Quotes About Tension

Do you have any skills?" He gave her a cocky grin. "I'm particularly skilled at pissing off everyone around me. Quite exceptional at it, point of fact. Been known to do so by merely entering a room." She

What's got your jockstrap in a wad? (Abbie)

Gareth raked her with a nasty glare. "What are you? A fucking lawyer?" Susan:"Worse. Reporter.

Arik passed another smug look to Brian, then to Megeara. He was getting tired of her mistrust—not that he didn't deserve it. It was merely causing him aggravation—an interesting emotion that. He didn't like it. It was too aggravating.

Why did you tell me about Babette?! (Gabrielle) Leash her until I have coffee or I may have to kill her. (Rae)

Varyk's deadly gaze turned brittle. 'You really don't want to take that tone with me.' Dev crossed his arms over his chest. 'Well, I do have several others we can choose from. Contemptuous. Angry. Snide. Aggravated. How about I just settle on extreme sarcasm and we call it even?

Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.

Once people start to think they've wasted parts of their life, or they're wasting their life as they speak, that means there's going to be great dramatic and comedic tension.

We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.

What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy

In the history of life, no good news has followed that sentence ["We have to talk."].

He knows that it is impossible to live in a state of complete relaxation.

The Warrior sometimes fights with those he loves.

All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another. Of necessity, to create is a temporary state and cannot be possessed.

Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do it. Cops do it.

Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about.

In real life, holidays are extremely stressful. They're the best of times and worst of times because you have got people trying to get along with people that you don't always get along with.

Reth looked exasperated. "When is something ever not wrong in your life?" I frowned. "That's my line.

Now the line was drawn. Lucy had never thought that one of the fiercest battles of her life would be fought over a breakfast table, with quiet words carefully chosen.

When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.

This book is the successor to Mind Over Back Pain, which was published in 1984. It described a medical disorder known as the Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS), which I have had reason to believe is the major cause of the common syndromes of pain involving the neck, shoulders, back, buttocks, and limbs.

It seemed logical to conclude that their painful muscle condition might also be induced by tension. Hence, the Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS). (Myo means "muscle"; Tension Myositis Syndrome is defined here as a change of state in the muscle that is painful.)

We take life seriously and responsibly. As our lives become more complex, we generate more and more tension. This is the basis for most back pain.

Our brains have decided that feeling tense, which is the appropriate response to being tense, is too unpleasant to bear and is not as socially acceptable as having something "physically" wrong. And so the brain makes a few adjustments in circuitry and instead of looking and acting like a nervous wreck, presto—a bellyache or a backache