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Quotes About Tension

shakedowns and restrictive new laws. Ivorians from the north, who tend to share family names and the Muslim faith with immigrants from Mali, Guinea, and Burkina Faso, came in for similar treatment. If a single word can be said to have started a war, ivoirité started Ivory Coast's. Cool B's father
~ George Packer
Spikes, " he sighed. "Heads. Walls.
~ George R. R. Martin
His dagger was out, poised at her throat. "Sing, little bird. Sing for your little life.
~ George R.R. Martin
The seeds of war are oft planted during times of peace.
~ George R.R. Martin
Your Grace," he said, when he and Cersei were alone, "I was wondering. Are you drunk, or merely stupid?
~ George R.R. Martin
Do you think it will truly come to battle between them? If they should come to some accord—" "They won't," Tyrion said. "They are too different and yet too much alike, and neither could ever stomach the other.
~ George R.R. Martin
With scarcely a moment's respite, they began to play a very different sort of song. No one sang the words, but Catelyn knew "The Rains of Castamere" when she heard it. Edwyn was hurrying toward a door. She hurried faster, driven by the music. Six quick strides and she caught him. And who are you, the proud lord said, that I must bow so low?
~ George R.R. Martin
She bleats like a bloody sheep.
~ George R.R. Martin
It might have been minutes or it might have been hours; time slept when swords woke.
~ George R.R. Martin
There is sitting and there is sitting. (...) Each one waits for the other to move, but the lion is poised, his tail twitching, while the fawn is frozen by fear, bowels turned to belly. No matter which way he bounds, the lion will have him, and he knows it.
~ George R.R. Martin
It was not a silence, just a quiet, the indrawn breath that comes before the shout.
~ George R.R. Martin
In battle, discipline beats numbers nine times of every ten.
~ George R.R. Martin
A siege is a deadly dull.
~ George R.R. Martin
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~ George Shepherd
To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
~ George Steiner
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
~ George W. Bush
We are working hard to convince both the Indians and the Pakis there's a way to deal with their problems without going to war.
~ George Walker Bush
These hoes be bitching, don't mess with them just shoot them.
~ George Washington
She could not bear to look at him just now. If she did, she might well slap him again. Or cry. Or kiss him. And never know which was right and which was wrong and which was madness.
~ George. R. R. Martin
I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
~ Georges Clemenceau
It is easier to make war than peace.
~ Georges Clemenceau
I said i love you and you said i hate you
~ georgia
when they had all forgathered in England for the first time since World War II, they should be treated to something approaching a blizzard. It did not bring out the best in them; it made them more touchy than usual
~ Gerald Durrell
Lyonesse stared wide-eyed at Lynet's hand and swallowed hard. Lynet realized that she was still holding the carving knife and had been pointing it at Lyonesse's breast. She laid the knife down slowly and gathered a few plates of food. "I'll take the rest of my dinner in my room, I think," she said.
~ Gerald Morris