Quotes About Tension

Obsessed with the desire to be happy I lost my life. I moved with the tension of a bow and arrow in an unreality of desires.

É QUE um mundo todo vivo tem a força de um Inferno.

Why do you feel comfortable saying this to me? You wish the light would turn red or a police siren would go off so you could slam on the brakes, slam into the car ahead of you, fly forward so quickly both your faces would suddenly be exposed to the wind.

and there I was, caught in the crossfire, aware of how loud a house could be in the absence of sound.

Anxiety has forged another weather.

The heat compounded, and ugliness settled its cloud over us, profound as human speech, although by then we were not speaking.

Sixty seconds is a long time on the battlefield.

That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells.

Aron's conclusion was an epigram: "Peace impossible, war unlikely.

It was now or never. When he was sure that she was engrossed in her work, he quickly took the small bottle of poison from his pocket and poured it into his water flask, making sure that his back was to Morgana. He had to concentrate to stop his hands from shaking; the enormity of what he was doing made him tremble.

Siri let out a silent puff of air. If he'd had a wife like this he would certainly have shot her long ago.

quarrel with Yeremi at the time, still Chigirin

I feel restless, and something seems to weigh me down.

Expectancy of anything is always oppressive. When

All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.

What opposes unites, and the finest attunement stems from things bearing in opposite directions, and all things come about by strife.

All is war.

From the strain of binding opposites comes harmony.

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

I think it's a bit like coming to the end of a book. The plot's in its thickest, all the characters are in a mess, but you can see that there aren't fifty pages left, and you know that the finish can't be far off.

When somebody's too smooth like he is, then somebody else is going to get the rough of it I always say.

They all fired into the air, no doubt about it, said the old man with the fur cap, but it was the air that happened to be in people's lung.

But just as everything was going along politely, quietly and wonderfully — in poured Citizen Danton and his crew.