Quotes About Tension

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.

But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons.

It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp.

I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border.

Tell me a country that is doing well and has a great leader? You look at the nuclear weapons all over the place, and you look at things like ISIS, and every country seems to have a battle going on.

We can prevent fighting by limiting weapons or finding nonviolent ways to end disputes.

I'm constantly walking on eggshells because I'm wearing a $10k outfit.

Though they don't always have to be set in fog, weather is incredibly important in ghost stories. As is suspense: you've got to turn the screw very, very slowly.

The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Running is a way for me to relax. With one hour of intense running, I can get a lot of physical exercise. I can relax my body. I feel a tension in my muscles when I don't run. In that sense, I need to get out a few times a week in order to do my work as a scientist, which involves a lot of sitting still.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

I was born the year the Troubles began, in 1968. That world of violence was all I knew - people murdered, maimed, kneecapped, bombed. I don't remember a time without a major atrocity of some kind every week.

A lot of weekend players struggle with putting because they have too much tension in their hands and arms, both at address and during the stroke. Tension can turn a technically perfect motion into a herky-jerky mess, especially on those knee-knockers.

In my neighborhood... they view the police as someone who comes to take their loved ones away.

I've had guns pointed at me by police officers.

In general, I think it's an advantage politically to keep people guessing.

We're so politically correct; we take things so seriously.

There is no such thing as a politically correct war.

You cannot be politically correct in a war.

People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

Any time I had my hair in a ponytail, it would give me a headache by the end of the day.

When you play against a top side, you know they will have more possession, and they will be in more control, and you have to find one or two counterattacks.

Where there is love, there is a possibility of violence but it's not that love is connected to violence but there's a possibility.