Quotes About Tension

Time was doing the in 'n' out thing. Probably a second, maybe two, had passed since Karen's execution. That was all. And now, with no time to think or plan, I was nearly on him. But

The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage of relaxation after another, and every stage releases tension.

The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react.

It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.

Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.

Third down and long is the toughest situation for any offensive coordinator in the NFL.

India, Pakistan series has always been decided by the government. We toured in 2003-04 when I was the captain and it was for the first time since 1989-90 that we toured Pakistan. There were times even in those days when the series was planned but would get cancelled. So you have to leave it to the government.

The pro playoff system doesn't cause the same tension. Suppose a team has a bad night? It can bounce back in the next game. In college tournament all they can hope for is the consolation, maybe.

As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous.

While we were at work there came nine or 10 of the natives to a small hill a little way from us, and stood there menacing and threatening of us, and making a great noise. At last one of them came towards us, and the rest followed at a distance.

I'm not so fascinated by these ingenue roles. I tend to gravitate towards women in plays or shows or films that are more chaotic or have something dire going on.

Portadown was the most marginalized of all the Nationalist communities in the North. Suddenly we were living in a town where, if you were Catholic, you literally couldn't walk up the street without getting into some kind of conflict.

I write as if I'm someone reading the book - often people ask if I write one strand first and then go back and seed in the other, but I don't think I could keep track of who knows what, and the tension would come out wrong, so the answer is no - I write it more or less in the order you read it.

The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.

Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife.

Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist.

On the wall of our life together hung a gun waiting to be fired in the final act.

My family lives all around me. We see each other daily. It's very, very complicated. I think that families hold us together and they split us apart.

If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

I'm not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together.

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

I went to Annapolis for tougher laws to hold cops accountable. I'm fighting to bring back the trust between the police and the community.

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.