Quotes About Tension

She looked at me, her electricity flaring to life—growing more violent, more dangerous, lighting the room like a calzone stuffed with dynamite. Uh-oh Ã¢â'¬Â¦

He tried not to think about the consequences of a failure. Tried not to think about the fact that he still held Beldre hostage. Tried not to worry about the fact that

there's a fine line between love and hate

For anxiety and dread, the threat is in the future. For fear, the threat is now—in the present.

Cognitive dissonance is a state of tension that occurs when a person holds two cognitions (ideas, attitudes, beliefs, opinions) that are psychologically inconsistent with each other, such as "Smoking is a dumb thing to do because

when leaders don't have the skills to lean into vulnerability, they're not able to successfully hold the tension of the paradoxes that are inherent in entrepreneurship.

An intolerance for uncertainty is an important contributing factor to all types of anxiety. Those of us who are generally uncomfortable with uncertainty are more likely to experience anxiety in specific situations as well as to have trait anxiety and anxiety disorders.

And he stood so closely behind her that she felt his breath feather her neck. Blanche leaped away, putting a polite distance between them, her heart suddenly thundering in her chest. His body hadn't touched hers, but it might as well have, for she had felt his heat.

before himself being shot by the flight's captain.

Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.

I sometimes think that normal, everyday life is only a delusion. We walk on a think crust of earth which we call peace; and every now and again we can hear a rumble below our feet; and sometimes the crust splits and we see that, underneath there is a glowing inferno ready to erupt. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't, but it is always there.

Then there's the part where she dropped you to the ground like a rag doll. You, a complete hardass with hundreds of thousands of dollars of training behind you." Ford held out the wallet in front of Ward's face. "That's just sad, man." Ward wanted to grab it. Would have if he could move his hands. "Did you miss the part where I said 'fuck you'?" "It would be easier to take you seriously if you weren't tied to a chair.

Let's drop the war.' 'It's very hard. There's no place to drop it.

I can't have him at my place, that would never work. We'd murder each other.

Something inside me has filled up to the brim, and soon the walls will burst.

Linda recognized the car next to it as Höglund's. Linda fingered the Swiss army knife in her pocket, but this was not a night for slashing tires.

We go through life with one foot in a rose garden and the other in quick sand, he thought. - (Kurt)

Who ever said police work was supposed to be fun?

The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.

We walk through life as if we had swallowed an Easter candle, rigid and tense, always afraid that things will get out of hand. This reaction is just as harmful as open rebellion, or even more so, because it blocks our way to religious maturation.

I call it relief, though it was only the relief that a snap brings to a strain or the burst of a thunderstorm to a day of suffocation. It was at least change, and it came with a rush.

I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and the wrong.

I looked at the place with my heart beating as I had known it to do in the dentist's parlor.

These three words from her were in a flash like the glitter of a drawn blade, the jostle of the cup that my hand for weeks and weeks had held high and full to the brim and that now, even before speaking, I felt overflow in a deluge.