Quotes About Tension

he was leaving me. I wondered if I should stop him. If I should wrestle him to the ground and force him to love me. I wanted to hold his shoulders down and shout into his face.

Za posledních tÃ…â"¢i a p?l tisíce let bylo v celém civilizovaném svÄ›tÄ› jenom dvÄ› stÄ› tÃ…â"¢icet let míru.

Wolf Blitzer had once again relieved the horrible tension of his purgatorial beard—neither a beard nor not a beard—with yet another new pair of glasses.

La tensión de algo que se veía venir, algo irracional porque venía untado de violencia, imbécil porque tenía su origen en la política, cruel porque en ello había metido la mano la religión.

Nos duele sostener esa luz tirante y distinta, esa alucinación que impone al espacio el unánime miedo de la sombra.

They are equals, but not the same, because when you lose the tension of polarities you lose the tension of life.

Relations between Terra and Luna had been strained since the Lunans had eaten Neil Armstrong in 1960.

Flux heightens is into knots of staid tension.

How the hell is he supposed to sleep when his brain is running a nonstop festival of horror films. First

Ce n'était pas prévu. Le monde était ainsi pourtant, en suspens, en attente. Et j'allais devoir me battre maintenant.

Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?

I'm not really sure how we've arrived at this ridiculous juncture, and I'd be a great deal happier if we weren't pointing these things at one another, wouldn't you?

Here's what happens when a guy blows up during your group therapy session that's supposed to make you feel better about people blowing up. The group therapy session is officially cancelled. You do not feel better.

The only thing we knew for certain was the American Civil War was not a prelude to a kiss.

The whole thing didn't seem to bother Geraline but rattled poor Lang so bad that the little girl had to hold his cigarette while he lit it. She even told Lang he didn't have the nerves for gangster work.

holding Michael had always been like holding a little person, who knew that his feeding would end, who knew that if you were picked up you would be put down, that the comfort came but also went. Without knowing what it was, I'd felt that tension in his little groping arms and fitful legs, the discomfort of the foreknowledge

he'd use both hands to try to pry my thumb

But holding Michael had always been like holding a little person, who knew that his feeding would end, who knew that if you were picked up you would be put down, that the comfort came but also went. Without knowing what it was, I'd felt that tension in his little groping arms and fitful legs, the discomfort of the foreknowledge

I knew Michael had to be right about the argument that would come later because Mom didn't say anything about us being gone or even ask where we'd been. In the kitchen, Dad had the extra cheerfulness he got with us when Mom was angry at him. He let us each drop a lobster in the boiling water. He had to hold Alec so he'd be high enough not to get his hand splashed. Their black antennae whipped back and forth against the sides of the pot before disappearing.

became aware of how far gone I was when I found myself trying to Scotch-tape a broken pretzel together to stop my four-year-old from crying.

There seemed to be an enormous space between them all the time at the moment and it was easier to bear if they weren't in the same room

Making peace is harder than making war.

When diplomacy ends, War begins.

Being a color in Texas is to wake stressed from being.