moderate. For moderates, I'm too militant. I feel like I'm on a tightrope.

That's when Mr. Muhammad's patience wore thin. And with his nod, I began returning their fire.

her body aching as her muscles tightened painfully.

I am not going to kill you. First I'm going to beat on you for a few hours. Then I might move on to the cutting.