Quotes About Tension

Crystal didn't like delays. She was a fast-moving, efficient person, and when her way was blocked, she became very tense and spoke with her lips in two hard lines.

The thought made him suddenly furious. He sat up, grabbed a shoe heel out of the bucket at his feet, and hurled it with all his might. It arrived at the front door just as the door opened. Doon heard a hard thwack and a loud "Ouch!" at the same moment. Then he saw the long, lean, tired-looking face of his father in the doorway.

we fought a lot in welch. Not just to fend off our enemies but to fit in. Maybe it was because there was so little to do in Welch; Maybe it was because life there was hard and it made the people hard...maybe it was because mining was dangerous and cramped and dirty work and it put all the miners in bad moods and they came home and took it out on their wives, who took it out on their kids, who took it out on other kids.

To me, horror and comedy never work. Never worked for me, anyway.

We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.

Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk

Every day when I get home from work, I feel so frustrated, my boss is a jerk.

People who work on soaps all the time understand the formula of how to do it.

We can rattle our sabers all we want but, realistically, we don't have troops for an invasion [Iran] and surgical strikes aren't going to work.

I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can't stop it.

I think my work is influenced by the fact that we're living in dangerous times. If I could put it in a sentence, in fact, my work is about just that: living in dangerous times.

I'm praying we don't go to war with Iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier.

No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days.

Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn't work.

Asking Saudi Arabia and Iran to work together, when they can't stand each other and are engaged in a proxy battle right at this moment.

On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square.

Most people give Kennedy a passing grade, a good grade on the Cuban Missile Crisis handling, but what they don't realize, if he had had strength, if he had showed strength before, there would never have been a Cuban Missile Crisis.

I always have stress.

I am an over-thinker and tend to stress a lot.

I think the stress will kill me. I think it will be the stress.

When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.

I'm someone who's quite anxious and stresses out a lot and gives the impression that I'm laid back.

There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting.

Relationships and the stress of the world going down, it puts a lot of stress on people, you know financially.