Quotes About Tension

Why? Do you plan to make out with her?" His teeth ground with so much force he feared they would soon be nothing but a fond memory. "I plan to question her." "Ah. So that's what the kids are calling it these days. Well, have fun." with that, a still-grinning Paris strolled from the room.

To stop himself from reaching out, he folded his arms over his chest, his shirt straining. Her gaze fell, locking on his left bicep. Damn. If she wanted him the way he wanted her, they were going to be in trouble. Lots and lots of pleasurable, oh, so wrong trouble. Again

Tucker palideció. —Vas a morir por eso. —Oh. Qué listo —dijo Aden, y aplaudió—. Una amenaza de muerte. ¿Y sabes lo más gracioso? Que ni siquiera es la primera que recibo hoy.

I think he's going to kiss the lobe but he whispers

What do you think we'll find?" Strider asked, his features pensive as he peered at Lucien. "And why the hell do you now look capable of murder? These last few weeks the only expression you've given us was bored. I mention the temples and hello, demon.

Sometimes war is the only path to peace.

Improving daily work is even more important than doing daily work.' The Third Way is all about ensuring that we're continually putting tension into the system, so that we're continually reinforcing habits and improving something. Resilience engineering tells us that we should routinely inject faults into the system, doing them frequently, to make them less painful.

Good evening, Empress Zanther. How are you feeling?" Zanther smiled faintly back. "I can sum it up in one word, my friend: stress.

For crying out loud, guys, stop this crap right now!" Ray's face turned red with anger, hands shaking.

I live between fearing doom and wishing for it.

Self-restraint, which is a choice, is all that separates armistice and war.

Kai's fingers bit into her shoulder hard enough to make her refocus. 'If you pass out on me now, I'm going to kill you,' he said conversationally.

All right," Irene said in the sudden pause. "Everyone stay back, or the cat's going to regret it.

Then we can discuss matters—" And at that moment the alligators burst into the room.

If New York was a piece of music, then this was the ominous pause leading up to an intense climax.

Ed. Note: really, really, REALLY not smart to do this in bar full of giant Liverpool fans

I pretty much wanted to strangle her.

Ed. Note: if this were a movie, OMINOUS BLACK CAR MUSIC would start here

When two nations had a contradictory assessment of their own military power and the issue at state was vital to both nations, war was likely.

On the eve of each war at least one of the nations miscalculated its bargaining power. In that sense every war comes from a misunderstanding. And in that sense every war is an accident.

Here's a thought. You answer what I ask and I keep not killing you." - Antiope Flint - DREAMNASIUM

Some part of me, I don't know which, contradicts the rest.

When you stress individualism, as this country does; materialism, as this country does; personal weaponry, as this country does; and racial hatred, which is part of our heritage as white Europeans; and then you add the volatile ingredient of "nothing".

Here we meet the familiar Pauline tension between the indicative and the imperative.