Quotes About Tension

No one can deny there is a lot of pressure when Pakistan and India play, especially with the expectations of the fans at home.

Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.

I fought against Palestinians. I saw them.

As long as there are no negotiations with the Palestinians, Israel is and will continue to be in a difficult situation.

The main aim of the Palestinians is to destroy the state of Israel.

I'm suffering from the worst anxiety. I wake up reeling from panic at 4 A.M.

Some people think of the '50s as a time of innocence, but they are misremembering it or reinventing it: if you look at the papers of the time, they are filled with dread and anxiety.

We live in a world dominated by fear and paranoia.

I am so scared of the 'Paranormal Activity' movies. I didn't think I was going to be able to sleep.

It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.

That happens on a cricket field. People have a go at each other. That's fair, that's fine. It's called Test cricket. It's not a day in the park.

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Fundamentally, we have to recognize that Iran is not a partner.

In 'Payanam,' I play a passenger of a flight which is hijacked.

An IPL match may be decided when the ball passes inches beyond the grasp of a fielder on the boundary or when a direct hit catches a batsman inches short of the crease.

According to some tallies, since 1776, the United States has been at war 93 percent of its existence, passing through a mere 21 years of peace.

There is a remarkably distinctive smell emitted by fearful bureaucrats. It is acrid, rank, and seems to cling to the clothing and the hair. Acting like a pheromone, it drives senior management to form small defensive herds from which to scream homicidally at middle management that they must not tell junior staff who can fix the problem what is going on because everything, including what has just been reported on the radio, is secret.

Most falls aren't free -- there is always the tension, it seems to me, between what you are falling from and what you are falling to.

Having rejected any transcendent source, Nietzsche comes to hold that the principle of this becoming and struggle must lie in material things themselves, things considered as "dynamic quanta, in a relation of tension to all other dynamic quanta.

an oasis of tranquillity in the heart of a nightmare

Her sense of humor went south about a minute after I tied her up.

you need a bomb in the final race, so no matter what, you want a bomb in the last leg.

As a result, periods of intense conflict tend to recur with a period of roughly two generations (40–60 years). These swings in the social mood may be termed "bi-generation cycles" because they involve alternating generations that are either prone to conflict, or not.

Come on, you guys." Caraco leans back against the drying rack. "Can't you settle this some other way? Maybe you could just whip out a ruler and compare your dicks or something.