Quotes About Tension

The pendulum had swung too far, as always, and now was swinging back, and the horror of intolerance had been loosed upon the land.

FBI SPECIAL AGENT Miguel Gomez leaned

Ah, James, our James, she says, sounding wistful. Can't live with him, can't kill him slowly enough. - Callie (pg. 141)

But it was a shouldn't with a hint of should.

Can you send in guards? asked Prue. To, you know, get things under control? We tried that, said the attaché. Only gets them more riled up. They start getting oppressed when you do that.

Just as the roads at Moscow's heart flow out in concentric ripples from the Kremlin, so this tension too seems to radiate from those secret and formidable walls, lapping outward to the suburbs and to the farthest confines of the Soviet Union itself, in ever-weakening but pervasive rings.

The red tears of tracers shrieked through the thoroughfares and stray bullets cratered the faces of banks, churches, condos, and franchises, every place of worship a city has to offer.

The whites were right to be afraid. One day the system would collapse in blood. An

the immense exertion white people put into grinding them down

racial violence only becomes more vicious in its expression. It will not abate or disappear, not anytime soon

The whites were right to be afraid. One day the system would collapse in blood.

Things are pretty much status quo with the sexual-tension friend.

The atmosphere in Nightbirds was ever five minutes after a big argument and no one telling you what happened. Everyone in their neutral corners replaying KO's and low blows and devising too-late parries. You didn't know what it had been about or who'd won, just that nobody wanted to talk about it, they glance around and knead grudges in their fists.

I thought, This is where the day curdles.

A force from above held him down, and a counterforce from below bore him aloft. He hovered on unexceptionality.

Carney spied a patrolman across the street, drinking a Coca-Cola through a straw with bovine serenity. For a moment, he entertained the ridiculous proposition of a Negro calling a cop to complain he was being threatened by two white men.

Let one colored in and you're integrated. Let two in, you got a race war as they try to kiss up to whitey.

Rather, it was the manshape that held them there, their necks craned, torn between the promise of doom and the disappointment of the ordinary.

It's nonviolence that is hard to deal with, whether coming from Israelis or Palestinians or both. It's confusing to them.

Bombing operations in Gaza and raids into the West Bank are often referred to by Israeli officials as mowing the lawn.

In their familiarity, they had developed a dislike for each other.

I'm going to find you, ya know," Bill said, sounding decidedly unhinged. "Can't leave any witnesses behind." I wanted to remind him that one witness had already escaped, but given the fact that he held a gun and I held nothing, I thought I'd better pick my battles.

Thus it can be seen that mental health is based on a certain degree of tension, the tension between what one has already achieved and what one still ought to accomplish, or the gap between what one is and what one should become.

I consider it a dangerous misconception of mental hygiene to assume that what man needs in the first place is equilibrium or, as it is called in biology, "homeostasis," i.e., a tensionless state. What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.