Quotes About Tension

Are you sure the two of you aren't married? (Bavel) Why do you ask? (Ewan) You can barely stand to speak to each other, and yet when the lady walks off you look as if you can already taste her. Smacks of marriage to me. (Bavel)

Are we really going to have to do this the hard way?" Farkas sighed. "Going forward, may I suggest that designation be restricted only to operations that include arming our self-destruct mechanism while inside an alien vessel?" Commander Roach asked.

Everything in this world is about conflict because this is the kind of world that humans are born into.

But lately, when I'm drunk, I feel a hostility that I've never known before. It is a tension deep in my gut that makes me want to yell until my face is red, knock over glasses with the back of my hand, and kick people I don't know in the shins.

Relax when you need to, but be tense when you need to. The point is to never mix up the two.

Hurry and you can have the big crybaby for first kill.

Yes, just like those flowers. There's something strained, but there's beauty in that. Something like that

Karigan," Alton said. "I would . . . I . . . well, it would please me . . . What I want to say . . ." One moment he was speaking as a polished aristocrat should, the next he couldn't speak at all.

I make you nervous," he whispered. It wasn't a question, but a statement. The smirk on his face told me he knew it was true. - Finn (Forsaken)

Because I carried the war in me, I foresaw it.

The state of crisis is the real war; the equilibrium is nothing but its reflex.

Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war.

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

About this unpleasant situation Boltzmann wrote: "I hate this continuous secret battle; I know much better how to integrate than how to intrigue.

La sua anima-bestia, di ibrido, non era che un vuoto crocicchio, dove le strade del dolore e della conoscenza si intersecavano senza tensione vitale, lontanando nel tempo, verso deserti di stupidità.

L'umorismo va distinto dall'ironia. ?ando si fa dell'ironia si ride degli altri. ?ando si fa dell'umorismo si ride con gli altri. L'ironia ingenera tensioni e confli?i. L'umorismo quando usato nella misura giusta e nel momento giusto (e se non è usato nella misura giusta e nel momento giusto non è umorismo) è il solvente per eccellenza per sgonfiare tensioni, risolvere situazioni altrimenti penose, facilitare rapporti e relazioni umane.

hot, I was shivering. Billy, though,

a veces tengo miedo de sentir el dualismo de fuerzas que me impulsan

Estás en medio de la gente, callada, encogida, con aire de querer escapar a cada instante.

Beginning in 1917 and going into the 1920s, so-called race riots, which were essentially lynchings on a grander scale, erupted in East St. Louis, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and numerous other cities.75 Though labeled "riots," these outbursts were more like rampages, where whites went hunting for African Americans to pummel, burn, and torture.

Sweet had also been in Washington, D.C., during the Red Summer 1919, when police allowed whites to rampage for days slaughtering black people. The tide turned only after returning African American veterans had seen enough, polished their rifles, and began shooting.93

1863 Draft Riots:

This was how he saw himself: balancing on the event horizon, trying not to get sucked into the black hole, trying to hang on to the light.

He looks me right in the eye, and all of a sudden I want to kiss him. [...] I almost take a step forward, there's that kind of draw. It's almost spiritual. Does he feel it too? He looks at me like he does.