Quotes About Tension

There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing upon their respective soothing versions of unreality

The only way to Cuba is with the CIA.

She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse.

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there are usually nice hors d'oeuvres.

When you're in politics sometimes you step on toes and they come back and kick you in the backside.

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Politics is but the common pulsebeat of which revolution is the feverspasm.

My inner world seems largely to consist of three rotating emotions: embarrassment, rage, and tension. Sometimes I feel excited, but I think that's just positive tension.

I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contemporary man.

To worry is to wear yourself out.

True baseball fans do not cheer for their teams to win; they cheer for them not to lose. Victory does not come with joy, it comes with relief. Losing causes only pain.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

One thing we got to be thankful for our Soldiers can win wars faster than our Diplomats can talk us into them,

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

and find apartment 627. I swallow hard and knock. The

Competing egos, status struggles, clashes of styles and personalities—this is the stuff conflict thrives upon.

For two thousand years Jerusalem has brought out the least attractive qualities in every race that has lived there. The Holy City has had more atrocities committed in it, more consistently, than any other town in the world.

For the mind of every man is balanced upon the creative tension within him of conceptual mediation between the opposed polarities of the finite and the infinite, the essential and the existential. the exact equation between them is responsible for the basic human types, which, in aesthetics, constitute the classical and the romantic temperaments.

They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.