Quotes About Tension

Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again.

This time I felt my own face redden. Talking with this woman was like sitting still for a series of slaps, delivered arhythmically so you couldn't know when the next one was coming.

I don't have beef with nobody... You know when it's beef, because then we just start playing scoreboard, and nobody wants to play scoreboard.

Because of both hipster culture and Facebook culture, the human race is starting to resemble a school of hairy piranhas.

On 'Grey's,' if you have a bad day as a doctor, you lose a patient. But what's crazy about 'Station 19' is if you have a bad day as a firefighter, the patient dies, or you die, or your partner dies. It's a whole other level of stakes.

When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.

Love triangles very rarely stay quiet for very long.

There's nothing so interesting as a steam roller that's about to be derailed.

If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

We're being attacked for what we do in the Islamic world, not for who we are or what we believe in or how we live.

Emma must feel Jake stiffen because she pulls back. He can't see her eyes in the dark and wonders if she is going to say something. Instead she kisses him on the mouth. Then her hand slides slowly down his chest and stomach. She doesn't slip it inside his jeans. She just presses it against his erection. Jake inhales sharply, and he's pretty sure he hears Duncan mutter, "Get a room.

Real stand off," Florence reported over coffee. "Almost had a hockey game on our hands.

Telling people to relax is not as aggressive as shooting them, but it's up there.

He wanted to say, That's my business, and mind yours. He wanted to ask them if they had a beat they should be walking. He sorely wanted to mouth off, and right then he didn't even mind being outnumbered two to one. But they had thousands at their backs. So he tried to look friendly. Even smiled. Hating himself for it.

Furthermore, the managerial ethos of parliamentary reformism is in direct tension with important values associated with the dialogue that attends our system of checks and balances. The term "parliamentary reform" should not be allowed to cloud the fact that the critics advance a highly pro-executive position that would seek a strong government primarily by undercutting the independence of Congress.

The biblical writers do not finally and fully resolve the tension between divine sovereignty and human freedom. They affirm the authenticity of human decisions, and yet they see God's sovereign hand behind all that occurs (Prov. 16:33; 21:1).161

on the brink of war and then tumbling into it. The

This city is like some giant social experiment conducted every single day. This place should be a fucking powder keg—but somehow, it's not.

no, a check, and pushing it at him. He took hold of

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.

Before Jenna could think, Eric flipped her on her back, hooked his arms behind her

I'm your air, Jenna. Me. I know where you live.' He pushed her in the chest with his index finger, hard, just over her heart. She stumbled backward.

This is what it means to be in the middle of love, I thought. Being in the middle of love is like being in the middle of a war zone.