Quotes About Tension

When a major character died in the twentieth episode I had to pause seven minutes while it sat there in the feed doing the bot equivalent of staring at a wall, pretending that it had to run diagnostics. Then four episodes later the character came back to life and it was so relieved we had to watch that episode three times before it would go on.

talking to Frost had become less like negotiating with a small angry hostage

Target Two accidentally (I'm guessing here; maybe they just didn't care for each other) stabbed Target One.

I choked her until she was unconscious and then broke her arm to give her something else to worry about if she revived too soon. I didn't take her projectile weapon but I did pause to break a couple of its key components.

On the entertainment feed, this is what they call an "oh shit" moment.

Attacker is still pulling us toward the wormhole," Mihail announced on comm, not sounding too much like someone who was restraining the urge to scream a little.

During all this, Volescu was huddled on the churned up rock, losing his shit, not that I was unsympathetic. I was far less vulnerable in this situation than he was and I wasn't exactly having a great time either.

Ramad's expression tightened. Kai knew what he was thinking and also wished there was a way to make Dahin shut up.

We could kill them,' Stone suggested, not helpfully. It would have been a tense moment, except Heart sighed impatiently and said, 'Line-grandfather, not in front of company.' Delin lifted a hand. 'I know Stone is merely stimulating discussion.' Pearl eyed Stone and lifted her spines. 'Perhaps Stone could stop doing that.

True unity cannot be found, it can only be created. He who creates it realizes the unity of the world in the unity of his soul. Thus beforehand he must live through the tension of the world in his soul as his own soul's tension.

There are times of ripening when the true element of the human spirit, held down and buried, grows ready underground with such pressure and such tension that it merely waits to be touched by one who will touch it -- and then erupts.

British constitutional practice works by holding governmental institutions and practices in a relationship of mutual tension.

You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.

As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness."

Her strength and spirit were both dripping away, leaving her empty inside. She could feel her filth and hunger, and her body was protesting violently about her long period of tension, and drug and alcohol abuse.

The two most powerful nations had been squared off against each other," Khrushchev stated, "each with its finger on the button." "It is insane," Kennedy said, "that two men sitting on opposite sides of the world should be able to decide to bring an end to civilization.

Christine Booth was sick of her mother's voice, it was like a constant

It was rumoured even her husband would cross the road rather than meet Joanie when she had the hump.

F-you, bro.

He turned his steel eyes at me. They hurt me, paralysed me, like the advancing lights of a car. I saw that his body was taut, all of it: also made of steel; that it only worked because it was at an intolerable tension, and that it was our sensation of that tension which had exhausted us, which could no longer be borne. He was the wrong spring which had been put into our machine, that had made Claude ill, George foolish, Boris an anxiety.

Red leaned down so his nose almost touched hers and bellowed, "You should be worried! You're losing all of them! You are going to mind me, woman!

People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.

To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.

Love is a kind of warfare.