Quotes About Tension

Stick with me, kids. It's about to get so good... -A

Holy shit," Spencer said. She held her T-shirt up against her naked chest. "What is it? Wren asked. Spencer stepped back. Her throat was dry. "Oh," she croaked. "Oh," Wren echoed. Melissa stood outside the window, her hair messay and Medusa-like, her face absolutely expressionless. A cigarette shook in her tiny, usually steady fingers. "I didn't know you smoked," Spencer finally said.

Tell me this isn't happening," she murmured. "I was about to ask you the same thing," Aria said.

Before Ethan went all Incredible Hulk on Thayer's ass, the most exciting thing to happen was a spray-cheese fight some of the morons from the wrestling team got into on the back patio.

When Courtney appeared from the hallway, a whisper of a smile emerged on her eerily familiar face; Spencer's legs dissolved into Jell-O. Aria let out a small squeak.

A small way to have control in a tense situation, I suppose

His controlled composure was making Maddox feel edgy. He could be one of those people who seemed perfectly calm but then randomly snapped.

Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally.

These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.

You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

After that one fitnah, every time it calms down in one place, it starts somewhere else.

Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.

Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

Another door swung open, and another guard appeared, this time with Gabrielle, who wore a black catsuit and rappelling harness.

Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression--how long before the pot boiled over.

After all, this is a guy that tried to kill my dad at one time.

Don't you know. I am a ticking time bomb. I'm going to explode. This time, I may never be able to recover from it!

I've never known a time when the in-fighting in the Labour Party was so bitter.

The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time.

Anything will worry me. I may not get a check for the light bill off in time and I just get to worrying. I'm a worrywart.