Quotes About Tension

As a Southerner, coming of age for me included a dawning awareness that we were living with a story that was self-deceiving, a lie. The resulting tension planted something deep in my soul, a nagging sense of betrayal.

The queen sees me coming, turns toward us and waits, with a killer's patience, for me to reach the chancel steps.

There is nothing that sickens a country more than its own people fighting against one another. It destroys families; it is killing us daily.

it is easier to take a country into war than to bring it to live at peace

Caroline Malloy, the Crazie, went after her sister with a hammer. Missed, but I can imagine what the hammer did to the floor.

Was Agent XOX to die a drowning death? You let go of her! came Eddie's voice, and suddenly Eddie had one arm, Beth the other, and they were pulling her the other way. Back and forth, back and forth. Secret Agent XOX was going to die a stretching death instead. Torn limb from limb.

one is reminded, at a level deeper than all words, how making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

Or isn't virtue in tension with wealth, as though each were lying in the scale of a balance, always inclining in opposite directions?

Son, pues, estos dos principios los que, en mi opi­nión, podríamos considerar como causas de que la divi­nidad haya otorgado a los hombres otras dos artes, la música y la gimnástica, no para el alma y el cuerpo, ex­cepto de una manera secundaria, sino para la fogosidad y filosofía respectivamente, con el fin de que estos princi­pios lleguen, mediante tensiones o relajaciones, al punto necesario de mutua armonía.

You don't make peace with your friends.

il più intenso e semplice dei piaceri concessi ai viventi, quello di restaurare la propria tensione osmotica.

I talk to myself a lot, but it seldom does any good. I'm a tense kid. I know it. But I have good reason to be tense.

Dad drove Heather home. He didn't talk much in the car. He just kept shaking his head and muttering under his breath.

him!" I cried. "Somebody

atmosphere.

Shane looked…pale. Pale and shaken and—how predictable was this?—pissed.

Shane dragged Eve's suitcase into the room and dumped it on the floor beside her bed. "Hey, Dark Princess? Here's your crap. Also, bite me.

I lifted one foot from the brackish water, and the bunny slippers were soaked and drooped pathetically. Even the fangs seemed robbed of any charm. Don't worry, I told it. Someone will pay for your suffering. Heavily. With screaming. I felt I should repeat it for the other slipper, in case there should be any bad feelings between the two. One should never create tension between ones's footwear. --POV is Myrnin, page 221

All right, he said. Since you ask so nicely. I wasn't asking. I'm aware of that. The sharp point in my back did make it clear.

Go to hell and take that with you!" She shouted it right in Amelie's face. Eve was an exotic blaze of color against Amelie's white fury. And then she slapped the Founder in the face.

Now, said Brandons low, cold voice. Lets not be rude eve.

I'd say over my dead body, but I think you already made that point," Michael snapped. "Thanks for the visit. Now fuck off, man.

And how are we supposed to do that, exactly? Shane's all grrr now.

Sometime, somewhere, life always comes to a fight, and peace always comes to an end.