Quotes About Tension

Why waste energy with wasted movements?] Very commonly, tightening and furrowing the brow while concentrating... Is the brain a muscle that works better by tensing the skull?

Qi cannot flow through a tense, knotted muscle or a locked joint.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Weakness and ambivalence lead to war.

time zig-zags like a running man avoiding bullets

Seems where you're concerned nothing is easy, so no, I'm not making this easy when everything about you makes me hard." I sucked in sharply at that blatant sexual reference, and swear I felt my nipples get hard. "Jack, I—

But there is no energy unless there is a tension of opposites; hence it is necessary to discover the opposite to the attitude of the conscious mind.

The endless dilemma of culture and nature is always a question of too much or too little, never of either-or.

Neurosis is an inner cleavage—the state of being at war with oneself.

The conflict between the two dimensions of consciousness is simply an expression of the polaristic structure of the psyche, which like any other energic system is dependent on the tension of opposites.

opposites, no judgment can be considered to be final

Then there was his dad. He wouldn't be as emotional or judgmental about the situation. After all, he'd saved all their lives. But his dad was at best unpredictable. When Cody Hoyt had his fuse lit, anything could happen. Justin wasn't sure he wanted to be the one holding the match.

The sound of the discharge within the cab was so loud, all Joe could hear was a dull buzzing in his ears.

I try to avoid confrontations with white trash, but sometimes they don't give you no selection.

the fight continued in the

His face reddened and his eyes bulged. He looked like he was ready to explode. She looked away because the intensity of his glare was almost violent in itself. Then he surprised her by snorting again and he laughed softly, shaking his head. He seemed suddenly more interested in the untouched shot and beer than he was in her confession.

SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT SUVs were parked at jaunty angles near the main house with their doors wide open, an ambulance driver was arguing with deputies to clear the way so he could back his vehicle in, and the FBI helicopter sat in a back pasture like a giant insect on a break.

turning in my guts like a torsion.

diplomacy. A dance of shadows in the darkness.

Distress, however much you tried to compartmentalize it, put you in an illogical frame of mind.

The calm before the storm that might carry us all before it.

break out in a sweat.

Aiden already knew he should say his last prayers now. Lex was going to kill him. Slowly. *** She was going to kill him. Slowly. Lex sat on the sidelines watching the last game of the night. She hated sitting out, but she had to take her turn.

Roxanne Archer designed her strategy like a four-star general—or a stalker.