Quotes About Tension

Everyday ask yourself the question, "Do I want to experience Peace of Mind or do I want to experience Conflict ?"

Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Positive thoughts (joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness) have positive results (enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love). - Negative thoughts (judgment, unworthiness, mistrust, resentment, fear) produce negative results (tension, anxiety, alienation, anger, fatigue).

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

The worst hatred is that of relatives.

There is nothing certain about war except that one side won't win.

Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

It is always dullest before the yawn.

For the maintenance of peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks which forerun cannon-shots.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pinpricks that precede cannon shots.

Worry is a state of mind based on fear.

I come not to bring negative peace, but I come to bring positive peace. I come not to bring this old peace which is merely the absence of tension; I come to bring a positive peace which is the presence of justice and the Kingdom of God. Peace is not merely the absence of something, but it's the presence of something.

the filmmaker must always seek a new tension with reality and constantly negate himself in order to continue to create a new artistic involvement. (?shima 1992: 48, translated by Dawn Lawson)

No one knows what it means to be born and to live on the brink, between two worlds....to love and hate both, to hesitate and waver all one's life. To have two homelands and yet have none. To be everywhere at home and to remain forever a stranger. In short, to be torn on a rack, but as both victim and torturer at once.

Our sense of humor is a gift from God that should be controlled as well as cultivated. Clean, wholesome humor will relax tension and relieve difficult situations. Leaders can use it to displace tension with a sense of normal.

Will you get off me! But I'm giving you CPR- I will die before kissing you, Hollywood. Z tried to sit up, his breathing heavy. Don't even think about it.

I'm sorry, he muttered. If I... uh, hurt your feelings or something. She glared at him. I'm not hurt. I'm pissed off and sexually frustrated. His head snapped back on his spine. Well... then. Okaaaaay.

Bien, entonces déjeme tomarle la tensión en el otro brazo. Y voy a tener que pedirle que se quite la camisa. El doctor querrá ver hasta dónde ha subido la infección. La boca de Rehvenge esbozó una sonrisa mientras se llevaba las manos al botón superior de su camisa. —Si sigues así voy a terminar desnudo.

Unnerved, Summerset moved quickly to the communication center. Roarke, the lieutenant has just come in from outside. She wore no outer gear. She looks very bad. Where is she? She's heading up. Roarke, I insulted her and...she apologized to me. Something must be done.

Drop the fucking weapon, you fucking motherfucker or I'll fucking scramble your fucking brains. Hands up! Hands where I can fucking see them, you fucking cocksucker. You fucking breathe wrong, you fucking blink wrong, and I will fuck you up. Fucker. Jacobsen snarled it as he shoved Marcell to the ground. On your fucking face, you fucking shit coward. Stream my lieutenant in the fucking back? Fuck you.

Who's with her? Roarke asked, though he already knew. It was just like her. With her? Oh, ah, hmmm. Webster. Silence fell, a clatter of broken bricks. Peabody folded her hands in her pockets and prepared for the explosion to follow. I see. When Roarke simply turned back to the screen and continued, she didn't know whether to be relieved or scared to death.

When she heard the door behind her open, she spoke without turning. You've got a man who doesn't particularly like women as a species, considers them inferior. Well, to be fair, considers everyone inferior, but I got a definitive vibe women were lowest on his feeding chain. Called me 'miss,' she grumbled. And lived? Roarke stepped behind her and began rubbing her shoulders.