Quotes About Tension

If your teeth are clenched and your fists are clenched, your lifespan is probably clenched.

The cameras rolled. Charlie lunged. I cowered.

Mr. Christian gave his exasperation-sigh and went on with his peach salad, unable to keep his fork from shaking a little, but managing, with certain effort, not to drive it suddenly into his chest.

But before either of us can speak again, I feel crackle-crackle-crackle. I can't tell what's going to happen next. My seizure begins to spin slowly through me. What will my dad do? Whatever it is, in another moment I'll be flying free. Either way, whatever he does, I'll be soaring.

I had mixed feelings, like watching your Mother in Law drive over a cliff in your car.

This tension of thwarted longing -- even when they were on their own and could do whatever they liked -- was somehow the whole character of their relationship. Sheila was always frantic for the next thing she didn't have from Neil; the sensation was as painful as wire spooled taut in her chest. She wondered sometimes what would become of them if the spool gave way and the tension slackened.

Shakespeare knows that the tension between men as they are and men as they ought to be will forever remain unresolved. Man's imperfectability is no more an excuse for total permissiveness, however, than are man's imperfections a reason for inflexible intolerance.

Where two pieties—feminism and multiculturalism—come into conflict, the only way of preserving both is an indecent silence.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

The past and the present kept smashing into each other in completely untenable ways.

There was silence deep as death,And the boldest held his breath,For a time.

The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.

The war begins to make itself felt very near to us.

The most enduring battle is between head and heart; what would be efficient and logical is nearly always trumped by what is messy and illogical.

I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case of an emergency.

To the great majority of white Americans, the Negro problem has distinctly negative connotations. It suggests something difficult to settle and equally difficult to leave alone. It is embarrassing. It makes for moral uneasiness.

Negative energy? Sure, there are awkward moments, but you're in 'Big Brother.' Everybody is trying to win, everybody is trying to form alliances, everybody is trying to kick everybody out of the house. If there wasn't negative energy, then we weren't playing the game.

One cannot negotiate under fire.

Neighbors are frightening enough when they're alive.

The neighbors hate me.

The longer the game went on, you got the feeling that neither side really wanted to lose.

All these guys that want to act tough and act like they're hard in the street, that's cool, man. I'm glad you want to act hard, and your emotions are driving crazy, but you need to get out of your feelings, nerds.

In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.

I always played on my nerves - on the edge.