Quotes About Tension

Earth is a subtle element in this conflict.

Foy has shown you the image of empires rising and falling. The tension that both binds and repels them is the path of the Way of Light. You are here for a reason, for you are one of its most important avatars.

Against the urgency of people dying in the streets, what in God's name is the point of cultural studies?...At that point, I think anybody who is into cultural studies seriously as an intellectual practice, must feel, on their pulse, its ephemerality, its insubstantiality, how little it registers, how little we've been able to change anything or get anybody to do anything. If you don't feel that as one tension in the work that you are doing, theory has let you off the hook.

Logan glanced at the clock on the cooker: nearly five minutes fast. The room was bathed in the pale orange glow of the overcast sky, the back garden a jungle of silhouettes and shadows through the window. He filled the kettle, then poured half of it out, before sticking it on to boil. The growing rumble drowned out the babble on his Airwave handset as DI Bell got his firearms team into place.

shoot you, or

razor blades and shoe laces.

But even then I knew how it was going to be, I could feel the coming silence in the long, poisonous pauses that expanded as the night progressed.

You bastard! You have brought up the sorrow my family has tried so hard to put behind us!" Cyrus shouted angrily, ignoring the constables hastening toward him.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

that secret entrance deep between her thighs clenched like the mouth of a drawstring purse.

This tension between the colonists' unabashed enjoyment of drink and their contempt for drunkenness was soon expressed in a series of laws, which are still part of the split American character.

On a soap, happiness never lasts for very long!

Having the games on TV, I've always believed it's like watching a soap opera - fans can't wait for the next episode.

Everything can happen in soccer. We have seen inexplicable things.

Multicultural societies are multi-conflict societies.

Seen through the eyes of a U.S. soldier, Afghanistan is a scary place.

It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers.

I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention.

We all agreed that violence begets violence, and you can't solve issues with more violence.

You back a big cat into a corner and somebody is going to get bloody.

Don't make me climb across this desk and slap you, because I will.

Her presence incites madness within me and yet it calms me.

All that hatred down there, " he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart.

Too bad I love you, you'd be dead by now