Quotes About Tension

Bases loaded and nobody out is a pretty impossible situation.

It is a do-or-die battle every time we play India.

Brothers beating each other up. Everyone wants to see that.

Everyone loves good dressing room drama. But nothing beats main stage drama!

I go to bed angry every night, and I get up angrier every morning.

If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.

Good TV is not about people being happy; it's drama.

The more improbable the situation and the greater the demands made on [the climber], the more sweetly the blood flows later in release from all that tension. The possibility of danger serves merely to sharpen his awareness and control. And perhaps this is the rationale of all risky sports: You deliberately raise the ante of effort and concentration in order, as it were, to clear your mind of trivialities.

Diplomacy, grace, and mercy had their place. So did steel, vengeance, and strength.

Extremism, racism, nativism, and isolationism, driven by fear of the unknown, tend to spike in periods of economic and social stress

conceived and held up to the angry

You keep staying on our block we gonna have to show you what the burner do." "Thank you, it's great meeting you," says Phoenix. "What's a burner?" I whisper. "A gun," Phoenix whispers back. The man loops and rejoins the others. The streets are deserted. It's just the dealers and us. But then, miraculously, a taxi passes. I flag it. The superheroes all have bulletproof vests. I have nothing. I have a cardigan.

He was one man screaming at 10,000 people screaming at him. He berated and scolded and called his attackers hypocrites at first, all this made them even more incensed. But he didn't budge. He was a tireless defender of himself.

He felt like a helium balloon straining skyward on a slender string.

It's something to be anxious about, Manley said, if you want to be anxious about something.

Then again, there had always been something not quite right about the Berglunds.

Her very difficulty created friction, and friction led to satisfaction...

For the next two hours Denise mainly paid attention to her hand, which she'd laid on the sofa cushion within easy reach of Robin's. The hand wasn't comfortable there, it wanted to be retracted, but she didn't want to give up hard-won territory. When the movie ended they watched TV, and then they were silent for an impossibly long time, five minutes or a year, and still Robin didn't take the warm, five-fingered bait. Denise would have welcomed some pushy male sexuality right around now.

The rage inside him was titanic. How to keep from exploding? What a relief exploding was.

the weekly thirty minutes of sexual stress was a chronic but low-grade discomfort, like the humidity in Florida

Enid and Sylvia resumed relations stiffly, their emotional muscles pulled and aching from last night's overuse.

ticklers bearing down on Kim Perkins, David Goya pissed off at them.

We looked at each other until it felt like everything would burst into flames

Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each other as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon.