Quotes About Tension

La grandeza del hombre sólo se puede medir por su capacidad de desastre El éxito sabe a miel empalagosa: el fracaso a limón con sal.

the United States is preparing a bloody drama for Latin America

Stress level: extreme. It's like she was a jar with the lid screwed on too tight, and inside the jar were pickles, angry pickles, and they were fermenting, and about to explode.

Me fascina la extrema tensión eléctrica, palpable, estremecedora, que puede circular entre un hombre y una mujer que no se conocen, sin una razón concreta, así, simplemente porque se gustan y luchan por no demostrarlo. Ninguna necesidad de hablar. Es una cuestión de muecas, de gestos. Es como una adivinanza, el enigma más importante de tu vida.

The art of creating suspense is also the art of involving the audience, so that the viewer is actually a participant in the film.

quarrelling, even as briefly as they did, resembled

You're a peach full of poison, you know that?" Mosca snapped back, but could not quite keep a hint of admiration from her tone.

However, the crowds all the while maintained their mouse-tense hush, their air of urgency. Fear. There was a reek of it everywhere, Mosca realized, in every guarded glance or falsely friendly backslap. A clammy smell, like rotten leaves. And everybody went about their lives in spite of it, because fear was part of their lives.

Even when she slept, her anxieties did not.

Just for a moment Neverfell felt as if there were an invisible wire pulled to razor tautness between her and the other girl, humming tension into the room. If she blundered towards it, it might snap or cut her, and yet she half wished it would, so that she knew where it was.

Ryan could feel himself using his words to sculpt the storm clouds of the suspicions he had started to form in the library, giving them shape at long last. He looked down at his hands, tensed to wrestle his unruly thoughts into place.

Is it any wonder that fear and anxiety have become the hallmarks of our age?

Conclusion 1: Boredom= Flared tempers= hard words

down and was rubbing his hands

Sometimes, and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.

The last act is bloody, no matter how happy the rest of the play.

On Friday night, my dad wants to have a family activity. so we go ice-skating. It's me and my mom and my dad and my sister. It's like we're all together. It's like a beautiful dream. It's like the Disney Channel. Except that my dad and I hate each other. And my mom hates herself. And my sister is humiliated by the bunch of us. And I'm secretly waiting for the inevitable devastation of our entire civilization. But except for that.

Well?" the man shouted. "With or against?" No one replied, and

This points to a central tension in our very idea and practice of democracy – it is not a simple appeal to the rule of the majority. It is also about respecting that the power of the people is limited by what's fair to minorities, what's reasonable, and by what's legal and constitutional.

Isn't the essence of adventure, be it big or small, the very idea that we might fail? Isn't it the tension that gives meaning to a story, the obstacles that steel us for the journey of life?

The reality was that the United States in 2017 was tethered to the words and actions of an emotionally overwrought, mercurial and unpredictable leader. Members of his staff had joined to purposefully block some of what they believed were the president's most dangerous impulses. It was a nervous breakdown of the executive power of the most powerful country in the world.

A quarrel is like buttermilk, the more you stir it, the more sour it grows.

Cocoa-buttered girls were stretched out on the public beach in apparently random alignments, but maybe if a weather satellite zoomed in on one of those bodies and then zoomed back out, the photos would show the curving beach itself was another woman, a fractal image made up of the particulate sunbathers. All the beaches pressed together might form female landmasses, female continents, female planets and galaxies. No wonder men felt tense.

Though class lines had been erased at the pool, race lines hardened even further, resulting in riots and racial segregation.