Quotes About Tension

Blondie pressed the gun into him even harder. "I'm gonna count to one," the man said into his ear. "Just one.

Thomas still didn't understand why she was being so touchy with him.

When neither Tick nor anyone else made a move, Jane stopped. Her body stiffened, and some kind of unspoken warning seemed to flow from her, back at them like a misty spray of poison.

respond, but his figure seemed rigid. Mark could tell his hands were clenched into fists. "Toad? We need you to sit down. And then tell us everything that's happened since we left the village." The guy didn't move. "Come on," Mark pushed.

Thomas remembered the envelope in his pocket, a thing he'd almost forgotten about until now. His fingers twitched to pull it out and read it. No one said anything. Newt's expression darkened.

Movement from Brenda grabbed Thomas's attention. He looked to see her drop the knife away from Minho and step back, absently wiping the small trace of blood there on her pants. "I really would've killed you, ya know," she said in a slightly scratchy voice. Almost husky. "Charge Jorge again and I'll sever an artery." Minho wiped at his small wound with his thumb, then looked at the bright red smear. "That's one sharp knife. Makes me like you more.

Fear seemed to hover in the air like a blizzard of black snow.

You're tearing me apart!

Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?

It is significant ..... that the English regard slackness as a vice. We, on the other hand, should vastly prefer it to tension. Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?

All Welsh knew was that he was scared shitless, and at the same time was afflicted with a choking gorge of anger that any social coercion existed in the world which could force him to be here.

At first I couldn't believe it. I waited, not moving my cock, which was rock hard thanks to this pulsing grip. But yes, here it was again. The same pattern, the same rhythm. I was being signaled by an asshole in Morse code. And it was signaling SOS.

calcium drives the contraction (tensing) of muscles and magnesium plays the equal and opposite role. The problem is not, however, too much calcium per se, but too much calcium in proportion to magnesium. This leads to tense muscles, twitches and spasms.

Secession was an unequivocal act which relieved the unbearable tension that had been building for years. It was a catharsis for pent-up fears and hostilities. It was a joyful act that caused people literally to dance in the streets. Their fierce gaiety anticipated the celebratory crowds that gathered along the Champs-Elysees and the Unter den Linden and at Pica-dilly Circus in that similarly innocent world of August 1914.

The Scriptures were written with built-in tension between texts and its resultant theology.

To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict.

Bigs jabbed a finger into my chest. Ping. It felt like an aluminum baseball bat. "I paid you," he said. "Now I want my Velma back." "Easy on the chest, will you, Bigs? I store my heart in there.

Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on?

Silence fueled anxieties, gave them their true power. Expressing them aloud was a way of releasing that tension, of letting go, if only for a brief time.

Jake,' zei de vrouw... 'Mam...

Rolling across the floor, she reached Vigor. The monsignor crouched near the top of the firepit tunnel. She handed him her gun. "Down," she ordered. "Shoot anybody that comes into view." "What about you?" "No, don't shoot me." "I mean where are you going?

Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut tu duIs jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.

I can't explain it. It's what turns you to powder, being ground between what you can't do and what you must do. You just turn to dust.

That's the closest you're going to get to a compliment from her," noted Jarreau. "And all I had to do was nearly kill myself." Jensen took another draw on his cigarette. "How is Interpol gonna deal with all this?