Quotes About Tension

She just kept on criticizing me, but for contradictory reasons.

If you ask her, I'll kill you," says Callie pleasantly. And so it is that when Naomi and Mona are introduced—really, reintroduced—Mona prepares to ask her immediately.

Casus Belli. It means an incident that's used to justify a war...

Wars have always started over religion.

Hugo, child, have I ever said that I loved you? Do you know that your fists are clenched? You aren't going to strike me-' She had smiled. Then he had burst into tears. He had never mentioned love either, but it had not occurred to him that it might not be identical with what they had enjoyed.

As I was to learn, avoiding conflict causes conflict to seek you out.

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like détente when there's a good English phrase for it — cold war.

It has never ceased to astonish me that the Arab states have been so eager to go to war against us. Almost from the very beginning of Zionist settlement until today, they have been consumed by hatred for us.

Sinead broke in. "The cops need to know what to do with Evan, Amy. What should I tell them?" "Shoot to kill?" Ian suggested.

the trick with modern warfare was not to outgun the enemy, but carry weapons he could not gimmick.

Frustration is anger caged in impatience.

What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out.

She waited, she knew not for what, panting, with dry, burning lips, a leaping pulse, and a fever of expectancy in all her blood.

He was beginning to see, though vaguely, the sharp conflict between woman and career, between a man's work in the world and woman's need of the man.  But he was not capable of generalization.  He saw only the antagonism between the concrete, flesh-and-blood Genevieve and the great, abstract, living Game.  Each resented the other, each claimed him; he was torn with the strife, and yet drifted helpless on the currents of their contention.

An awkward silence descended between us. Where did that phrase come from? I wonder. Silence descended . Descended from where exactly? Was it hovering over us like the alien spaceship in Independence Day ? Maybe it wasn't really silence so much as it was the smothering weight of something unsaid, words we'd kept at bay, kept in the air, by talking about other things.

The edge between love and hate is honed finer than the keenest fletchett. She told me something like that, once, but I dared not think on such things, with her name so close to my tongue. She told me too that it was not my acquiescence that interested her, but my rebellion. That was the thing that set her apart from the others, who failed to see where it lay. That was the thing that terrified me. -Chapter 67

Hard, his hands on my shoulders; my head rocked with the force of his fury as he shook me. Ah, Elua, it was sweet! The violence of it was spark to tinder for me.

Another silence fell between us, a silence stretching toward awkwardness.

He closed his eyes and clenched his jaw until she thought he would break a tooth. No doubt he was giving himself a very intense lecture on inappropriate thoughts during lifesaving moments.

Los colombianos constantemente buscaban excusas para verter más sangre. De

especially the Japanese and Russian

It really set my nerves jangling," Jenny Larsen confessed. "Wasn't it strange, the way it kept up, day after day?" Alice Grebe, to whom this question was directed, said nothing, for

With everything in me screaming No! yet the sum of me sighed Yes.