Quotes About Tension

Depressed and slinking though they were, eyes of fire were not wanting among them; nor compressed lips, white with what they suppressed

When this interchange of Christian name was effected, Madame Defarge, picking her teeth with her toothpick, coughed another grain of cough, and raised her eyebrows by the breadth of another line.

Invisible insects of diabolical activity swarm in this place. I am tickled and twitched all over. Mentally, I have now committed a burglary under the meanest circumstances, and the myrmidons of justice are at my heels.

Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat!

When the Attorney-General ceased, a buzz arose in the court as if a cloud of great blue-flies were swarming about the prisoner, in anticipation of what he was soon to become.

She has worn herself away by constant sharpening. She is all edge.

Only one soul was to be seen, and that was Madame Defarge— who leaned against the door-post, knitting, and saw nothing.

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It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five.

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tumbril on his way to the Guillotine.

Todas las fuerzas comprimidas con exceso desgarran y destrozan.

She and his father had been at variance from his earliest remembrance. To sit speechless himself in the midst of rigid silence, glancing in dread from the one averted face to the other, had been the peacefullest occupation of his childhood. She gave him one glassy kiss, and four stiff fingers muffled in worsted.

Martin Scorcese, the film director, was once asked the secret to a good scene. "Put three people in a room," he said.

It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war.

hostile village and they discovered his presence, they would be

I'm retired — goodbye tension, hello pension!

Sometimes I feel like I'm going nowhere, in opposite directions.

Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edgeI'm tryin' not to lose my headIt's like a jungle sometimesIt makes me wonder how I keep from going under.

The clicking of gun hammers greeted Jade as he stumbled off the porch. Still gripping the back of his head, he shouted, "Relax! It's me, Marlow. He's pinned down on the property, so hold your positions." He walked behind the phalanx of cars. "I need to sit down a minute and then I'm going back in.

He noticed Thomas tense up as Allander's name was said aloud. It was as if Jade had released it into the stagnant air of the house for the first time in years. So far, Thomas had used only euphemisms for his son's name.

Dr. Yung cleared his throat and spoke, hiding whatever anger he might feel under the calmness of his voice. "Needless to say, I hope that the matter before us is an important one.

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.