Quotes About Tension

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

I never like to do storytelling where everything is just copacetic right after that episode.

There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated.

They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.

There is only one act of violence in 'The Strangers' and it comes at the very, very end... the movie could have worked just as well if we didn't see it, in my opinion.

We may be a little bit late - we are late - coming to the recognition that we are in a strategic competition with China.

I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.

A whole network of hatred across the web, and I wonder what sits in the middle, sensing the vibrations and waiting to pounce.

Collins would have had to resolve within himself the tensions of his dual role. Head of a democratic Government, head of a secret society which in fact regarded itself as a Government within a Government. Conspirator versus democrat. Destroyer versus builder. He might not have been able to resolve these conflicts and might have disintegrated in drink or disillusionment.

In Desmond Ryan's inspired phrase, there continued the 'long wrestle between ghosts and realities with all the stored-up spleens of five years flaming through the rhetoric'.

In all my life I have never experienced such orgies of murder, arson and looting as I have witnessed during the past 16 days with the RIC Auxiliaries. It baffles description. And we are supposed to be officers and gentlemen.

maybe it explodes. No reason to think it will, except for the way a lifetime of consuming fiction makes me associate countdowns with things exploding.

On July 29, 2008, paramilitary forces in South Ossetia began shelling Georgian villages. On the night of August 7, the government panicked. The Georgian military launched artillery into the enclave's provincial capital. And then the Russians struck after midnight. Putin's tanks and troops rolled south, the first Russian military invasion of a sovereign nation in nearly thirty years,

My definition of 'love' is being willing to die for someone who you yourself want to kill. That, in my experience, is kind of the deal.

método bien conocido. Es una técnica de negociación. Lanzas un ancla, distraes a todo el mundo.

frustrated relationship

We live with this tension between self-protective isolation and the dream for meaningful relationships.

The ashes of Warsaw were still warm when the Cold War began.

Like so much of the trouble in the world it ends simply with exhaustion.

As soon as you remember, the spiritual mind, your Inner Vision, is satisfied and there is no longer tension. When the tension is gone, the answer is yes. When the tension is there, the answer is no.

of how upset, nervous, worried, anxious, or stressed we have a tendency to be.

When I started at Puma, you had a restaurant that was a Puma restaurant, an Adidas restaurant, a bakery. The town was literally divided. If you were working for the wrong company, you wouldn't be served any food; you couldn't buy anything. So it was kind of an odd experience.

Society is at odds with itself.

There definitely were times, and I think Michael would say the same thing, where I hated him. We were at odds at times. Even when I loathed him, there were still times when I was like, 'God, I wish I was with him.'