Quotes About Tension

Before boxing, I was this angry kid ready to fight if someone said, 'Hello.'

Eventually, after the hero and heroine, it is the antagonist who comes with the most anticipation in any film.

My basic advice to the Chinese with respect to the South China Sea is, 'Hey, guys, cool it.'

My parents used to fight a lot, and I think they fought a lot at night, and they would turn the television up to hide the sound of their fighting.

Yes, sports are very often very boring, which is good and necessary: If games were one long highlight, we wouldn't have any highlights at all.

In 'A Hijacking,' the characters are low-status people.

No," Threepio responded, "I don't think he likes you at all." A second beep failed to alter the stern tone in the taller robot's voice. "No, I don't like you, either.

I don't like you, either. C-3PO

Unfortunately, to the ordinary people, war and peace were not very different. The trouble with all Anglo-Scottish wars was that no one ever won them; they were always liable to break out again.

You always, I notice, feel the same when you are under heavy fire - not so much afraid of being hit as afraid because you don't know where you will be hit. You are wondering all the while just where the bullet will nip you, and it gives your whole body a most unpleasant sensitiveness.

Football] has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.

Fishing is the opposite of war.

A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.

As soon as he touched her she seemed to wince and stiffen. To embrace her was like embracing a jointed wooden image. And what was strange was that even when she was clasping him against her he had the feeling that she was simultaneously pushing him away with all her strength.

As time went on, the Communists and the POUM wrote more bitterly about one another than about the Fascists.

It's curious how it gets you down to have a sticky neck.

There was a sort of calculating ferocity in the boy's eye, a quite evident desire to hit or kick Winston and a consciousness of being very nearly big enough to do so.

It is a horrible thing to have to enter into the details of inter-party polemics; it is like diving into a cesspool.

The war and the revolution are inseparable.

This is war! Isn't it bloody?

It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.

The truth was that the shells were hopelessly old; someone picked up a brass fuse-cap stamped with the date, and it was 1917. The Fascist guns were of the same make and calibre as our own, and the unexploded shells were often reconditioned and fired back. There was said to be one old shell with a nickname of its own which travelled daily to and fro, never exploding.

In front of him was an enemy who was trying to kill him: in front of him, also, was a human creature, in pain and perhaps with a broken bone. Already

If you look close enough and are in a bad mood, public service seems to be composed of paperwork and personal feuds.