Quotes About Tension

They faced each other. 'I'm going to enjoy this,'Melancholia said. 'I daresay I'm not.

Sanguine felt the ridiculous urge to reach out and poke him, just to see if he'd react, but he'd seen that kind of anger before. It was the quiet kind. The dangerous kind.

With the speed of a cobra, Scapegrace lashed out at Bagatelle, catching him on the ear with a vicious chop. He ducked as Shun reached for him, and spun with a kick that came dangerously close to landing. Mud fired off a punch that Scapegrace blocked with his chin, and Scapegrace countered with a flailing hand to the air as he fell.

Hmmm... that's interesting." "What?" "There seems to be a gentleman walking towards us with a shotgun.

The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend - Skulduggery Pleasant.

The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.

Scapegrace swivelled his eyes to her and she yelped and dropped his head. He bounced, and landed on his ear. "I'll get you," he wheezed. "All of you. You're dead!" Valkyrie didn't know what to do. She glanced back. Even Melancholia's eyes widened in surprise.

Any moment now, China was about to perspire.

Amber stared at him. Glen started crying. It kind of ruined the moment.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain?

But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict

War is an option of difficulties.

Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

A good life is like a weaving. Energy is created in the tension. The struggle, the pull and tug are everything.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

There is always a charge, of one kind or another. *

All of the things that wore you down, even as that was balanced by the electric feeling of being on the side of a border where you knew things no one else knew.

As we descended into the tower, I felt again, for the first time in a long time, the flush of discovery I had experienced as a child. But I also kept waiting for the snap.

De haber habido algo a lo que disparar se habría sentido más tranquila; pero solo teníamos lo que acechara en nuestra imaginación.

Someone was breathing. Behind him. Someone was breathing on his neck. The knowledge froze him, froze the cry of "Jesus fuck!" in his throat. He turned with an incredible slowness..

Silence creates its own violence.

The worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of the battle

Over the course of nearly a half-century, Cuba, Congo, Ghana, Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Iran, Namibia, Mozambique, Chile, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and even tiny Granada, among many others, were interpreted by U.S. strategists as battlegrounds with the Soviet empire.