Quotes About Tension

His belly cramped with apprehension

Sandstorm shot Fireheart a wry look.

No." Hollypaw sat down, wishing Jaypaw would stop messing around with the herbs and talk to her properly. "He's just been so tired lately, and grumpy. Every time I talk to him he practically nips my whiskers off.

Breezepelt flinched at the mention of the Dark Forest.

Bumblestripe shrugged. "He snapped at Hazeltail for getting in the way, hissed at Cherrypaw for trampling on Ferncloud's moss, and ordered Foxleap and Toadstep to fetch comfrey." He glanced warily over his shoulder. "So I guess he's fine.

Ashfur lashed his tail. "Now will you do something?" he challenged Graystripe.

In a voice that was taut with shock and disbelief, Firestar called a name Lionpaw had only ever heard mentioned in nursery stories. "Graystripe!

If I'd wanted you dead five minutes ago, you'd have died five minutes ago.

Wind varies in its emotional effect on humans depending on ions in the atmosphere. A hot, dry, dusty wind-generates positive ions that cause increased tension and irritability…on the other hand, waterfalls, pounding surf, and the aftermath of a thunderstorm release negative ions that clear airborne particles, relieve stress, and boost energy.

inner conflicts that kept him

No woman had ever done this to him: made him burn, tore him open, tried his patience to its very limits. People

Discontented women are like pressure cookers. The steam rises and one day they just reach boiling point.

We seem to be sitting around waiting for the next fucking disaster." he said, which went into the official log as - DCI Seawoll felt that our operational posture was too reactive.

Richmond won on points, but only because one of them had a flask full of coffee.

This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

In war, no variable is more important, and less easy to control, than the element of surprise.

Families necessitate energetic concealment of the obvious, to be plain about it. To be in a family is to work strenuously to suppress the truth, for reasons I cannot determine, and the shadow, when it came, caused competing strategies in the family I occupied.

This character trait ("flaw" is probably a better word) had caused some tension with Anna early in our marriage. But

implying that we had not yet made up our minds whether to end our tightening campaign or to raise rates.

As the panic worsened,

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.