Quotes About Tension

Men do become very emotional when they have a big upset.

In the struggle for life, a taste for truth is a luxury – or else a disability: only tormented persons want truth. Man is like other animals, wants food and success and women, not truth. Only if the mind Tortured by some interior tension has despaired of happiness: then it hates its life-cage and seeks further.

Relationships do not have to be such a struggle. Only when we do not understand one another is there tension, resentment, or conflict.

If you're not nervous, son, then something is wrong.

Mrs. Vanlandingham from across the street heard the commotion and came running, still holding a dish towel. She arrived just as the sheriff, Nix Gridley, wheeled into the parking lot and slid in the gravel.

of the top lid opens slowly. Mercifully, there is no dead baby inside. Far from it. Vanessa pauses to study the collection of small wooden cigar boxes all sealed with a band of silver duct tape and for the most part stacked in rows. Sweat is dripping from her eyebrows and she tries to swipe at it with a forearm. Carefully

is this?" Wally growled angrily. "Why is everybody

and exactly twenty-one feet from the ground. From there it fell about nine feet, culminating in a perfect hangman's knot, one that Seth had undoubtedly worked on for some time.

without getting near bluegrass, CNN, opera, or a hundred other stations. Out of frustration on her part and fatigue on his, they both threw in the towel early and settled on soft jazz.

If you're not nervous in a courtroom, then you're in the wrong place.

ENGLISH POLICY toward Mary was beginning to fall apart. Elizabeth was losing her nerve.

It was a tense moment for Sir James Balfour's men

Elizabeth and her chief adviser were repeatedly at loggerheads.

the most awkward and least convincing coronation day in French history.

the Earl of Atholl's men and those of the Laird of Tullibardine cried out, "Burn the whore!

As he spoke—the warrant would have taken about ten minutes to read—Mary sat completely still.

Border skirmishes were the norm. Outright war was the exception

than of a border skirmish that went tragically wrong.

Within three months, the first of the Wars of Religion would have begun in France

Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action

The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.

The World According to Bensenhaver," the book jacket flap said, "is about a man who is so fearful of bad things happening to his loved ones that he creates an atmosphere of such tension that bad things are almost certain to occur. And they do.

My brain is sending poison to my heart, he told Homer...

The girl looked too frightened to speak. Then she said: "I know you have to give my mother the flag—at the funeral. I know what my mother's gonna do—when you give her the flag. She said she's gonna spit on you," the pregnant sister told Owen. "And I know her—she will!" the girl said. "She'll spit in your face!" "IT HAPPENS, SOMETIMES," Owen said.