Quotes About Tension

Most bowlers want to control the ball. That effort creates the tension that makes their swings more erratic.

The whole world is three drinks behind. If everyone in the world would take three drinks, we would have no trouble. If Stalin, Truman and everybody else in the world had three drinks right now, we'd all loosen up and we wouldn't need the United Nations.

Difficulty relaxing    Insomnia    Impatience    Taking on too much responsibility      Recent major life change (marriage, divorce, birth of child, death of close relative, purchase of home, new job, loss of job, etc.)    Irritability    Tension headaches    Sense of isolation from others    Difficulty delegating  

I looked back towards them, to see if they were watching me, and saw her pulling her arm from his grip. Her eyes were closed and her hair was all over the places and her face was screwed up.

Governmental disorder and 'cumulative radicalization' were two sides of the same coin.

Gavin recognized the look of his father, a half-empty bottle of resentment in his hand.

Something about him made her watch him, his big hands held out to receive the falling drops, alms of heaven, catching them in his mouth, smiling as they streamed down his face, his chin, his cheeks. Her heart sent her one way. Her feet sent her another

I'm caught, he thought, between a cushion and a soft place

when the shit was heading fanwards.

War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.

Ideologies and religions persist in politics, sometimes in tension with science, sometimes in tandem with it, partly because of the ways in which they facilitate competition for power in democracies. This process is far from well understood, but few social scientists today would bet much on the hope-or fear, depending on one's point of view-that these forces are likely to become obsolete in politics any time soon.

Cop Killer" was a protest song. It reflects how a lot of Black people were feeling in that particular historical moment. Folks in L.A. were at the point of exploding with rage at police brutality.

One afternoon, they called me into the warden's office at Corcoran. The warden wanted to talk to me personally. I was nervous, because

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza. Worry: Something to make you unnecessarily ill.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Preocupación: algo que te enferma innecesariamente.

Prue felt like someone had bored a hole in her stomach the size of a basketball

THE EXERCISES These are quite unlike conventional keep-fit exercises. They are habit breakers. They require mental rather than physical effort. They are designed to examine and remedy the tense and over-effortful way in which you have been making everyday actions, and to encourage your body to revert to its natural, tension-free state.

Lily Donaldson tiptoed to the front door and winced when it opened with a creak.

The love, the hate and that strange spot in-between.

May it please Heaven that the reader, emboldened and become of a sudden momentarily ferocious like what he is reading, may trace in safety his pathway through the desolate morass of these gloomy and poisonous pages. For unless he is able to bring to his reading a rigorous logic and a spiritual tension equal at least to his distrust, the deadly emanations of this book will imbibe his soul as sugar absorbs water.

Sung Win smiled to himself, enjoying the tension across his shoulders and the way his pulse beat in his veins. All life involved risk.

Enjoy the peaceful moments, Zhenjin. When the fighting starts, this will be a pleasant memory.

Although we should hope for peace, we must be prepared for war

I am not going to rape you, Mrs. Blackburn," he said, toweling off his face, as if accusations of rape were a daily and tiresome occurence. (Kit)