Quotes About Tension

I believe that in intense conflict, far from becoming sharper, differences melt away.

To me, as an audience member, movies always come to a screeching halt when they get to their action scenes. They always feel like they drag on to me.

Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family.

There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom.

A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.

He is in a gunfight right now. I'm gonna have to take a message.

If we have to talk to the devil to guarantee the safety and future of the Mexican people in the U.S., Mexico will talk to the devil.

You can never entirely rest comfortably with Michael Black or Michael Paynes.

The situation of any leader in the Middle East is not easy.

There is a conflict in the Middle East between two entities, and they're both right, each in their own way.

There are no short cuts, no detours in the Middle East.

Nothing in the Middle East is ever forgotten or forgiven.

On the global scale, if there's a shaky Middle East, there's a shaky world.

Around us in the Middle East there is total chaos. I'm not willing to give up on my land for this chaos.

In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.

Cuba is only 90 miles from Florida, but for a long time, the distance between our two countries seemed a lot greater.

But even before I was in the military, I was extremely jumpy when asleep.

Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and fettered relationship.

If we want to reduce stress and tension, we need to be aware that we've been running a lot. True happiness isn't found in success, money, fame, or power. True happiness should be found in the here and now. With that kind of insight, you can truly relax.

If you can be aware that you have a living body, and notice when there's tension in your body, that's already an important insight.

Incredible how rapidly the best relationship, if it is stressed beyond its capacity, wears thin and finally exhausts itself.

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

Tess and Clare unconsciously studied each other, ever balanced on the edge of a passion, yet apparently keeping out of it. All the while they were converging, under an irresistible law, as surely as two streams in one vale.