Quotes About Tension

Lui fece girare il frustino ancora e ancora tra le dita. «Sai che non ti odio. Buon Dio, dovresti sapere che...»

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Very soon they will have to choose on the one hand between economic and financial collapse or internal upheaval, and on the other a war which could have no other object

In total war it is quite impossible to draw any precise line between military and non-military problems.

Battles are won by slaughter and manœuvre. The greater the general, the more he contributes in manœuvre, the less he demands in slaughter.

Madness is however an affliction which in war carries with it the advantage of SURPRISE.

at a touch of external difficulties or menace all these fierce internal controversies would disappear for the time being, and we should be brought into line and into tune. But why is it that men are so constituted that they can only lay aside their own domestic quarrels under the impulse of what I will call a higher principle of hatred?…

The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet.

The story of the human race is War.

this furtive childhood, this concealed degradation is ready to explode your systems sooner or later.

Normalno?? jest linoskoczkiem nad otch?ani? nienormalno?ci.

His face was knotted with rage. He felt like fainting but couldn't remember the proper way to fall.

Lawrence pulled his gun from its holster. "I've got fifteen rounds to help you live out this fantasy, Becker. Then you're on your own.

Apart from trade, the main form of interaction between nations is war.

Eric creía que lo peor que uno podía hacer con un corredor a media carrera era darle falsas esperanzas. Lo que te hace tensar los músculos es aquello que no esperas; pero mientras sepas a qué atenerte, puedes relajarte y reducir o aumentar la intensidad según lo requiera el esfuerzo.

There are two Mississippi Valleys. One is wet, the other dry. The river made the wet valley by flooding it with dirty water and filling it with mud. People made the dry valley by draining it of water and hardening mud into dirt. The two valleys exist in uneasy tension, the wet valley always ready to burst into the dry valley that holds it down.

If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them, they're not going to like you, they're not going to be your friend.

I could barely conjure up comfortable, pleasant, free and easy feeling associated with a normal relationship.

A moment later, Cat hurtled back into the room as if chased by demons. She stationed herself in front of Raisa, a knife in either hand, all of her genteel patina swept away. "Cuffs! Look sharp! It's him, the whey-faced, gutter-swiving, prig-napping bastard! He's here!" Han looked as mystified as Raisa. " Who 's here?

Okay," he said, his breath hitching, his hands shaking like hell as he pried her arms from around his neck and set her away. Deep breath. Another. "Okay. Just...um. Okay. Christ. Christ , Darcy, I want you so bad I'm afraid I'm going to hurt you.

show up here." "Let's go then," she said on a breathy sigh. "Not yet." The music thrummed, rising to a loud crescendo, and so did Fiona's pulse, pounding in her ears while Scorpio's fingertip grazed the lace edging of her panties.

Scarface, Boxer, and Rambo. She couldn't have gotten Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod? she wondered with a desperate kind of hysteria. Moe, Larry, and Curly? The Three Amigos? Rambo tugged a length of rope out of his hip pocket, handed his rifle to Boxer and grabbed her wrist.

Fear pierces her heart. She hates it when Wesley gets mad. Not that he's ever hurt her. He'd never do that. He doesn't even shout at her, not really. It's more the resigned disappointment followed by the silent treatment that he stretches out like an elastic band, getting tauter and tauter until she can bear it no more