Quotes About Tension

She smiled, but it was a disturbing, hard flexing of bane and muscle.

He held her gaze this time, though it made him sweat, and this time it was she who looked away.

The killer child was her mistress. For now.

It was a look Hild recognised: a cat watching a stunned mouse in no hurry to kill. Who was his smile for?

Gwenhwyfar looked at her husband and quivered like a leashed hound with the scent.

Breguswith, distaff tucked under her left arm, rolling her fine-yarn spindle down her thigh with her right, stared absently at the fire, though Hild knew even as her mother's fingers were busy, busy teasing out the yarn, testing its tension, her attention was focused on Ceredig king, who laughed and leaned from his stool and let firelight wink on the thick torc around his neck.

Leah and Gideon were left staring at each other with hollow expressions. Armies marching. War on the way.

man's inherent state of being is one of anxiety and hopelessness.

Way to defuse a situation. It's tough to enjoy a good bloodbath in the middle of a PowerPoint presentation.

Three hours later, she was sitting across from the local sheriff, Jim Peabody, whose face looked like the last piece of jerky in the jar.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

Jerry's fortune cookie said: "Tension, apprehension and dissension have begun.

Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity.

There is nothing quite as painful as a truly awkward silence.

Your body said one thing. Your words said another." It moved a sensory arm to the back of his neck, looping one coil loosely around his neck. "This is the position," it said. "I'll stop now if you like.

JDAHYA WOULD NOT LEAVE her. As much as she had hated her solitary confinement, she longed to be rid of him. He fell silent for a while and she wondered whether he might be sleeping—to the degree that he did sleep. She lay down herself, wondering whether she could relax enough to sleep with him there. It would be like going to sleep knowing there was a rattlesnake in the room, knowing she could wake up and find it in her bed.

Oh hell. If I could just find a balance between holding back too much and pushing, poaching.

Briefly, the mentality of the plant-men in every age was an expression of the varying tension between the two sides of their nature, between the active assertive, objectively inquisitive, and morally positive animal nature and the passive subjectively contemplative and devoutly acquiescent vegetable state nature.

Ka?dy z nas siedzi okrakiem na granicy mi?dzy w?asnym ?wiatem wewn?trznym a ?wiatem zewn?trznym i niebezpiecznie balansuje. To bardzo niewygodna pozycja i niewielu udaje si? utrzyma? równowag?.

We were interrogated as if we had murdered the Commandant with our own hands. Luckily

He felt the pull of investigation and the pull of escape, and swore with frustration.

want peace, prepare for war. Curiously, it seemed most

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.

I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering behind me waiting for my plate to be emptied. Most of all I dreaded paying a bill-my awkwardness when I handed over the money after buying something did not arise from my stinginess, but from excessive tension, excessive embarrassment, excessive uneasiness and apprehension.