Quotes About Tension

War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to face it.

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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Maxima bella ex levissimis causis:

If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.

Q: What's the key to suspense? A: I'll tell you later.

The girl remains on the ground. He looks at her and she looks at him and the air feels at once static and loaded, as if there is some kind of undersound his ear can't quite decipher. Like after a bell rings. That's how it is between them. There is something celestial about her, her skin a pale color, but a paleness of the softest gray-white imaginable, as if she had been soaking for years in a bath of moonlight.

people who read short stories love endings that make them want to gargle with Drano or nosedive off a skyscraper. But

the Molotov walkout" was a watershed. It made it "transparently clear that Russia was not interested in European reconstruction, but in chaos.

Netanyahu is anxious, afraid, [and] sweating.

When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

The Middle East is a region where predictions go to die.

The main problem that we have in Lebanon, and in the region, is we don't have a real peace process and I think this is the main focal problem that we have in the region.

Well, peace is a very expensive commodity in my country, as well as in my region.

You know the Middle East is going crazy when Lebanon is the most peaceful place in the region.

I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.

Even if you look at the 'Paranormal Activity' movies, at the end of the movie things get really crazy and nutty, but they all start in a very mundane situation that people can relate to, and that's also to some degree what we tried to do in 'Chernobyl Diaries.'

Boston is pretty infamous for race relations.

Frankly I'm a bit concerned when it comes to U.S.-China relations.

Mr. Putin has to understand that if he does something against us Belarusians, it will seriously damage the relationship between the Russian and Belarusian people.

I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.

I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration.