Quotes About Tension

I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.

I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.

I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.

I'm one of those guys who always has that kind of underlying anxiety kind of always creeping around in the background.

President Trump is trying to avoid war through economic pressure. Our so-called allies are undermining that pressure and in the process making war more likely.

People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on.

Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath.

The first time I fought Undertaker. I remember watching him walk down and having this chill. You know that feeling when you're almost getting into a car accident? It felt like that continuously for 10 minutes. That was a moment.

The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.

People are intrigued but also scared about things that are uneasy.

For something like 'Line of Duty' to work, it has to be both plausible and unexpected.

In Britten or Berg, there's a tension between the sweet and the sour, between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the tonal and the atonal, the happy and the sad. That, to me, is what all western art is about - that tension. It's why we want to say anything at all.

Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree.

I'm a pretty chaotic person, but I'm also a perfectionist. It's a very unfortunate mix.

Even in peace there is war.

An extreme fearfulness moves through all your body, and your mind is troubled more.

A peculiar sort of chaos looms beneath the pretense of peace.

There is no love in war but there is a lot of war in love.

Folks in Irihs might not be as welcoming as they were here. Resentment lingers.''So we're going to be in danger.''No more than any other day of your life.

I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.

Having women work with men is like having a grizzly bear work with salmon . . . dipped in honey.

I'm sick of carrying guns and beating up women.

I feel like a mosquito being squeezed.