Quotes About Tension

Ronnie snarled and Brendon roared back. Her eyes narrowed. "You roared at me?" "And I'll do it again if you can't keep your paws off my Oreos.

I hate her." "Yes. I know. In fact, I think the entire universe knows.

Dez cringed as her boss slammed his door closed. But before she could walk away, he snatched it open again. "And I better not see your ass until after the New Year!" He slammed it again. Dez glared at Bukowski as she headed back to her desk. "I didn't even do anything." "You did ask her if she killed Petrov. I think your exact words were, 'You whacked him, didn't you? You sadistic bitch.

Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.

Europeans have quarrelled since the beginning of time.

Still, it's clear that there are lots of people out there who are uncomfortable [about racism]. The Civil War was a long time ago but there are aspects of it that remain unsettled.

Maybe under all that guilt and certainty that he couldn't love again, he still wanted me. I would have liked to have found out. But I didn't have the time. Instead, I punched him.

readiness,' far far from assuring peace, has at all times and in all countries been instrumental in precipitating armed conflicts.

There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.

A theological time bomb, set to go off with dramatic consequences.

I knew when they [with Adolf Hitler] had been fighting because Eva [Braun] always reacted the same way. She would lock herself in her bedroom and cry and cry, sometimes for a long time.

If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it's like his nerves are a piece of rubber that has been stretched out. It's hard to go back to the original shape.

Over time even two armed blind men in a room can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

People love being scared, even for long periods of time.

I don't think I ever had any relationship with any showrunner, over time, with whom I didn't have conflict.

When Chong made to sit down next to her, Lilah drew her knife and stabbed the point into the earth between them. "I can see that you need some quiet time," he said and scuttled quickly away.

Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached.

There was a sudden stillness like the gap between ticks on a clock, but the next tick never coming.

You hide it well, but I can see it, Lord Verniers. You hate us. We have beaten you to obedience but it's still there, like dry tinder waiting for a spark.

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.

If we can stay with the tension of opposites long enough —sustain it, be true to it—we can sometimes become vessels within which the divine opposites come together and give birth to a new reality.

Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?