Quotes About Tension

You know I don't have much experience of big families, but from what I've seen there are two types. The type where everything is out in the open, where they argue and shout and slam doors, and where disagreements are dealt with loudly and quickly. And the other type, where no one really says what they mean, where everyone tiptoes around and emotions are kept buried. ~Here to Stay

1. Recognize that the person you're dealing with isn't able to think rationally in the current situation.

The state, she writes, "is not a thing, system, or subject, but a significantly unbounded terrain of powers and techniques, an ensemble of discourses, rules and practices, cohabiting in limited, tension-ridden, often contradictory relation with one another.

What's a matter Chris? You shitting yourself? You should be!

Conflict is the essence of a novel. Conflict, conflict, and more conflict. Oh, and choices.

Whereas incongruity is the clash of incompatible ideas or perceptions, ambivalence is the simultaneous presence of conflicting emotions, such

fifty meters away and down the length of the stadium. An OT captain and a sergeant trailed him. Pino pressed himself tight to the tunnel

paramilitary police officers believed the Punjab police were on Bhindranwale's

Nothing stays not even change, That can grow tired of it's own name; The very thought too much for it. Somewhere in air a stillness is, So far, so thin- But let it alone. Whoever we are it is not for us

I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.

Kyo Sohma: angrily pointing at Yuki Just like I'll beat you one of these days Yuki: looking bored Wait wait I think I've heard this one before

I don't suppose you would consider peaceful surrender?

As I remember it, the bases were loaded.

Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.

I always found it really funny when actors would come offstage, smoking cigarettes and swearing at each other.

I think that you can make a drama and have it be intensely funny, and vice versa.

You!" she said, stepping forward with a vehement expression and her finger pointed. Heart pounding, I pressed into Al. Funny how he seemed so much safer now. (Newt, Rachel and Al)

The idyllic mayhem of two cultures colliding just doesn't seem as funny anymore.

A lot of things run through your head when you're going in to relieve in a tight spot. One of them was, "Should I spike myself?"

Horror films are very functional like comedies. The main thing with a comedy, the big question is "is it funny?" And with horror the question is "is it scary?"

I like films that are so funny, dramatic and lifelike simultaneously, that you are laughing and cringing simultaneously all throughout the film.

They are becoming hysterical. This is the result of frustration.

Iraq will spread them even more and chop them up.

America has become so tense and nervous it has been years since I have seen anyone sleep in church - and that is a sad situation.