Quotes About Tension

He had been there to warn Dutka's wife and boy. It was an idea of his own, but it worked. They got away." "The captain? Thaddeus?" "The Germans were still searching when I left. The searchlights had been brought up." "There's a chance, isn't there, Jan?" "There's always a chance." But his voice was heavy, and his shoulders drooped. Sheila's next question about Korytów

Because he says he can't stand you and you act like you can't stand him, and whenever a man and a woman behave like that toward each other, it usually means something's going on.

yellow made her so nervous that she suspected it was the cause of war.

She smiled with a scary energy, as if she had been told to at gunpoint.

I wanted to ask her if she meant to spend the night here as well, but I didn't want her to say yes. It could be that she was in some kind of mood and just wanted a nap and my question might force her to adopt a stance. She does that, I've noticed; she lashes out when she thinks she's been given a cue.

Olivia made Mrs. Fletcher nervous. That was difficult to process. I'd recently come across a proverb about not speaking unless you'd thought of something better than silence. So I kept typing.

He was good-looking. Enough to make me feel uncomfortable. Tall and dark, etc.

No, this is pretty much the same version I read," I said, because it felt too damn late to back down. I imagine that from time to time some similar situation has led governments to declare war." pg.57

the nice bits of them can never make up for the offensively crappy parts. I

From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double. Winter and summer, town and country, law and liberty, were hostile, and the man who pretended they were not, was in his eyes a schoolmaster -- that is, a man employed to tell lies to little boys.

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

I prefer the troubled ocean of war...to the tranquil, putrescent pool of ignominious peace.

Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.

For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.

For nearly twenty years, Bismarck preserved the peace and eased international tension with his moderation and flexibility. But he paid the price of misunderstood greatness, for his successors and would-be imitators could draw no better lesson from his example than multiplying arms and waging a war which would cause the suicide of European civilization.

Cold War. China, though technically an ally of the Soviet Union, was in quest of maneuvering

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

A rose trapped inside a fist.

I see walking bombs on the street Hearts not beating, but ticking

America is seething at all times. It's like a Gaza Strip that's three thousand miles long.

All bullshit and no death and mutilated assholes makes Jack a dull boy, dull and tense.