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Quotes About Tension

I would think that counted as offering resistance," Will said. "Eating one's son-in-law, that is. Though I suppose everyone has their family altercations.
~ Cassandra Clare
Sibling relationships are complicated. All family relationships are. Look at Hamlet.
~ Maurice Saatchi
If Grandma Goldman ever smiled, she must have done it in the bathroom with the door locked. She had been the undisputed head of her own family, ruling with an iron hand and a mouth full of rocks.
~ Edith Konecky
That's family for you. Can't live with them, can't murder them.
~ Holly Black
My family gets incredibly tense and stressed out around traveling. There's something really beautiful in that vulnerability.
~ Jill Soloway
Whenever I'm with my [teenager] I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
~ Amy Tan
The great thing about baseball is that there's a crisis every day.
~ Gabe Paul
I get excited when fantasy football season's coming. This guy gets excited when war season's coming.
~ Unknown
What has you roaring like a bull with his prick hung in a fence?
~ Susan Scott, Dragons Will Fall
I've hated you for the longest time, but I've loved you for longer." ~ Stefan #5 The Veil Series, Ties That Bind,
~ Unknown
Yes, " he replied. "We are --- how do you say on Midgard -- between a hard place and tree.
~ Amanda Carlson, Struck
Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child.
~ Helen Mirren
My father never ran for office or supported anybody for office, and was not engaged in that at all. But I think people throughout the area were just in a constant state of tension - I mean, adults.
~ Jeff Sessions
Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.
~ Kim Edwards
Sometimes it's just silent...No sound at all. 'Does that scare you?' Chad nods. 'Why?' asks his father. 'It's like something's waiting.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He liked classical music and Duke Ellington.
~ Patti Smith
All forms of fear produce fatigue.
~ Bertrand Russell
Bosnia is a country of hatred and fear.
~ Ivo Andric
I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
~ Jack Scalia
Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.
~ Bill Bruford
When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
So when things start going badly, you're invested in the characters in a way I think amplifies the horror and the fear because you're invested.
~ Katherine Waterston
Beauty and fear make uneasy companions
~ Cornelia Funke
Every single night I'm nervous.
~ Vivien Leigh