Quotes About Tension

Fancy me between Scylla and Charybdis.

If ever there was a guilty age, this is it. Guilt and hysteria. And at the bottom of it all, like an evil dragon, lies Fear.

What we thrive on is hatred and violence; if we were a peaceable people we would have peace tomorrow.

It seems wherever I go there is drama

A continual oscillation between extremes, with bare stretches that taste like brass and leave the full flavor of emptiness.

All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string.

What is negotiation? It is the use of information and power to affect behavior within a "web of tension." If you think about this broad definition, you'll realize that you do, in fact, negotiate all the time both on your job and in your personal life.

They fell like wolves At each other's throats, Like bulls bellowing, And horses gasping for breath That have run all day.

we should never look on history as a period of peace peppered by outbreaks of war, but rather as a period of war peppered by outbreaks of peace.

Time itself now held long breaths with keen suspense.

I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'

'The Wonder Years' family was the kind where everything seemed to be bubbling and simmering with the occasional explosion. There were a lot of things that went unsaid in that family. In my family, everything is said - on the surface, you scream and yell about it, and three minutes later, you're all friends.

I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have to fight for every sequence. I wish Herzog would catch the plague, more than ever.

By the way, if you do your job on behalf of your country, you have meetings where you put your position forward strongly, and the other side does the same thing. And I've had plenty of meetings in my career that really were heated, people yelling at each other.

Yemen is one of the most dangerous spots in the world.

Yoga reduced my stress and bodily tension. It allowed me to bring my body back into balance, to emerge from my fertility struggle with my sense of self esteem and self worth intact, and to forge a stronger bond with my husband.

I carry tension in my shoulders, and I fell in love with yoga because it stretches the muscles that have become tense as a result of stress.

From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.

The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.

I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world.

Trapped' is unique because it focuses on one character who is stuck in an apartment.

If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.

I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one.

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.