Quotes About Tension

As a matter of fact, I could argue that none of us has a center of gravity. That we're tugged and pulled by competing forces every minute and we hold on as best we can.

And there seemed nothing to be done about it. And nothing was done about it. Because I could not speak of it and William became less happy and he closed down in small ways, I could see that happen. And we lived our lives on top of this.

she seemed caught between the pincers of some intractable remorse.

There was the sense of a war having occurred. One that was not yet over.

Hello, Olive," he said, walking to her. He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance that would not go away. He told her the Thibodeaus were coming for supper. "It's only right," he said. Olive wiped sweat from her upper lip, turned to rip up a clump of onion grass. "Then that's that, Mr. President," she said. "Give your order to the cook.

You have family," Bob said. "You have a wife who hates you. Kids who are furious with you. A brother and sister who make you insane. And a nephew who used to be kind of a drip but apparently is not so much of a drip now. That's called family.

The roots of a future war were planted that fateful spring; Wilson's failure to support Japan's highest aspirations would end with bombs dropped on Pearl Harbor.

The strain of making war would be nothing compared with the strain of making peace.

Politics in modern society, then, must involve a tension between two conflicting, but complementary principles: liberty, which preserves individuals, and authority, which preserves society.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Esos hijoputas ya son difíciles como aliados, así que cuando sepan que estamos fusilando a los paisanos para que los pinte al óleo ese tipo, Goya, figúrese la que nos pueden organizar.

Sus ojos eran la guerra.

AL BURGUÉS Y AL BORBÓN, PÓLVORA Y PERDIGÓN

Toda decisión tomada durante un estado de tensión es más importante y más prolífica en resultados que la misma decisión tomada en un estado de equilibrio.

I was torn between anger and amusement.

Alekk turned back to me. There was a hint of softness in his eyes, but as he gripped my wrist it disappeared.

Love between a man and woman is war.

CORY: You ain't never gave me nothing! You ain't never done nothing but hold me back. Afraid I was gonna be better than you. All you ever did was try and make me scared of you. I used to tremble every time you called my name. Every time I heard your footsteps in the house. Wondering all the time...what's Papa gonna say if I do this?...What's he gonna say if I do that?...What's Papa gonna say if I turn on the radio? And Mama, too...she tries...but she's scared of you.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.

A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.

bombings stopped suddenly in April 2004 as a result of a strategic choice by its leadership and a subsequent secret deal with Israel.33

Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.

If you wish for peace, understand war.

She shot him a look she thought he might still remember, the same one a rattler gives right before it strikes.