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Quotes About Tension

Dennis, please. I don't know what-" "Shut the fuck up, and stop playing me for an idiot. And secondly, and more importantly, I've unearthed some disturbing information about you which I want to discuss in more detail before I fill you with holes.
~ Simon Kernick
wet with it. In that same moment the room beyond the doorway was
~ Simon Kernick
Families – can't live with them – can't take them down to the river and drown them all in sacks.
~ Simon R. Green
Most of my relatives could start a fight in an empty room and then lie about who won.
~ Simon R. Green
Oh dear," Sinner said abruptly, rising to his feet. "I do believe something bad is about to happen." I looked quickly about me. "What makes you say that?" "Because Madman's music has just got all tense and dramatic.
~ Simon R. Green
spoken to Malamore like this, ever. He wheeled around towards Dirlewanger,
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
There's a thin line between love and hate. Maybe you're confusing your emotions.
~ Simone Elkeles
Doing something positive will help turn your mood around. When you smile, your body relaxes. When you experience human touch and interaction, it eases tension in your body.
~ Simone Elkeles
Do I make you nervous?" His gaze travels from my eyes to my breasts and down to where my dress meets my thighs. "In that dress you do.
~ Simone Elkeles
were you sleeping?" He chuckles. "Not by a long shot. I was just tryin' to convince myself not to make a move on you.
~ Simone Elkeles
Is that your cheap way of telling me you want to kiss me?" He looks into my eyes, his dark gaze capturing mine. " Querida , I always want to kiss you.
~ Simone Elkeles
I'm standing here, holding a half a lemon in my hand. I'm speechless, I'm excited . . . I'm a wreck. Caleb wants to be where I am.
~ Simone Elkeles
Don't try and make me feel better, Alex. I hate you." "I hate you, too.
~ Simone Elkeles
But now he stops hammering, his back still to me when he yells, "Would you stop staring at me?
~ Simone Elkeles
What did you come here for? And where's Enrique?" "He, uh, left," I say nervously. "I think I scared him away." "You? I don't think so." "I showed him what I was wearing under my coat." Alex's eyebrows shoot up.
~ Simone Elkeles
Een lange, beverige zucht ontsnapt Margaretha. Een van de adviseurs die achter haar staan, de heer Barlaymont, buigt zich naar haar toe. 'Quoi Madame, peur de ces gueux?' fluistert hij haar toe in het Frans, de taal van het hof.
~ Simone van der Vlugt
A relationship that applies the law of push and pull is the one that most survive.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
First time in history, soon or later we will see an African war.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
I was afraid of it, because I liked it. It excited me.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Stephen's face lost its tension, and I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichés, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall. We can only hover around the inexpressible with our words anyway, and there is comfort in saying what we have heard before.
~ Siri Hustvedt
I probably can't stand you, but that doesn't mean I don't love you.
~ Seth Harris
A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned.
~ Lord Byron
My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity.
~ Hayden Carruth
A mother's love is a sanctuary, Where our soul can find sweet rest, From the struggle and the tension, Of life's fast and futile quest.
~ Helen Steiner Rice