Quotes About Tension

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

In football you sometimes have beauty and cruelty together.

Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing.

We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together.... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.

...being torn apart by far too many loyalties that could not possibly live together in the same brain.

They always quarreled bitterly when they were alone together—or they made love.

She thought for one moment that he was going to kiss her and longed for the touch of his lips.

He did not immediately answer. Their eyes locked and neither looked away. Camille swallowed as he pushed away from the counter and came toward her. He set one hand on the table beside hers and the other on the back of her chair. He drew breath as though to say something, but then leaned over her instead and kissed her.

She was finding it increasingly painful to hate him.

But he suppressed the thought. It could bring no peace at all, but only shatter it.

She hastily tried to shut the door. But his forearm shot up and held it open. They stared at each other for several silent moments. "What are you doing here?" she demanded at last. It was only at that moment that she realized Lady Baird was standing behind him. "Pitting my strength against yours to hold the door open," he said in his usual bored, rather haughty tone. "It is a battle you cannot win, Catherine. Let us in?

He spends his time quarreling with her when they are together, and giving off sparks of jealousy when she talks to someone else.

She had to get away. She could not stay this close to him and yet this far away from him for much longer.

La verità è che i Classici sono in declino per definizione [...] La sensazione di una perdita imminente, il perenne timore che gli studi classici stiano per scomparire per sempre è ciò che [...] conferisce a queste discipline l'energia e la tensione di cui ritengo siano ancora intrise.

Past colliding with present promised disaster.

She was held in the tension just before movement, about to walk back toward the house. Later she would think, If I had turned away, I'd have missed the moment he fell in love. He would not remember it that way. What he experienced was not so much the beginning of love as a cessation of pain.

Doc's idea of clarifyin' a point of contention came awful close to spitting in a man's eye.

The door slammed shut behind her, and a moment later she heard what sounded like a tennis shoe being thrown against the wooden door. "I hate you!" Maggy screamed.

The human organism is built for tension and relaxation, work and sleep. The principle of life is rhythm.

Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligences and carriages usually stopped.

Dla umysÅ'u ludzkiego nie ma nic bardziej bolesnego jak ten stan gÅ'uchego zastoju i bezsilnej pewnoÅ›ci, który nastÄ™puje po krytycznym momencie napiÄ™cia uczu? spowodowanego przez szereg szybko po sobie nastÄ™pujÄ…cych wypadków i który odbiera duszy zarówno nadziejÄ™ jak i obawÄ™.

I could see that if the standoff continued for at least a few more hours, lives would be saved, all of them or most of them. There would be no attack and the children and their parents

The truth of the matter is that we are careening into our darkest moment yet, and we look ridiculous doing it.

Generally speaking, it's difficult not to be at least mildly terrified of a girl who might, at any moment, take her shirt off. But