Quotes About Tension

All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.

The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear.

Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.

There's more than one way to sense violence.

Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable.

This is an era of violent peace.

If you are writing a thriller with violence in it, the ending must be violent. You are delivering a promise to your reader.

The world is too violent right now.

At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent.

We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.

Anyone who follows the Middle East and Islamic world in general can't deny it is often a very violent place, that a band of instability now stretches from Algeria to Pakistan.

Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.

My mom's whole side of the family, they're all Packers fans. My mom's a Bears fan. My stepdad is a Vikings guy. So that gets ugly. My mom sits upstairs watching the Bears game; he sits in the basement. They can't watch it together. Football's a violent anger in our family dynamic.

My problem is I can't show any of my movies to my daughters. It's tough. 'Beauty and the Beast'... they liked it. But that's the only one, really. Otherwise, they've always been dark or violent.

Our country is pathologically violent.

After I did 'Brooklyn,' I did about five or six violent films in one way or another, and not always with me being the bad guy, but something violent about it to keep the street cred up, really.

Cities are drivers of growth and wealth, and at the same time, cities are becoming increasingly violent.

'Drohi' is a thriller, quite action-oriented, at times, even violent, but blood will not be spilt at the drop of a hat.

The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky.

A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.

I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened.

I was never attracted to being a very proficient singer or player. I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way I was very drawn to tension within cinema.

Ooh conflict, the heart of any juicy story.

He took hold of her chin with a thumb and forefinger. "Hold still. It will be over in a sec." "That's what she said," Kasha deadpanned. Chuckling, Axel shook his head. "You look all serious and quiet and then you drop these little humor bombs so unexpected that they sail over most people's heads.