Quotes About Tension

Only love could create such conflict, such longing, such fear.

For the first time in our existence together, I felt a great outpouring of affection, a deep affinity, yet something else made him stiffen suddenly against his will.

I wanted this child-this boy who was now two years older than when I'd found him-and yet I wanted everything else for him, and my soul was torn, just as my heart was torn.

She looked away, meeting Taka's dark, pitiless gaze. Silently, he mouthed something unbelievable. She was sure it was, I love you.

He half expected another argument. A struggle of some sort. Again, a surprise. She made that soft, hungry sound that had already emblazoned itself in his senses, she put her hands on his shoulders, and she kissed him back, her tongue sliding against his.

Derek glanced over at her. Then he closed his magazine, leaving a finger inside as a marker, and undid his seat belt and stood up. "Trade places with me," he said. Willa gazed up at him imploringly. "Come on. Move." She fumbled for her seat belt. She undid the buckle, holding her breath, and then she clutched her purse and sat forward, wincing as she braced for the slam of the bullet. Nothing happened.

This is a gun," he said quietly, "and it's loaded. Move and I shoot. You're not allowed out of your seat, and neither is he.

Without lesions making everyone agreeable, society was left roiling in a constant battle of words, images, and ideas. All around her Tally felt the city seething, all those unfettered minds bouncing their opinions off each other, like something ready to explode.

I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too

If Chizara was agreeing with Ethan, things were bad.

life is problematic, so novels must be too.

But the days when the people could demonstrate peacefully were over. El Salvador was on the eve of civil war, and Romero did everything he could to prevent it.

But the weight of her anguish over Gregory – this one missing airman, this unreliable, perhaps unworthy man – filled her whole upper half, diaphragm, lungs, ribs, shoulders, with such crushing gravity that the sighs with which she was obliged to displace it shook her entire body.

A fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to his religion before he explores it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first then considers whether or not he wants to accept the ramifications. A curious person embraces the tension between his religion and something new, wrestles with it and through it, and then decides whether to embrace the new idea or reject it.

The same is true for learning. True learning (as opposed to education) is a voluntary experience that requires tension and discomfort (the persistent feeling of incompetence as we get better at a skill).

All effective education creates tension, because just before you learn something, you're aware you don't know it (yet).

Effective marketers have the courage to create tension.

In order to change a culture, we begin with an exclusive cohort. That's where we can offer the most tension and create the most useful connections.

This is what tension feels like. The tension of being left behind.

Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting That would not let me sleep.

The black thing inside her enlarged, choking, closing her throat. She turned back to Jack.

he wanted to and she wanted him to, whether she fully realized it yet or not.

The fear of discovering his anger towards his father made his body shake.

Aaro's mouth tightened. I knew it, he said. I knew, as soon as I saw who was calling, that this would be another massive goat-fuck with international implications. It always is, with you McClouds. I'm not a McCloud. I share no genetic material with those freaks!