Quotes About Tension

The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.

Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.

The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Nerves provide me with energy.... It's when I don't have them when I feel at ease that I get worried.

Peace is the foundation of Happiness- for where there is Anxiety, Tension,and Turmoil, Joy cannot exist.

Realize that not all movement is progress. When stress and tension and chaos surround you, pause for a moment and relax. The best time to take a deep breath is when you don't have time for it.

We all seek peace. Yet in the name of peace, some are prepared to wage wars!

Keep the smile, leave the tension, feel the joy, forget the worry, hold the peace, leave the pain, always be happy.

I don't know a single person in life that doesn't have conflict.

Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix

Balance is key, without balance there's conflict , a battle between positivity and negativity

3 nice thoughts: Kill tension before tension kills you. Reach your goal before goal kicks you. Live life before LIFE leaves you.

But, for one thing, however fiercely the Dreyfus cyclone was raging, it is not at the onset of a storm that the waves are at their most violent.

Talking to my mother was about as much fun as chewing a ball of tinfoil with a mouthful of fillings.

Deep-seated are the wounds dealt in civil brawls.

we believe there are very few of the world's problems we could not solve with high explosive or a well-aimed bullet.

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

Cooper said nothing. "Jesus." Quinn rubbed at his eyes. "Wait. How does this get him what he wants? Things are worse now for abnorms than ever before. The microchipping, the hate crimes, hell, every third congressman holding press conferences to say we need to lock you all up.

The last twelve hours had been tense, everyone seeing the Mexican border looming large, and beyond it, the wide world into which someone like Vasquez could vanish. But with each move the abnorm made, Cooper got better at predicting the next. Like peeling away layers of tissue paper to reveal the object beneath, a vague form began to resolve into the pattern that defined his target.

A gunfight in a graveyard, Jesus Christ.

A gas man?" Her pupils dilated, and the fine hairs on the back of her neck stood up.

He wasn't scared exactly, but he had that knife's edge thinness he used to get on the job, the sense that things could go either way.

Because all the talk about preventing a war is bullshit. What they really want is to control it. They want to generate and maintain war at a low simmer. They want us all wound up and mistrusting each other. Norms and abnorms, left and right, rich and poor, all of it. The more we fear, the more we need them. And the more we need them, the more powerful they get.

The war continues with no sign that it will end [...]. It's like an avalanche, started by a single gunshot, but which roars down the mountain more loudly than a thousand canons.