Quotes About Tension

If he had been a woman he must have screamed under the nervous tension which he was now undergoing. But that relief being denied to his virility, he clenched his teeth in misery, bringing lines about his mouth like those in the Laocoön, and corrugations between his brows.

Her suspense was terrible.

Hello Clarice...

The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.

Here, he's resting on the examining table. Pulse seventy-two. Here, he grabs the nurse's head and pulls her down to him. Here, he is subdued by the attendant. He didn't resist, by the way, though the attendant dislocated his shoulder. Do you notice the strange thing? His pulse never got over eighty-five. Even when he tore out her tongue.

she shot him in the face as he slid down the door facing and she shot him in the face as he sat on the floor and she ran to him and shot him twice in the face as he sprawled against the wall, scalp down to his chin and his hair on fire.

Qué me dice, Starling? —Digo que maldita sea, señor Crawford. ¿Qué dice usted?

A police station is a damn poor place to question anybody that you don't need to scare.

The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room full of dark stains drying.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everyone is standing around reloading

We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.

The only future we seem to walk into, in actual fact, is full of bigger and more terrible wars, wars well calculated to knock our upraised heads off those squared shoulders.

And when Franz Ferdinand pays, everybody pays!

Explosion without an objective," declared Miles Blundell, "is politics in its purest form.

It was the U.S.A., after all, and fear was in the air.

It's wrong because if you pick up a rifle, the Man picks up a machine gun, by the time you find some machine gun he's all set up to shoot rockets, begin to see a pattern?

C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre

How strange tonight, this city. As if something trembled below its surface, waiting to burst through.

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the fact that because I grew up in a dysfunctional family where there was a lot of tension and conflict, I have a tendency to fall into feeling like there's conflict all around me even when there isn't. Because struggle was a part of my life from day one, sometimes I unthinkingly create drama in my mind because it feels like "home." I forget that things can be easy, that life can go smoothly, and that I can get what I want.

moment." Ashton rose from his chair.

Having high levels of conflict with those close to you

To church congregations and denominations that are weary of strife, of continually arguing things out in a tense, judgmental atmosphere, it may come as welcome news to learn that they, too, are allowed to say 'I know not' with regard to the Bible, free to not use it to justify taking sides in every issue that comes along.