Quotes About Tension

And I felt antagonism for all these things when I was with La Maga, for we loved each other in a sort of dialectic of magnet and iron filings, attack and defense, handball and wall.

And I am not pleased I am not very pleased None of this fits into my notion of "things going very well

Called her a whore and attacked her walls, tearing down her posters and throwing her books everywhere. I found out because some whitegirl ran up and said, Excuse me, but your stupid roommate is going insane, and I had to bolt upstairs and put him in a headlock.

A knot just beneath her skin, tight and secretive as a plot. And at that moment, for reasons you will never quite understand, you are overcome by the feeling, the premonition that something in your life is about to change...

Nevertheless, I stabbed him.

suspending her body out over the ditch like a piano swinging from a crane.

And he became more and more miserable, until he felt he would explode like a New Year firecracker, where powder is packed into a paper cylinder, and remains quiet until the fuse is lit and it tears itself apart in the explosion.

Jacob didn't exactly smile, but his last look at me from inside the cab was nothing short of smoldering. My lips tingled in response, as if it was his soft mouth, not his eyes, that had just raked me. The cab pulled away from the curb. Mom sighed. I would have sighed, too, except I didn't want to be one of those pathetic girls who pined for their boyfriends . . . even though I was pining. And worrying.

Why did you push her ?' Rosa screams again. I realise she's pointing at me.

throughout the whole history of Christianity there has been a tension between the past and the present, between the given and the sought, between revelation as a deposit in some sense and revelation as the goal of an endeavor, between the faith to be conserved and the truth to be acquired. The tension has not been resolved by the centuries of Christian thought, but a solution cannot be attempted without taking them into account.

When she started crying, all he wanted to do was hit her.

Bloody doctor hadn't got there yet; if he'd been there, I'd have smashed his face in for not being there yet—which is how your mind works when you're in that sort of a state.

Still, it was better than sitting around playing cards waiting to have your throat cut.

Nothing is so awkward as a demonstration of humanity by the enemy.

Why fight with an enemy who flees way at the mere twang of our bow

The very least we can conclude is that our twenty-thousandth bomb . . . will not in any deep strategic sense offset their two-thousandth.

We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.

Teller would pay dearly for what he had said. Later that summer, on a visit to Los Alamos, Teller spotted an old friend, Bob Christy, in the dining hall. Walking over to greet him with outstretched hand, Teller was stunned when Christy refused to shake hands and abruptly turned his back. Standing close by was a furious Rabi, who said, "I won't shake your hand, either, Edward." Stunned, Teller went back to his hotel room and packed his bags.

I looked down, unable to meet the intensity in Nat's eyes. Tonight, my crush for Nat had moved beyond a crush. The chemistry between us was undeniable, and the more we clashed, the more we wanted each other." - Summer, Perfect Summer

Oh dear," Lionel says from the front, hefting his rifle, "it seems that we've kicked a hornet's nest here. Do those look like elite troops to anyone else?", FADE by Kailin Gow

dancing with someone who is causing you pain is a bit like trying to smile while having a tooth extracted.

What is the matter with you, woman?!

There is no common ground between us and Iran.

There are nothing but hardliners in Iran.