Quotes About Tension

Every married man who wants peace in the relationship, should learn the trick to avoid that one question - 'How is the food?'

There's always a tone that you have to hit right in horror. With the blood, you want to make sure that it makes sense all along.

Peace is the time of waiting for war. A time of preparation, or a time of wilful ignorance, blind, blinkered and prattling behind secure walls.

Corporal Clasp crawled up beside him. 'That's one of those Fuckeral's, isn't it?

When wealth ascends to a point where the majority of the poor finally comprehend that it is, for each of them, unattainable, then all civility collapses, and anarchy prevails.

these voices give music to war…

Ain't nothing so tensifying as running for your life at a snail's pace

Ain't nothing so tensifying as running for your life at a snail's pace, let me tell you

Rallick followed this by driving his other knife into Orr's chest.

any exchange of words with a woman was fraught with her torturer's array of deadly implements, each one hovering at the very edge of a man's comprehension.

An army that waits is soon an army at war with itself

A releasing of said tension, a dying of the sparks. I now fear getting depressed." "The risk of achieving what you wish for.

Seeing victory only moments away stripped caution from the hunters.

It slowly dawned on the thief that a duel was but moments away.

Rage and unbearable pain meshed together like twin strands in an ever-tightening rope.

Kalam knelt beside Quick Ben, studied the man's face for a moment, the slack expression, the closed eyes. Then he slapped the wizard. Hard. Quick Ben swore, then glared up at the assassin. 'I should crush you like a bug, Kalam.' 'Right now, I think,' he rumbled in reply, 'a bug's fart might blow you right off this ship, Quick.

Her grip bit into his arm.

Crokus jumped at a faint plopping sound from the stairwell. He laid his hands on his knives, tensing.

Does it ever strike you, Finadd, that peace leads to an indulgence in strife?' 'No, since your statement is nonsensical. The opposite of peace is war, while war is an extreme expression of strife. By your argument, life is characterized as an oscillation between strife during peace and strife during war.' 'Not entirely nonsensical, then,' Turudal Brizad said.

He swung a hard, challenging gaze to the sergeant.

Your days are numbered, you little ignorant peckerwoods." Monty Schaffer stood with feet spread, fists tightly balled on his hips—an angry man ready to strike. But instead of striking, he unholstered

An explosion groans to the west of them, and Arrow involuntarily looks in the direction of the sound. Nermin, who hasn't looked, smiles. 'I think they're trying to send us a message.' 'What is the message?' she asks as another shell lands in the same area. Nermin shrugs. 'I don't know. I'm making a special effort not to listen.

What did you—" He swallowed. His voice was raspy. "What did you do to him?" "Sightseeing. Your turn." He shivered. "No, that's all right.

Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.