Quotes About Tension

I don't know why you are treating me like this. The only thing I have done is carry a pistol into a movie.

I will never forget seeing Alien when it came out in 1979. I'm not that big a fan of horror, but I remember the slow build, the claustrophobic feeling on the spacecraft, this tremendous sense of impending doom.

Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding.

Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without at least one murder.

Chiapas has had its problems for many centuries. The different Indian tribes that live there have always fought among themselves.

Fear of the unknown and resentment bring stress.

It is insanity to expect to live in peace when always we are getting ready for war.

The worst battle you'll have to fight is between what you know and how you feel.

Suffering occurs when love's two hands pull your soul in two directions.

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?"

Sometimes I just want to lick David Lee Roth in the nuts

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren't involved that they don't have to go into spasms too.

The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more.

Sullivan distinguished between fear and anxiety. If a loud noise occurs, if hunger is unaddressed, if tensions of any sort increase, the baby becomes afraid. Fear actually operates as an integrating tendency; as it is expressed in crying and agitation, it draws the caregiver into an interaction that will soothe the baby and address the problem. Anxiety, in contrast, has no focus and does not arise from increasing tension in the baby herself. Anxiety is picked up from other people.

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

The answer is the answer to so many of our questions about how best to act in an emotionally tense situation: Withdraw from the conflict.

Each little field [had] one gate … so each a little battlefield… So the Germans fought in that one, and when they got pushed out they fought in the next one." Patrick Delaforce, Royal Horse Artillery, 11th Armoured Division

How messed up is it when you feel like you belong in a place that fills you with a sense of dread?

We found in surveys of Agile teams that some 80 percent to 90 percent of Agile teams perceive tension between the way the Agile team is run and the way the whole organization is run. In half of those cases, the tension was "serious.

It'll be an unholy muddle, that's for sure," he was saying. "Me and Hardin and Baker all with our claws out for the same seat. The thing will have to be done carefully or we'll end up with out tidy little Whig house divided." "Why don't you take turns?" "It's worth thinking about, but no matter how much you'd like politics to be a cotillion it just naturally wants to be a dirt fight.

Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

In a crisis, time was always the enemy.

He had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst.