Quotes About Tension

I'd have liked to have leant against walls in thrillers.

I've always been somebody who was just bouncing off the walls and high tension, hyperactive, you know what I'm saying?

We came around the corner, I kissed her and after I kissed her she relaxed. And then I grabbed her and kissed her again and she was shocked! And that was what we wanted.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

Making peace is harder than making war.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

War settles nothing.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

People nowadays don't know about the Cold War and the U.S.'s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R.

And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.

Counter-insurgency warfare is not a simple thing... it's not as simple as, like, good guys versus bad guys. It is a mess.

Modern warfare has become too techno-ish for my sensibilities.

The stuff I write about doesn't, like, necessarily leave people feeling warm and fuzzy. I'm writing in a territory that's, like, contested and full of prickliness. And I find that people project their problems onto me or something.

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

Religion and politics hit nerves. There's a lot of anger about a lot of things. It's not easily resolved. I guess that's what wars are about. Wars are about prejudice and fear. Hit first before you get hit. Believe me, I know.

'The Clone Wars' is certainly set in the darkest possible time throughout the whole 'Star Wars' story.