Quotes About Tension

Her hand shot to the front of his breeches, making claws of her fingers and trapping his genitals in a tight grip. He froze. As if testing, she hefted the firm weight she found. Heavy, but so very delicate. She bared her teeth. "And even in the dark, now I'll know that I'm ripping off the right cods." His eyes narrowed, and the hot interest she saw in his gaze sent shivers skittering down her spine. That wasn't just business now. She tightened her grip.

La guerra no pide armas. Es al contrario: las armas hacen nacer la guerra.

There can be no light without generating heat," adds Durango. "And confrontation generates heat and light.

Lebanon War, he entered Beirut at the head of

As long as people use violence to combat violence, we will always have violence.

Sabrina?" "Daphne! Are you okay?" "Yes. Sabrina?" "What?" "I hate you!" the little girl screamed.

looked as if he might hit Jack, but the giant killer just

And in that full day, while Jed slept and woke and worked and loved, the forces in the world around him rushed headlong toward an inevitable, and violent, climax.

It was like he was being pulled in a single direction, but by two diametrically opposed forces—if such a thing could be possible.

They'd lived their lives on tightropes, never knowing where the next paycheck was coming from or if one was coming at all, their personal lives a mishmash of backstage affairs and dressing room brawls endured for the brief heady adrenaline rush brought by the orchestra's overture and glare of white lights.

in Baltimore Harbor. While the U-boat haunted Americans

It's like one of those dreams you have when someone is chasing you. You're running as fast as you can, and someone's trotting behind you, just out of range, trying to grab onto you.

Sex is class warfare. You must understand your weapon if you wish to emerge the victor from the struggle.

Why this relentless pull to the left and to the right, as if a path zigzagging through perilous ravines and precipitous heights were a better way? It was not a better way. He knew it, and yet the tug remained.

When you're in this state of mind you are constantly 'on edge'.

Cole jumped into the bow of the boat and walked slowly to where the short Khmer Rouge soldier was lying, grabbing the bullet wound in his left shoulder with the cup of his right hand. It was not a fatal wound. And Cole was about the fix that.

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

A Car Accident

And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.

for years now there had been no country here but the war.

Page took the record that was playing on the turntable off without asking anybody and put on Jimi Hendrix: long tense organic guitar line that made him shiver like frantic electric ecstasy was shooting up from the carpet through his spine straight to the old pleasure center in his cream-cheese brain, shaking his head so that his hair waved all around him, Have You Ever Been Experienced?

Holding on brings tension, letting go brings peace. We already know it, we just don't trust it.

It seemed clear that people in love lived in constant jeopardy. They were either making love or making each other crazy.