Quotes About Tension

Así que estaban los Kerner, llenos de odio, entrelazados en secreto por el espasmo sexual, y estaban mis padres, que se llamaba el uno al otro pero cuyo lecho campaba castamente en campo abierto. Abajo la casa un desastre, el marido estaba exiliado en el salón, a las posar una soñadora medio lunática; arriba todo estaba como una patena el marido en el centro de todo y la esposa, vehemente y obstinada.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Si veíamos a una persona, Madre se quedaba inmóvil, con los hombros en tensión, lista para salir corriendo.

The cause of war is preparation for war.

Now is the age of anxiety.

One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

We have global communication and yet confrontation is more common than dialogue.

Humor and seriousness can be an unstable mix.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

Dad!" he shouted, loud enough to make my ears ring. "Dad! You need to get down here!" (Derek) Chloe held open the door and whispered to me, "I could say he's not always like this, but I'd be lying.

The attraction of dating is that you don't take yes for granted - - you're fully engaged, there's seductiveness, tension.

The U.S. prostitutes are fighting with everybody, shooting at everybody. It's like dating a gangbanger.

Is it a bad sign when you see the person you're dating and get the same feeling as if you just saw police lights in you're rear view mirror?

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.

Everyone is calm and collected but I am telling you something - I am not calm and I am not collected. It's a sick world out there.

Estas siempre enfadada con tu mama?" "La odio." "Por qué, Linda?" "Ella me odia a mí." "Her pressure's 120 over 100," said Sabbath.

Calm." "If Yahweh wanted me to be calm, he would have made me a goy. Four days. No. Now." "We can't," she whispered. "Come Saturday—I'll give you a periodontal probe.

If I know anything about periodontists, she's thought of strangling you more than once. In your sleep.

The law of living: fluctuation. For every thought a counter-thought, for every urge a counterurge. No wonder you either go crazy and die or decide to disappear.

There is only one way for any of us to resolve the tension between the high ideals of the gospel and the grim reality of ourselves: to accept that we will never measure up, but that we do not have to. We are judged by the righteousness of the Christ who lives within, not our own.

AS ANDREW GREELEY SAID, If one wishes to eliminate uncertainty, tension, confusion and disorder from one's life, there is no point  in getting mixed up either with Yahweh or with Jesus of Nazareth.7-9 I grew up expecting that a relationship with God would bring order, certainty, and a calm rationality to life. Instead, I have discovered that living in faith involves much dynamic tension.