Quotes About Tension

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.

Even the wisest man grows tense/with some sort of violence/before he can accomplish fate,/know his work or choose his mate.

I'm like a machine being run over its RPM limit. The bearings are overheating: a minute longer and the metal will melt and start dripping and that will be the end of everything. I need a splash of cold water, logic; I pour it on in buckets but the logic hisses on the hot bearings and dissipates in the air as a fleeting white mist

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

You cannot cut an apple with an apple. I have interrupted that living to write: the story of a faux-prodigy, which is the real story of Fabienne and Agnes, as real as on that day when we were in th graveyard, wanting, and unable, to kill each other; wanting, and unable, to save each other.

Begun this Clone War has.

We don't want a fight, but business dictates we can't be made into fools.

We are heading toward a new confrontation in the north but I don't know when it will happen, just as we did not know when the second Lebanon war would erupt, although Hezbollah is part of the Lebanese government, the latter has no influence on it.

revolution was just a short step away from counterrevolution.

Ever since then violent anticipation has always been an anguish rather than joy for me.

Cuando la intimidad carnal se viste con la dignidad de una indumentaria como la que llevaban los dos esa tarde, engendra una tensión contenida tal que parece que los cuerpos, aguantando el aliento, estuvieran llamándose el uno al otro. Es lo que se llama la 'filosofía del atuendo'.

Whether it's anger, panic, doubt, tension, nervousness or pressure…you can't let your emotions throw you! That's the thing you've really gotta learn…to look only at the stones. You can do this through selfobservation and training. It doesn't matter what your general nature is like, you can acquire the skill to overcome distraction.

For real peace is not the mere absence of war. Real peace is the implausibility of war. There has never been real peace in the world.

Anton Chekhov famously said that a gun appearing in the first act of a play will inevitably be fired in the third. Throughout

Previous generations thought about peace as the temporary absence of war. Today we think about peace as the implausibility of war.

Of all human collective activities, the one most difficult to organise is violence.

For real peace is not the mere absence of war. Real peace is the implausibility of war.

You can do many things with bayonets, but it is rather uncomfortable to sit on them.

just as in 1914 the murder of an Austrian archduke sparked the First World War, so in 2018 some incident in the Syrian desert or an unwise move in the Korean peninsula might ignite a global conflict.

the real root of suffering is this never-ending and pointless pursuit of ephemeral feelings, which causes us to be in a constant state of tension, restlessness and dissatisfaction.

Tikra taika - tai ne karini? veiksm? stygius. Tikra taika yra pad?tis, kai karas tiesiog ne?tik?tinas.

You can do many things with bayonets, but it is rather uncomfortable to sit on them.' A

Halt!..." Wade leaped at the white Belllounds. "If you run I'll break a leg for you--an' then I'll beat your miserable brains out!... Have you no sense? Can't you recognize what's comin'?... I'm goin' to kill you, Buster Jack!" "My God!" whispered the other, understanding fully at last.

They're both very proud and very stubborn, and they absolutely refuse to admit that they're attracted to each other. It adds a little zip to the show.