Quotes About Tension

General Apollon Diaz was currently in power and leaned toward the position of the hawks, which was to meet force with force. The proposal had already been made at Parliament (which stood in permanent emergency session) to counterattack: to pull twice the number of teeth from the political prisoners the abductors were demanding and mail them poste restante, as the address of guerrilla headquarters was unknown.

Mi ha carezzato i capelli e il mio cuore ha martellato così forte che ho pensato: se mi bacia muoio. Purtroppo mi ha risparmiato.

Men will find a reason to kill each other anywhere

over her sides, gripping, then

I think they were afraid that some of us would try to kill ourselves or something because they looked very tense and one of them kept touching his beard.

The dead man and the living man exchanged a long look. Then the youth cautiously put one hand behind him and brought it against a tree. Leaning upon this he retreated, step by step, with his face still toward the thing. He feared that if he turned his back the body might spring up and stealthily pursue him.

The lieutenant of the youth's company was shot in the hand. He began to swear so wondrously that a nervous laugh went along the regimental line. The officer's profanity sounded conventional. It relieved the tightened senses of the new men. It was as if he had hit his fingers with a tack hammer at home.

failure at one point could throw the momentum out of balance and result in chaos. All in that room were aware

El hecho de que oficiales y soldados rasos se vinieran abajo bajo la constante tensión y vulnerabilidad no es nada extraordinario. Lo verdaderamente extraordinario es que tantos hombres no se hundiesen.

They hid, Bos came over the hill, looked puzzled, and Custer let loose with a bullet that whizzed over his brother's head. Bos turned

The German today is like the June Bride. He knows he is going to get it, but he doesn't know how big it is going to be.

For the world seems never to offer anything worthwhile without also providing a dreadful opposite.

Catholic versus Protestant, essentially. It's that kind of fight. ... And it goes on to this day. Will we never learn? Who knows? Religion. Shit it.

We'll spare your life, I promise," hissed Odysseus. "Only speak quickly. And quietly. I have shaky hands and this blade against your throat might just slip and find its way into your windpipe if you aren't quick, clear, and concise.

Dealing with cops is like being around a skittish horse: No sudden movements, nothing shiny or loud. Zero jokes.

Mister, we deal in lead.

Bool! The end.

Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick.

Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.

I deal in lead! Roland called, and Eddie felt goose-bumps pebble his arms.

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown

When you couldn't sleep, when you were afraid to look around because of what you might see, time elongated and grew sharp teeth.

There were so many wrongs piling up on both sides, so much of the past being dragged into the present, that living there was like carving the story of your life on to a sepulchral monument.

a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.