Quotes About Tension

Tobias wasn't entirely sure what happened next. All of a sudden everyone was in motion, and Tobias hit the carpet behind the couch face down with one arm wrenched behind his back. "Get the light, Phan! Light!" Noah barked, planting a knee in Tobias' back to keep him down. Tobias sighed, fighting the instinct to move; Noah would break his arm. "This really isn't my night," he said. ~ after Tobias sneaks up on Noah & Phan in the dark while they're watching a horror flick

I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.

What..." Bell whispered. "What happened?" Walter came forward and peered around them. "My God." He winced and turned his head.

Whoever did this may still be here.

And in the midst of it all stood a middle-aged man and woman in their bedclothes, arguing violently.

Hey," he replied. "Got a light?" she asked, raising an unlit cigarette to her chapped lips.

Four minutes," Walter said, "seems like four hours.

He took a sloshing step closer, fingers less than in inch from the undulating opening. That's when he heard a terrified scream.

We sit in silence, the air between bristling with words unsaid.

It was like living with a bad action movie, all excitement and motion, and no character development.

She soon reached a point when she could not sit at the table with him and listen to his misbegotten notions and morality with its mistaken examples.

Hanna stood looking at him, lips tightly pressed together. Then she turned on her heel and strode out of the conference room. She had to get out of that room. Only bad things happened there. Jack

Ça m'a fait un peu mal, cette voix sans visage, toute grave, tendue et ces cinq petits mots : Mais enfin je suis là.

Jackendoff and Lerdahl point out that large structures in music can be like dramatic arcs in narratives. The slow buildup of tension, a climax, and then denouement can be found in both musical pieces and stories. It may be that both music and language exploit a human predisposition to understand events in terms of tension and resolution.

Only so much truth can exist between two people until it becomes too much, and then they can't bear to be around each other.

Mddle Eastern history is filled with minefields, not because of what actually happened in the past, but because of how people read back the present into the past.

We're all leaving now", Blue Eyes whispered to her. "Together. Out the front door. Scream, and we'll kill you here and now. "Or later", Willow suggested nervously. "Later would be a big improvement on that idea. We could meet back here in, say, an hour, and you can exhibit your homicidal tendencies then, okay? That would be way better for us.

Feelings can even kill such good hard things as love and hate.

Feelings can kill such good hard things as love and hate.

We live in a world that is ringing with the clangour of weapons. Mankind is arming on all sides, and it will go ill with a state that is unable or unwilling to rely on its own strength.

not answering. His eyes darkened. "I don't

The knife in his boot and the Smith & Wesson strapped to his ribs had been enough to get him through the past ten years flying intercept missions with the DEA into South America, breaking up the drug trade. Surely they would be enough to see him through this little exercise in neighborhood push and shove. But just as surely, he didn't want to talk about them.

These two would never understand each other. I was the only link between them and each of them tugged on it hard in the hope that the other would let go.

We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together.... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.