Quotes About Tension

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.

I think, specifically with the horror genre, you have to make it very believable because it can come across ridiculous.

The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

I think I'm always interested in the people who aren't generals or master spies or royalty. The people caught in the crossfire.

That film 'Memento' creeped me out. I was looking over my back through the whole thing. I get more creeped out than scared and spill popcorn all over the place.

Everybody's got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.

Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.

Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.

The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.

If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.

It doesn't take the most powerful nations on Earth to create the next global conflict. Just the will of a single man.

When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.

Vions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.

In the heart of man, there is a constant conflict between the flesh and the spirit.

There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it.

By god, DH Lawrence was right when he said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?

It's, like, one of them drug dealer boats," Vic says, looking through his magic sight. "Five guys on it. Headed our way." He fires another round. "Correction. Four guys on it." Boom. "Correction, they're not headed our way anymore." Boom. A fireball erupts from the ocean two hundred feet away. "Correction. No boat.

Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.

Sorry, baby. Let's get out of here," he says, speaking with the intense, strained tones of a man with an erection.

But what little I'd heard had left me amazed by how clever people were at finding ways to make each other crazy and miserable.

He is full of adrenaline, his nerves are shot, and his mind is cluttered up with free-floating anxiety-floating around on an ocean of generalized terror.