Quotes About Tension

We want to see drama told in a cathartic way, with power, with emotion where you empathize and then you're frightened. All those feelings charge up in you and you feel for the story.

Suspense was an excellent tool for keeping powerful people off balance. It gave one bargaining power.

Darkness can inspire light, and light can inspire darkness, its just a difference of distant of these two contrasting forces.

I see a world on the edge of a blade. Without balance, it will fall.

I have a very bad relationship with the future. We don't get on. We just ignore each other.

The two countries [Pakistan and India] have already come close to nuclear confrontation twice and this could get worse. So dealing with the relationship with India is extremely important.

Something unspeakable left the room.

and the hand that was obscuring her face was trembling. Lowering her arm, she turned and looked up at Karras, revealing a haggard-eyed, tearstained face. "So what's doin'?" she said. "What's new?" Karras studied her before answering, "Well, the latest is I've looked at the records from Barringer Clinic and—" "Yes?" Chris interjected tensely. "Well, I believe…" "You believe

For an instant, Karras throbbed with a surge of rebellion, with a dull, weary anger at the piling on of weight upon weight.

I'd of shot him in town if he lived that long.

The tension between the governed and the governing is what makes the world go 'round. It's not love, it's that tension, because that tension exists in love affairs. The whole idea of control is at the heart of human relationships. Control and resistance to control.

Take but degree away, untune that string,And, hark! what discord follows; each thing meetsIn mere oppugnancy: the bounded watersShould lift their bosoms higher than the shores,And make a sop of all this solid globe.

The sun's o'ercast with blood: fair day, adieu!Which is the side that I must go withal?I am with both: each army hath a hand;And in their rage, I having hold of both,They whirl asunder and dismember me.

Stemming it with hearts of controversy.

William Shakespeare

Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat.

O! what a war of looks was then between them.

The wars we haven't had saved many lives.

Everybody is tense. Tad does his best to

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

And so no force however great can stretch a cord however fine into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight.

Like Uncle Si says, it's never a good family reunion when you start firing relatives.

Marriage is like the Middle East, isn't it? There's no solution.