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Quotes About Tension

Life is a series of pulls back and forth.
~ Mitch Albom
A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle." Sounds like a wrestling match, I say. "A wrestling match." He laughs. "Yes, you could describe life that way. " So which side wins, I ask? "Which side wins?" He smiles at me, the crinkled eyes, the crooked teeth. "Love wins. Love always wins.
~ Mitch Albom
La vida es una serie de tirones hacia atrás y hacia adelante. Quieres hacer una cosa pero estás obligado hacer otra diferente. Algo te hace daño, pero tú sabes que no debería hacértelo. Das por supuestas ciertas cosas, aunque sabes que no deberías dar nada por supuesto. Es una tensión de opuestos, como una goma elástica estirada. Y la mayoría de nosotros vive en un punto intermedio.
~ Mitch Albom
The tension of opposites? "Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. "A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.
~ Mitch Albom
Have I told you about the tension of opposites? he says. The tension of opposites? Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.
~ Mitch Albom
Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Somethings hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle. Which side wins? Love wins. Love always wins.
~ Mitch Albom
A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.
~ Mitch Albom
War never stops; it only pauses.
~ Mitch Albom
Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side wins? Love wins. Love always wins.
~ Mitch Albom
Every muscle he has was as tight as a piano wire.
~ Mitch Albom
The good times are killing me
~ Modest Mouse
and when the tension receded there was calm, the calm that is called before the storm, but is in reality the foundation of a human life, waiting there for us between the steps of our march to our mortality, when we are compelled to pause and not act but be.
~ Mohsin Hamid
when it would be squarely in the path of heavy machine-gun and rocket fire as fighters advanced into this part of town: a view like staring down the barrel of a rifle. Location, location, location, the realtors say. Geography
~ Mohsin Hamid
Soon a rhythm was established, and it was thereafter rare that more than a few waking hours would pass without contact between them, and they found themselves in those early days of their romance growing hungry, touching each other, but without bodily adjacency, without release. They had begun, each of them, to be penetrated, but they had not yet kissed.
~ Mohsin Hamid
they faced it not with bravery, exactly, and not with panic either, not mostly, but instead with a resignation shot through with moments of tension, with tension ebbing and flowing, and when the tension receded there was calm, the calm that is called the calm before the storm, but is in reality the foundation of a human life, waiting there for us between the steps of our march to our mortality, when we are compelled to pause and not act but be.
~ Mohsin Hamid
and they faced it not with bravery, exactly, and not with panic either, not mostly, but instead with a resignation shot through with moments of tension, with tension ebbing and flowing, and when the tension receded there was calm, the calm that is called the calm before the storm, but is in reality the foundation of a human life, waiting there for us between the steps of our march to our mortality, when we are compelled to pause and not act but be.
~ Mohsin Hamid
he wondered if this new way of speaking to one another, this unkindness that was now creeping into their words from time to time, was a sign of where they were headed.
~ Mohsin Hamid
In Pakistan, my friends and family are frightened, as they should be when the
~ Mohsin Hamid
The air was hot and wet, as if it had absorbed the sweat of countless bodies. It dripped also with scandal.
~ Monica Ali
The tension of opposites: Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.
~ Morrie Schwartz
She blew out a breath between gritted teeth. "Sometimes I really want to"—a frustrated sound—"bite you!" He froze. "I might let you." "I won't do it if you'd enjoy it.
~ Nalini Singh
His voice wasn't loud, but there was a quality to it that made Matt shiver even though he—for once—wasn't the one in trouble.
~ Nancy Farmer
In twenty cities, or about that number, the godly [Huguenots] have been slaughtered by raging mobs," Calvin noted grimly to his chief disciple, Théodore Beza, in a letter written in May 1561. In Provence, enraged Protestants ransacked Catholic churches and destroyed relics in retaliation.
~ Nancy Goldstone
Was true love when you wanted to slap someone and kiss him madly at the same time?
~ Nancy Werlin