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Quotes About Tension

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.
~ Allen Klein
I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.
~ Edwidge Danticat
It didn't take long for the anger to put the happiness in a headlock.
~ Jennifer Estep
They have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they've never read, and the tension between the couples was so thick it nearly choked us.
~ Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy
I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I came near!
~ Abigail Williams
They've come to overthrow the court, sir!
~ Samuel Parris
Paige cleared her throat. "Hey, Taylor?" "What?" she snapped. "Um...he...maybe he can help us?" "He doesn't seem very helpful, " Taylor said grumpily.
~ Embee, Tess Embers
Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin.
~ Wilhelm Reich
As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.
~ Alan Moore
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
~ Arthur Koestler
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
~ Robert Staughton Lynd
Don't get small units caught in between the forces of history.
~ John W. Vessey, Jr.
If we're at the lowest point in history, that means we're in a new Cold War.
~ Dmitry Peskov
History has been the history of warfare.
~ Godfrey Reggio
Soap operas got nothing on my family history.
~ Kiersten White
War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.
~ Thomas Hardy
Being assertive in the home does not produce any smiling faces, but it does bring out a few tongues.
~ Wes Fesler
Catholic homes caught fire because they were loaded with petrol bombs.
~ Ian Paisley
If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
We need two homes, a green one and a brown one, a grown one and a built one, two worlds in tension.
~ Robert Harbison
There's times I'd rather kill you than listen to your honesty.
~ Garth Brooks
The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last.
~ Gene Wilder
I still hope to kill Fischer
~ Boris Spassky
Howdy. I'm gonna separate your head from your shoulders. Hope you don't mind none.
~ Bill Paxton