Quotes About Tension

When she started to fill the entire glass, he jerked the bottle out of her hand. She swirled on him, staring at him hatefully. "How dare you! You're not my brother, my father, my husband—" "That's right, Christa, I'm no one but a filthy Yank. And you're going to turn into a southern lush if you're not careful!

There's always a calm before the storm...

Yet this chirpy insistence on positivity has a strange way of enhancing the dread and anxiety and melancholy that lie just beneath the surface of things.

hope you understand, I'm too tense to pretend I like you. —Marge Simpson

Like a Chinese finger puzzle made of woven straw, finding relief requires us to relax rather than pull in order to gain release.

This is the starting point of dance: something -- the music, the steps, your partner -- holds you but you also have to hold it and, to achieve the necessary tension, hold yourself against it.

Will fired the shoes like two orange grenades into the alley, pushed her outside and offered in parting, "If you're in heat, Lula, go yowl beneath somebody else's window!

She wouldn't look at him. He couldn't help himself from looking at her.

Anxiety is an extension of the dynamics of fear. It's the feeling of fear without an awareness of the object of your fear. All you know is that you're fearful, but you can't specify exactly what you are afraid of. You just worry about everything.

Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary even of resentment and conceit, just weary to death, and still not sufficiently Americanized or Londonized to hide the weariness under a mechanical jig-jig-jig!

Con el habitual destrozo cataclísmico con que se derrumba el pasado, se abrió paso la idea de que las nuevas guerras iban a encontrarse siempre en países pobres y sus alrededores. Cada vez más temas internacionales tenían como protagonistas a estos países con guerras internas.

We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life. —J. Robert Oppenheimer

Breathless the earth seems waiting some wild blow, Dreaded, but far too close to ward or shun.

It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can.

You should have died when I killed you.

There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.

Reacher said, "So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist.

Get the United States to start a war so they won't intrude in yours.

He let go of the poker and scrambled away.

if you so much as move a eyelash, Barkley, I'm going to blow your guts all over this country-side!

Panic, as I said before, is the most contagious of all sicknesses.

The first principle concerns the power and subtlety of situational influences. The second involves the importance of people's subjective interpretations of the situation. The third speaks to the necessity of understanding both individual psyches and social groups as tension systems or energy "fields" characterized by an equilibrium between impelling and restraining forces.

You don't know what pressure is until you've played for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket

Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.