Quotes About Tension

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That's marijuana." It was one of the few times in his life that he faced his father's anger. "That was the only real fight I ever got in with my dad," he

In his competition with Bradford, Franklin had one big disadvantage. Bradford was the postmaster of Philadelphia, and he used that position to deny Franklin the right, at least officially, to send his Gazette through the mail. Their ensuing struggle over the issue of open carriage was an early example of the tension that often still exists between those who create content and those who control distribution systems.

My heart says yes, but my reason says no.

Violence breeds violence

T]he anti-vitriol vitriol is getting ugly.

Purple Noon.

It's a disheartening feeling when you can't stand the touch of someone but neither can you push them away.

Every time he slammed his body against the wire fence the jay started as if he were about to fly off, but he didn't. He just kept staring down into those deadly jaws, mesmerized by the spectacle there.

The volcano has not yet gone dormant; the wars of ethnic survival continue to break out. The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, and the Syrian, Kurdish, and Ukrainian conflicts of the following decades demonstrate that the old dynamics are still there.

It's been so long, i'm afraid to get laid now! I got so much internal pressure built up that i'd probably blow a hole in a woman the size of my fist!

Se mi amaste, oggi vi ammazzereste tutti.

IT TOOK a conscious effort for Tallow to keep his hand off his gun as he walked up the apartment building's stairs. There was no threat here. He told himself that with every step. But every step held memory.

Carnstein, with a soft smile and a grace and attention that bordered on the tender, very precisely beat Isaac Goldmark to death.

Remember that every use of force, even the smallest, creates a counterforce.

Bryce, she whispers. What's wrong. I can barely breathe as I ask her, Do you like him? Do I... you mean Jon? Yes! Well, sure. He's nice and - No, do you like him? My heart was pounding through my chest as I took her other hand and waited. Well, no. I mean, not like that.... No! She said no! I didn't care where I was, I didn't care who saw. I wanted, just had to kiss her. I leaned in, closed my eyes, and then...

It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal of good material if life hasn't been peachy (and not a whole lot if it has).

She's got ANTAGONIZE written all over her.

Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call the economy or the free market is less and less distinguishable from warfare.

I'm torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy.

These rocks are a release for my pent-up emotions. When I feel all tied up inside, I just stand here and throw rocks into that vacant lot!" "Hello, Charlie Brown, you blockhead!" "Sometimes I think I'm kind of a vacant lot myself...

expression is always concentrated in the dissonance.

There's a narrow line between love and hate sometimes, you know. And it can be crossed unwittingly.

They're going to shoot him. You have to say something. But how can you? You don't have any lines.