Quotes About Tension

That tour was riven with tension. But I think it was all the better for it. Pink Floyd was borne out of tension for so many years that I think it still functioned at its best when it wasn't just a band of happy misfits.

They were all running on adrenaline, which cannot just be turned off. So even when they had silent hours and felt reasonably safe with their backs against a wall, most could not fully sleep. They would nod off with their head between their knees, a rifle in one hand and a grenade in the other. It was more like being temporarily not awake than sleep.

Sitting cross-legged on the rug, puffing on a pipe, wearing a fat gold Rolex on his wrist, Khamenei asked the colonel, "If we were to release all of you now, without any conditions, how long would it be before you could begin to supply us again with spare parts for our military forces?

When asked what he did for a living, Dave would answer, "I work for local government," because if he said he was a cop, the mood instantly stiffened.

but the rank and file had sized up the coming fight inside the Citadel as the shit storm to end all shit storms.

the rank and file had sized up the coming fight inside the Citadel as the shit storm to end all shit storms.

Then he snored and I jumped and I could hear the blood in my ears and my heart going really fast and a pain like someone had blown up a really big balloon inside my chest. I wondered if I was going to have a heart attack.

All these things were shaken about within Peter Lake like pots and pans banging against the side of a peddler's swaybacked horse. It was hard to bear the weight of partial revelations which refused to venture past the tip of his tongue.

It is always easier to promote war than peace, easier to end the peace than end the war, because peace is fragile and war is durable.

Wars never end warfare, they lay the groundwork for the next.

When we need it most, it is nearly impossible to see ourselves with compassion from the slit of a narrowed mind all tensed for battle.

The key elements of storytelling are love, mystery & conflict.

Like any fine artist, he controlled the tension of the audience's longing. You desired, unwittingly, a certain kind of roll or climb, or a return to a certain portion of the air, and he fulfilled your hope slantingly, like a poet, or evaded it until you thought you would burst, and then fulfilled it surprisingly, so you gasped and cried out.

Não dá certo ter dois cozinheiros fortemente armados a esmurrar-se no meio da linha por causa de uma situação melindrosa, tendo à volta recipientes cheios de óleo a ferver e facas afiadas como navalhas.

The intention to act violently is accompanied by strong feelings of physical distress.

When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold, wafted backwards and forwards, as if in an invisible process of air conditioning, creating a pervasive physical disturbance.

There is power in the pressure of dissatisfaction, in the tension of temporary discomfort. This is the kind of pain you want in your life, the kind of pain that you immediately transform into positive new actions.

As the high mountains are intersected by deep valleys, as puritanism in one age begets infidelity in the next, as in many countries the thickness of the winter's ice will be in proportion to the number of the summer musquitoes, so was the keenness of the hostility displayed on this occasion in proportion to the warmth of the support which was manifested.  As the great man was praised, so also was he abused. 

On those days Lucinda kept as much as she could out of Sir Griffin's way, and almost snapped at the baronet when he spoke to her. Sir Griffin swore to himself that he wasn't going to be treated that way. He'd have her, by George! There are men in whose love a good deal of hatred is mixed; — who love as the huntsman loves the fox, towards the killing of which he intends to use all his energies and intellects.

Never within the memory of living politicians had political rancour been so sharp, and the feeling of injury so keen, both on the one side and on the other.

CHAPTER XVIII THE ATTORNEY'S FAMILY IS DISTURBED

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

most unhappiness springs from conflict or grief

I used to say blood might be thicker than water, but water tasted better -Star