Quotes About Tension

Father turned on me as if blackbirds had flown out of my mouth.

When anybody could tell, nobody was ever going to give fucking peace a chance.

The subject of a piece of writing has not suffered the tension and anxiety endured by the subject of the Eichmann experiment (as it has been called) - on the contrary, he has been on a sort of narcissist's holiday during the period of interviews - but when the moment of peripeteia comes, he is confronted with the same mortifying spectacle of himself flunking a test of character he did not know he was taking.

Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.

The conflict in the Middle East is complex, multi-faceted, and unlikely to be resolved anytime soon.

In France, the matches are sometimes very tight, and so it is difficult to score. A free kick can unlock a game.

I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I'm in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It's so unnatural and uncomfortable.

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

Stress happens. In different ways, we all hold unnecessary tension in our bodies all day long. Shoulders, neck, wrists, hips, hamstrings, back, oh my!

I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.

Humor can prove to be the conversational lubricant you need to remove the tension from the most unpleasant management- and accountability-related conversations.

What resonates with me whenever I watch a great movie or TV show is the balance of inevitability and unpredictability. And it's a very delicate balance.

As I think back years later as to what a Game 7 is, what stands out most is how unpredictable it is, even for the athletes closest to the environment.

I think pressure is that uneasy feeling that you feel when you're unprepared.

I associate the metaphor of sport with war. The unrest in the former Yugoslavia, after all, started with a football match that then became charged in nationalist ways and ended in violence.

When suspicion and hostility is allowed to fester, it can erupt into unrest.

The nice thing about a horror movie is that people go in looking to be unsettled.

Louise Bonnet is a Los Angeles-based painter of round, fleshy, almost obscene shapes and people. But hers is a very clean, friendly cartoon world, so there's this tension between harmlessness and perversion that is totally unsettling.

Families always have these unspoken dramas, and at holidays, everyone is supposed to sit down and pretend that none of that is going on.

There is little doubt that an unstable Syria will destabilize the whole Middle East.

They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called 'war' too. And there will still be no conventional war.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

At times of economic upheaval and hardship, history tells us that people can become fearful and resentful.

Taking mass transit is an uphill battle and one wrong move can put you on the latest Worldstarhiphop fight compilation.