Quotes About Tension

Never offend an enemy in a small way.

As we left the bar, we saw two men fighting at the wooden pump. One was short and stocky: he was pummelling a tall gangling creature with loose flapping arms ... Edwin Forrest was giving a much deserved beating to William de la Touche Clancey, the Tory sodomite.

There are things that must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose.

The thought of retirement set his nerves twitching and straining: he always prayed that death would come first.

So much of war is sitting around and doing nothing, waiting for somebody else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left it doesn't seem worth even starting a train of thought.

No shots had been fired; we were alive; death had withdrawn perhaps as far as the next canal.

So much of war is sitting around doing nothing, waiting for someone else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left, it doesn't seem worth starting even a train of thought.

So much of the war is sitting around and doing nothing, waiting for somebody else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left it doesn't seem worth starting even a train of thought.

It gives me no pleasure to do this,' said Sharrowkyn. 'You are nothing to me, simply a rabid dog that needs to be put down.

For a long time, Ben had sensed that something was wrong. He had not heard his parents scream or shout at one another for days. He seldom even heard them argue. Instead they would just quit talking to each other until the whole house filled with a deep and disturbing quiet. Those silences gradually became longer and much more frequent. His father seemed to be gone more and more.

Since Shelly Knotek came into his life, Ron's world was now a black hole of money trouble, legal trouble, and family trouble. And Shelly was right there, stirring the pot, making things worse and worse.

He was always wondering when the other shoe would drop and Shelly would go into attack mode.

dropped her hands, which were clenched

If Anna passed by, it brought Lara a shudder of relief. Only then could Lara take a breath. A very deep one.

Your conflicts reflect subminds in dispute. Such is the human condition

There is no man, and no place, without war.

Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it.

It's weird coming into a game in the later innings, in a World Series game.

The trouble with the First World War, for example, is that people think war was inevitable, but I don't agree. If you look at the Cold War, you could argue that a war was bound to happen between the Soviet Union and its allies and the United States and its allies, but it didn't.

We're in a world war.

In my experience, academia is a World War 1 kind of a domain, and I do my best to avoid all that trench warfare.

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.

Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain.