Quotes About Tension

Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

Life is never free of contradictions

Dating is pressure and tension. What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night?

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant.

The only tension that gets my attention, is when I stick a fork too close to my silver filling.

Worry is to human beings … what a condom is to a man with erectile dysfunction.

Sometimes you just can't get rid of a bomb!

Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

Shouldn't we stand back to back or something?" "What? Why?" "I don't know. In movies that's what they do in this kind of… situation.

Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

Let the music defuse all the tension.

Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It's people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and the right kind of music. It's a beautiful thing.

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.

Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne.

I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

Humor relieves the tension between what we see or desire but repress in order to sustain a survivable illusion about the world we live in. As such it's always potent stuff, and dangerous.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

I think above all, what we need with Iran is patience.

The message had been delivered. All they could do now was wait. Valden hated waiting.

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.