Quotes About Tension

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

You are really starting to annoy me, Stanton." Nick didn't blink. "Good. By the end of the night I hope to finish the job.

Something I keep coming back to in my music is the tension between two extremes: healing and chaos, hope and anxiety - these big themes are inside us, flickering, all day.

Fang looked at me, hope in his eyes, and I smirked at him. I save the huge emotional kissy-face for imminent death scenes. This probably didn't qualify.

If you'd sat there any longer,' Annabeth said, 'you would have spontaneously combusted. I hope the conversation was worth it?

It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy.

We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?

Catholics and Protestants are fighting with one another... while the enemy of Aryan humanity and all Christendom is laughing up his sleeve.

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

Prison is like high school with knives.

I don't know whether to toss you through that window or shake your hand and say 'Well done'" Henry said in a tired voice.

Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.

For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.

I believe humor nullifies violence.

[Harrier] locked eyes with Zanattar. He couldn't remember another time in his life when he'd been this angry and hadn't hit something.

What happens when the hitcher and the driver are equally murderous?

A kiss is like a fight, with mouths.

I don't want to have so much humor [in films] that it undermines the jeopardy, but enough to sometime relieve tension.

But our country's equivalent of gritty reality is more like "Look out Sarge, he's got a shooter!"

The dog growled again, long and ferocious. The hair on my neck tingled.And just when I knew he would attack, a horrible scream split the air, and Darlene passed out and fell over on her side.

I cringed as the band oozed into the next chord. If notes were cars, I think there was a D major under the wreckage.

Family. Couldn't live with them, couldn't run a stake through them.

Wait." Stefan's voice was hard suddenly. Bonnie and Elena turned back and froze, embracing each other, trembling. "What is your—your father—going to do to you when he finds out that you allowed th