Quotes About Tension

Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)

I've had guns pointed at me, and I can tell you that it's not the right place to be standing if some is really mad at you!

SLAP! I saw a bright flash in front of my eyes, 'Don't you try and be a fucking smart arse in here, Holland, this is Partick cop shop you're in,' the irate copper retorted. 'So fuck,' I snapped.

I did not recognise the man at the door and, in split-second time, I pointed the barrel of the fearsome looking weapon to the downstairs living room window, blew that out and then levelled it at the bedroom window above, and blew that out. The owner of the property literally shit his pants and slammed the door.

The only kicks and highs people got then were the ones dished out in nightclub fights.

Obviously it's hard for anyone to imagine, but these dance halls were powder kegs just waiting to erupt. Names were made and reputations were enhanced or blown in a flash!

That was the trouble with working the doors, too many crybabies; you were always in a 'no win' situation.

plunges back into the aquarium, barely missing the half-inch steel cable still dangling from Jonas's hand.

Signaling them to be quiet, Terry ushered them away. "My father is speaking to JAMSTEC's Board of Directors. Dr. Craven's team sold us out, stating that our facility is totally inadequate and that we are clueless about how to care for the pup. She predicted it would be dead before the end of the week. As you probably heard, Dr. Simidu is livid. As of now—

The Americans were the "main enemy" of Muslims worldwide, an angry bin Laden told a British journalist who visited him in an eastern Afghan mountain camp weeks after his arrival in Jalalabad. Saudi Arabian authorities were only "secondary enemies," he declared. As bin Laden saw it, the world had now reached "the beginning of war between Muslims and the United States."34

he was, sitting in a comfortable car, sweating blood because the man was ten minutes late. He

It's the tension we feel between the desire to erase and forget and the need to always remember, and that only happens after you know, never before.

So on every space project, there is a tension: the idealistic, impractical scientists against the stubborn, practical engineers. On the good projects, it's a creative tension that draws out the strengths of both disciplines. On the really bad ones, it's an acid that eats away at the collaboration until it's rotten.

If you're trying to scare me," I said, "it's working." "I can do a great deal more than scare you." Where do they get this stuff? "Um, if I thought all you could do was scare me, you couldn't scare me, if you see what I mean." "We'll see how funny you are in a little while." I was mildly curious about that myself.

Eventually, I decided that if he opened his eyes again and saw me there, it'd be uncomfortable for both of us, and Barlen preserve me from ever being uncomfortable.

I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it.

My favorite kind of book is a domestic drama that's grounded in reality yet slightly unhinged.

The first to five, it's anyone's game. You only have to slip up in one leg, they get a break and then you're up against it.

My siblings and I kept everything to ourselves, and rather than blowing up in an instant, my family broke apart slowly.

Watching 'Interstellar' is really like watching two movies slowly collide with each other.

When daughters react with annoyance or even anger at the smallest, seemingly innocent remarks, mothers get the feeling that talking to their daughters can be like walking on eggshells: they have to watch every word.

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.

When the snares don't hit together, it's just the most awful thing to hear.