Quotes About Tension

I think, as a fan, when you are sitting there in the stadium you want to be on the edge of your seat.

When you talk to police communications staff and think about their job from an insider's point of view, you can see they have to inch out along a razor's edge every day. They have a duty to be honest. But there's also a responsibility not to inflame.

Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.

'Black Hawk Down' wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged gunfire, the picture seems to choose futility arbitrarily.

It doesn't matter if these characters are supposed to be together forever: if their chemistry gets stale, you want somebody to die, you want to put somebody in a coma, you want to write them off the show - anything to save you.

If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

When armed people from Hamas and armed people from Fatah are standing opposite each other, there is more likely to be a confrontation amongst them.

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

You can't talk to a man, with a shotgun in his hand.

The life of a Repo Man is always intense.

When a man holds you round the throat, I don't think he has come to apologise.

There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door... Two sentences and an ellipsis of three dots.

The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.

I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.

Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.

I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present state of things.

A fool is he that comes to preach or prate, When men with swords their right and wrong debate. [It., Chi conta i colpi e la dovuta offesa, Mentr' arde la tenzon, misura e pesa?]

It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.

Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.

I will hit a man with glasses.

Stand and yield," she called out, her voice far steadier than her hands. "For I cannot allow you to pass." Bannor's crooked grin was somehow more intimidating than a snarl. 'Twould have been far easier to despise him if he'd been cursed with horns and a tail instead of twinkling blue eyes and a dimple in his jaw. "What would you have me yield, my lady? My sword or my heart?" -willow&bannor-

Does tension exist between our perfect longings and the imperfect world?

We all know what fight looks like. As for flight, just a reminder that someone can sit inches away from another and still flee—they just do so internally. We call that stonewalling. Finally, the knee-jerk response of fixing is not the same as a mature, considered wish to work on the relationship. Adaptive Child fixers are fueled by an anxious, driven need to take anyone's tension away from them as quickly as possible. Their motto is "I'm upset until you're not.