Quotes About Tension

YOUR JOB IS TO BALANCE THE TENSION BETWEEN ENCOURAGING CONFIDENTIALITY AND KNOWING WHEN TO PROMPT ONE OF YOUR FEW TO USE DISCRETION.

You are the leader. You can't do away with tension. You can manage it.

Wyatt dared a look at her. Jaw set, eyes mistrustful. She didn't want to be there. He didn't want her there. Maybe they could work together?

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

How many contradictions! Eh! If I loaded my wagon all on the same side, I'd tumble it over.

Our unending discords are the ransom of our freedom.

Conflict is one of the most difficult situations we face because it thrusts us out of our comfort zone.

effect, but in the top of the ninth, with the score still 1–0 and the tension at Shea

All there was to it, he was in a panic. He was scared stiff that any minute a fact might come bouncing in that would force him to send me down to Cramer bearing gifts, and there was practically nothing on earth he wouldn't rather do, even eating ice cream with cantaloupe or horseradish on oysters.

It strikes me, sir, that you are nearing the point where even a grateful American might tell you to go to the devil.-Nero Wolfe to an FBI Agent

You're damn right I would." Cramer took a step toward the door, remembered his hat, reached across the red leather chair to get it, and marched out. I went to the hall to see that he was on the outside when he shut the door. When I stepped back in, Wolfe spoke. "No mention of anonymous letters. A stratagem?

He looked at her. That was the first time I had seen him give her a direct and explicit look, and, since she was just off the line from him to me, I had a good view of it. It demolished one detail of his exposition—the claim that a man of his training and temperament couldn't possibly commit a murder. His look at her was perfect for a guy about to put a cord around a neck and pull tight. It was just one swift, ugly flash, and then he returned to Wolfe.

Since the phone conversation was none of my business, I stood and listened to it, and gathered that someone named Philip had better put in an appearance by five o'clock or else.

The fat was in the fire, and the problem was dodging the spatters.

You cannot bring what you want to you if you are feeling stress. Stress or any tension at all is something you have to remove from your system.

The emotion of stress is saying strongly that you do NOT have what you want. Stress or tension is the absence of faith, and so to remove it, all you have to do is increase your faith!

What does it feel like to be in harmony with the Universe? It is the same feeling as when you float on water. If you are tense, or if you resist the water, you will sink. If you surrender to the water, the water will support you and you will float. That is the feeling, and that is how you harmonize yourself with the Universe. Let the tension go and float!

Actually, no, I couldn't wait.

De pronto aparece, porque esas son las reglas del juego, una aguja que revienta la burbuja que se ha estado cuidando como una inocencia: y ya, fin de la tregua.

Fine! Whatever! Just be careful, my hands are still slippery with your blood.

As for Kirsten, every day made her more unhappy: she felt Jack blaming her for something but she didn't know what she'd done.

I am sorry for you with all my heart. But you cannot blame us, for you came to kill us if you could.

Surprisingly, muscle tension can even break a hip before the person has reached the ground. It's a frightening thought, but a good example of how stressed muscles can become.