Quotes About Tension

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Do you know what we mean by Cold War? —War don't have no temperature.

The two men who bring guns to the ghetto don't know what to do since when music hit you can't hit it back.

The car is hopping over bumps, jumping, tearing, screeching. The green car in sight, out of sight, vanishing around a corner only to appear when I skate around, behind three or four cars. God, I hope he's not trying to lose me. I almost said "give me the slip." I could feel it coming but I didn't.

People think it way past the time when anybody can remember who start things first, but don't get the history of the ghetto twist up, decent people. Buntin-Banton and Dishrag start it first. And when PNP win the 1972 election all hell break loose. First

That's the problem with peace. Peace make you careless.

Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.

Wh-what do you think you are doing?" "I am getting some sleep, Governess. And so help me, if you keep me from it, your lovely backside will be a latticework of switch marks." Summer held her breath as Wade yawned, shifted, and settled into a more comfortable position. Surely he was not thinking she would remain with him like this for the rest of the night! "Captain Wade, I must insist--!" "Blood

The ability to offer empathy to people in stressful situations can defuse potential violence.

We think we are in sync with our environment, but actually it's at war with us.

Lily, the girl who'd talked back to the jock, said, "I want to get as far away from my parents as possible. We're like potassium and water." The other kids laughed and I said, "Huh?" "If potassium comes into contact with water, it instantly combusts," Lily said slowly so if she was talking to a child.

You know, talking to you is as satisfying as smashing my fingers with a hammer.

The bounty hunter sniffed and stood his ground as the outstretched tentacle at his boot flicked its glistening tip toward his face.

Data suggests family dramas bear a less than 10 percent resemblance to actual human families, which is unsurprising and also a relief, considering all the murders. In the dramas, not Mensah's family.

Frankly, I didn't know what station security was going to do about it, either. In fact, I'm sure station security was now shitting itself almost as hard as I metaphorically was.

It looked like a clip from an action series, right before something drastic happened. Then something drastic happened.

You're all idiots," Stone said, gave Bramble a shove to the head, and walked out. Bramble slumped and sighed in relief. "Stone still loves us.

In a voice soft and deep as night, she said, "Where is he?" Moon's breath caught in his chest. Leaving, he thought, turning for the door. He would have made it, but Stone was fast even as a groundling, and caught his wrist.

Yellow came towards me and touched the side of my helmet. It took tremendous effort for me not to rip his arm off, and I'd like that noted for the record, please.

But the fact remained that a tense situation just made McKay think faster. You could probably phrase it as an equation, where the increasing awfulness of whatever tight spot they were in was directly proportional to the speed of McKay's ability to think a way out of it.

He looked up to see Ranea staring at him, her eyes brilliant with rage. She said, "You did this." "No. I was here." In hindsight, he probably shouldn't have smiled when he said it.

Even the humans think about killing the humans, especially here. I hate mines, and mining, and humans who work in mining, and of all the stupid mines I can remember, I hate this stupid mine the most. But the humans hate it more.

Data suggests family dramas bear a less than 10 percent resemblance to actual human families, which is unsurprising and also a relief, considering all the murders. In the dramas, not Mensah's family.

they still had to tell me about what had caused the latest fight. (I don't remember what it was, I deleted it from my memory as soon as I could get out of the room.)