Quotes About Tension

Give me the knife!" Simon held out his hand. Lincoln glanced over as he struggled with Albert. "Could you take it out of your hand first?" he said. Simon gritted his teeth and pulled the knife out.

Then came the pak-pak-pak of DeVontay's rifle.

before getting shot, he would never nail both of the armed men from thirty yards away. He could also duck into the water and swim downstream, but he didn't think he could hold his breath long enough to get out of range. That was assuming the rapids ahead were even deep enough to conceal him. "What do you want?" DeVontay said, stalling for time.

Riegger's Dichotomy sounded as though a pack of rats were being slowly tortured to death while, from time to time, a dying cow moaned.

One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.

You cannot prepare for war and peace at the same time.

I can't watch iceskating because the whole time I think they're going to fall! I get so uncomfortable.

They looked at each other. They weren't thinking anymore. The time for that had come and gone. Smashed smiles lay ahead of them. But that would be later. Lay Ter.

For the first time since 1979, we are talking to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Obama says talking to him is probably pointless, but it's a hell of a relief from Mitch McConnell.

Well, does he still have his fingernails? Making inquiries while negotiating the release of a US Army pilot from North Korea, in Time.

I am a storyteller and a researcher, and I'm sorry the world has a hard time straddling the tension of those two things, but that's who I am.

Do you ever feel like screaming?' Clary asked him [Jace]. 'Some of the time.

We can't be fighting everybody at one time.

I happen to like things that are funny and dramatic at the same time. I don't see the difference.

I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time.

Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.

Then why are we being shot at? (Syd) 'Cause the sonofabitch can't tell time. (Steele)

I hate you! (Artemis) Oh, please don't get my hopes up. You almost gave me a hard-on with that thought. At least tell me this time your hatred will last more than five minutes. (Acheron)

Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action.

The key word for my book The Woman in Black is unsettling... because you're not terrified all of the time or even frightened, but you're unsettled and once you're unsettled, then the door's open.

'Buried Alive' is a little scary, but also a comedy at the same time.

Biggie came at a time just like Hitler did with the Germans.

So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant And breathe short-winded accents of new broils To be commenced in stronds afar remote.