Quotes About Tension

Everything – the entire 400-megabuck investment, ten years of Company black operations – depends on what happens in the next few hours.

It's lovely, like the moment of stunned disbelief immediately after you finally snap and tell the world's most annoying office-mate to shut the fuck up—the moment of silence when they have no comeback and you finally had the last word.

Mug of Joe," grunts Johnny. "Mocha venti with an extra shot for me, no cream," I add. "Anything else?" I shake my head and she wanders off. Johnny looks suspicious. "Since when do you speak Starbucks?" I shrug. "It's not as if I can help it; they've got our office surrounded, and they don't like it if you try to order in English." We wait

The IT worker has to know in their bones that if they make a mistake, things can go horribly wrong. Tension and cynicism are constant companions, along with camaraderie and competitiveness. It's a lot like being a spy, or necromancer. You don't get out much, and when you do it's usually at night.

Lockhart glares at him furiously. "Sitrep, then get out." "What was that—" Pete begins, his words already in motion before he processes Lockhart's reaction. "That was the last we'll hear from a very brave woman. Or a very stupid one. Damn.

Some are dealing with the injured chargers: it's a tense and bloody business, for damaged equoids don't simply scream piteously and wait to die like horses.)

My God, I hate you! ' she flung at him. 'Do you really?' Andreas sneered, and his face was savage. 'Well, I've got news for you, my darling. What you feel for me is lukewarm compared to what I feel for you.

Jake became excruciatingly aware of her, there, right behind him. The small grunts and groans as she placed each foot carefully on the slick ground reverberated in his gut. He wanted to turn around and tell her to shut the hell up. She sounded as though she was having sex. Good sex.

anger against a kinsman was felt in the flesh, not in the marrow

She talks and talks because whenever she is silent she finds herself looking at him and her breath grows a little short.

And my mom will know what's coming and that she can't win this argument. And so she backs off. But when Dad gets like this, you can only back off so far before, all of a sudden, your back is to the wall and there's no place left to go. And Mom is already

First of all, I think all countries in the world have agreed it is not in anyone's interest to test-fire a missile, or whatever its is.

There's only so much mistrust we can take before things get much worse.

An audience can become a mob very easily.

The tenuousness of modern life can make anyone feel overwrought.

People like me make modern life intolerable.

If you're doing a movie, the minute you put a monster in it, it becomes a horror movie.

I'm never in the mood to eat or drink when I get to a show. I'm just too nerved out.

'Homeland' really is one of those shows where they start to write more or less depending on what's kind of going on in a relationship between characters.

The most difficult thing to do is drama.

My mother and father didn't love each other, so they were always fighting.

A third lesson is to constantly remind yourself of the benefits of tension, which can be easy to forget when all you want is a quiet life.

In some respects, though not many, the waiting was worse than the tunnel itself. Imagination was a killer.

He'd been coiled like a snake for years and the tension had gone slack and when he was ready to spring the spring wasn't there, but it could be recoiled.