Quotes About Tension

The Middle East is a very difficult stage to play upon. Without doubt, it is a good drama. And on occasion, there are situations so unimaginable, if not ludicrous, as to make them almost comic. But the cast is constantly changing, the audience is often disengaged, and it seems at times that no one is actually running the show.

The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war.

It's humiliating for Barack Obama and, therefore, the United States to have American sailors held hostage during his final State of the Union.

Some people called me a fascist. That's mostly over, but there will be more attacks from the unions.

Conflict is always more interesting to play. Not everyone gets along in the trauma unit. In a hard-pressed job like this, there will always be friction.

It's a shame the Manchester United situation turned sour.

At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.

The Russians didn't invent partisan divides. The Russians haven't invented racism in the United States. But the Russians understand a lot of those divisions and they understand how to exploit them.

From the beginning, Christianity has struggled to sustain the creative tension between the personal appropriation of the gospel and the gospel's universal reach.

There's something about a supernatural universe that you would think would actually make it easier to create tension and build conflict and have big scares and big ideas and big sequences. And that's true in a lot of ways. You can pick the best idea out of a hat.

We human beings get nervous if we don't know what's going on. It's the rule for creating scary stories: the unknown is always more frightening than the known.

Most times, at the movies, my stress levels are ratcheted up so high that I can barely sit through the full production without excusing myself, clutching people next to me or crawling out of my seat, incapacitated by the unknown.

Citizens of Ukraine will never enjoy the beauty of peace unless we settle down our relations with Russia.

The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.

Love between a man and woman is war.

There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

Opposites attract - and then aggravate.

Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.

I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.

Sometimes funerals and weddings bring out the worst rather than the best in people.

He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the wrong verbal move and find her ignorance exploding in her face.

It's the little questions from women about tappets that finally push men over the edge.

He needed a stiff drink. With a side of straightjacket.