Quotes About Tension

Many times have I longed to broil a diplomat over a slow fire," the Aga Kaga snarled. "Tonight will see it come to pass!" "I've seen it done often at staff meetings," said Retief. "It seems to have no permanent effect.

Devers was morosely savage.

There was a thin, reedy quaver in the air, that wavered raggedly up the scale. It hovered, dropped and caught itself, gained in body, and swooped into a booming crash that had the effect of a thunderous split in a veiling curtain.

How did you get on?" he asked slowly, as though gripping each word with his teeth very carefully to prevent it from trembling before letting it out.

La tensión se aflojó poco a poco. Ella tomó entre sus manos la oscura cabeza de su amigo y lo miró. Sonrieron aliviados, divertidos, temblorosos, seguros de que no intentarían una aventura fugaz porque estaban hechos para compartir la existencia en su totalidad y emprender juntos la audacia de amarse para siempre

Since 1973, the year of the military coup that changed so many things, situating has become a little more complex because in the first three minutes of conversation you also have to guess whether the person you're speaking to was for or against the dictatorship.

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I lived in a state of contained fury that didn't manifest in tantrums or door slamming, only eternal, accusing silence.

For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.

There are no subtleties in a war zone. I think that's why comedy does so well there. It goes right for the gut. So those punch lines start penetrating the bullet-proof vests.

Even a war zone looks peaceful in most places, most of the time.

The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.

Opening night is the night before the play is ready to open.

We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.

We're eyeball to eyeball, and the other fellow just blinked.

Whenever the Germans found the Canadian Corps coming into the line, they prepared for the worst.

The Middle East is a region where oil is thicker than blood.

You don't know what pressure is until you play for $5 with only $2 in your pocket.

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.

One man; two loves. No good ever comes of that.

Culture, with us, ends in headache.

The angry people are those people who are most afraid.

A little public scandal is good once in a while - takes the tension out of the news.