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Quotes About Tension

The gun is not out of Irish politics.
~ Ian Paisley
Israel lost their power to intimidate during the second war with Lebanon.
~ Hassan Nasrallah
Israel can never feel that it is in a safe place.
~ Hassan Rouhani
Each time there is a conflict between Israel and Gaza, accusations fly over who started it, each side blaming the other.
~ Richard Engel
One of the greatest fears of the Arab world is a direct conflict between Israel and the Islamic State.
~ Yair Lapid
Israel cannot afford a war of attrition.
~ Avigdor Lieberman
The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.
~ David Mamet
No one truly understood what it is to exist as someone who has to do the things that Jack Bauer does.
~ Annie Wersching
There is a lot of energy between Lars and James, and sometimes that energy can erupt. I know that before I was in the band, Kirk was the guy who was often in the middle, and it was important at that time. And now I feel like sometimes I'm the guy that's in the middle between not just James and Lars, but even Kirk.
~ Robert Trujillo
The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
~ Yitzhak Shamir
I always say one of the great scenes from 'The Dirty Dozen' is where Jim Brown has to get grenades in the chimney.
~ Joe Russo
When I was playing Jimmy White in those finals, I could tell when he was under pressure.
~ Stephen Hendry
When I joined UFC, I said I want to be involved in fights where millions of fans are watching, biting their fingernails, thinking, 'What the heck is going to go on here?'
~ Eddie Alvarez
It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.
~ Mo Rocca
I crack jokes all the time. Even when I have a fight, I will make a joke, and people will laugh.
~ Nargis Fakhri
Pace non trovo e non ho da far guerra.
~ Francesco Petrarca
Faced with the numbering logic of neoliberal regimes, literature offers an intervention in order to consider identity and voice, to consider representation in both the political and artistic sense of the term... [Literature and art] cultivate tension between an unresolved past and present, between invisibility and exposure, showing the dualities of face and mask that leave their trace on identitarian struggles today.
~ Francine Masiello
vinegar of the interrogator with the oil of a flirt
~ Francine Prose
The principle of effective government is meritocracy; the principle of democracy is popular participation. These two principles can be made to work together, but there is always an underlying tension between them.
~ Francis Fukuyama
Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.
~ Francis Meehan
A Glass Eye leaped out from behind a parcked smail-trasport, blocked thier way. "Did you drop something?" Dodge asked the assassian. "Caus I think I see you..." he unheathed his sword and swung, decapitating the Glass Eye in one blow, "...head over there.
~ Frank Beddor
It was not until be landed on a high-tension oil switch near the base of Donivan's tremendous generator that he awoke to a realization of peril.
~ Frank Belknap Long
Without even looking at me, he swiped the scissors out of his belt and flung them across the room. They flashed through the air and stuck, shivering, deep in the wood of the door, right next to my head. I held my breath. "I never miss." He grinned. "Unless I mean to.
~ Frank Cottrell Boyce
What are you like inside? Don't you have feelings where you love everyone, and at the same time you hate everyone? Or—don't you have times when everything goes the way you want, but nothing feels good or right? That's what I mean," he'd say, "about my black horse and my white horse.
~ Frank Delaney