Quotes About Tension

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

Stefan would be so great for her, because it's just so annoying watching those two on screen all the time!

I mean, it is the perfect situation to really love someone to death and to want to rip their clothes off at the same time, isn't it?

But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

There's not much TV these days where you really get that element of surprise. There are so many spoilers all the time.

A lot of times, you feel like you're walking on eggshells in a creative environment, because everyone's having to watch out for egos so much of the time.

The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted.

Pakistan is running away from talks which will be held only when we get reply. Time available is only tonight.

You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.

No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties is at the same time delivered from servitude.

Fasting gives your body time to heal itself. It relieves nervousness and tension and gives your digestive system a rest.

No one can keep out of conflict, the entire world is at war, and even though the allies are doing better, the end is nowhere in sight.

It won't take long before I explode with pent-up rage.

I feel as if I were about to explode. I know crying would help, but I can't cry. I'm restless.

Of course, there's sometimes a reason to have a "real" quarrel, but the verbal exchanges that take place here are just plain bickering. I should be used to the fact that these squabbles are daily occurrences, but I'm not and never will be as long as I'm the subject of nearly every discussion.

this tedious existence is starting to make us all disagreeable.

Kitty, if only you knew how I sometimes boil under so many gibes and jeers. And I don't know how long I shall be able to stifle my rage. I shall just blow up one day. Still

Expectation and hope generate tension, as does fear.

Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic.

The basic formula for drama is setup, buildup, payoff—just like a joke.

His face was pale and there was a sheen of sweat on it, and his hands were rigid in his lap. If she had touched him she would have felt locked muscles.

I love you still, that's the torment of it. Lestat I never loved. But you! The measure of my hatred is that love. They are the same! Do you know now how much I hate you!

The Sucking [of the blood] mesmerized me; the warm struggling of the man was soothing to the tension of my hands; and there came the beating of the drum again, which was the drumbeat of his heart - only this time it beat in perfect rhythm with the drumbeat of my own heart, the two resounding in every fiber of my being, until the bet began to grow slower and slower, so that each was a soft rumble that that threatened to go on without end.I was drowsing, falling into weightlessness;