Quotes About Tension

It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.

was Hale. He glanced toward Node 3, wondering if the cryptographer were watching. "Fuck it," he grumbled. Below his feet the outline of a recessed trapdoor

EVEN TENSION! DAMN IT!" a woman's voice screamed nearby, with all the grace of a chain saw. Rachel looked over to see a small woman

La negación es parte fundamental del mecanismo de supervivencia humana. Sin ella, despertaríamos cada mañana aterrorizados, pensando en las innumerables formas en que podríamos morir. En cambio, nuestra mente bloquea esos miedos existenciales centrándose solo en las tensiones que puede afrontar, como llegar al trabajo a tiempo o pagar los impuestos.

Stress happens when the mind resists what is. Most of us tend to either push or resist the river of our lives, to fight circumstance rather than make use of things as they are. Resistance creates turbulence, which you feel as physical, mental, and emotional tension. Tension is a subtle pain, which — like any pain — signals that something is amiss. When we are out of natural balance, we create tension; by listening to our body, we can take responsibility for releasing it.

The silence stretched. Finally Al added one more sentence that I have been thinking about ever since. 'And if you did it again,' he said, 'we would have to kill you again.' We stared at each other for some time after that; each convinced, I am sure, that the other was a total idiot.

Martin Silenus strides back to the dying fire. "Worse," he says. "He could be twisting on the Shrike's steel tree. Where we'll be in a few—" Brawne Lamia rises suddenly and grasps the poet by his shirtfront. She lifts him off the ground, shakes him

He felt the scrotum-lifting tension he always experienced when he was an obvious target.

Can we stop them? Kassad was panting, pouring sweat, and literally quivering from excitement. —

What in fuck do you fucking well think you're fucking doing?' The officer's broad helmet bobbed as he shouted. I thanked all of the gods that he was not a Sikh.

Sato said softly, "Bottom-san, please to understand, if you call me 'motherfucker' again, I shall be forced to kill you.

Scrotum lifting tension

The constitutional disease from which I suffer," wrote the philosopher and psychologist William James, "is what the Germans call Zerrissenheit, or torn-to-pieces-hood. The days are broken in pure zig-zag and interruption.

Sobrecarregar a atenção diminui o domínio mental. É no momento em que estamos mais tensos que esquecemos os nomes das pessoas que conhecemos bem, já para não falar nas datas dos seus aniversários, dos nossos aniversários de casamento e de outros dados socialmente cruciais.

lately it has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca...

You think everything's sexual tension, I said to Lauren, just because you were raised my Mr. & Mrs. Super-Christian. We Jews know that underlying tensions are always due to low blood sugar. Yeah, well, you killed my Savior, Lauren said, and Jorda saluted good-bye. Don't let it happen again.

You fat bitch ! he said, and the party gasped like a Greek chorus.

I remember that she was always fluttering like a big, white bird—around my father, and he too heavy and tired to escape her pecking.

he kept telling me to rilax and that gets me skared because it always means its gonna hert.

You will discover that if you can find such pleasure in presence, then your joy no longer depends on exceptional circumstances waited for in a state of neurotic tension but on simple reality, as it presents itself to you from moment to moment.

Consciousness, says Asanga, is "hindered by the view of the 'I': from there comes its agitated and powerless tension. This can be remedied by stabilizing consciousness in the inner world, which amounts to re-establishing consciousness in consciousness

"A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats."

Now she has, although it's a difficult relationship.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.