Quotes About Tension

A cocked .38 doesn't feel the same as an unprimed revolver. The frame tightens differently, the trigger is on a hair and this tension is communicated to you and the people around you.

The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.

I do not have a very peaceful life.

The blatant aggressiveness of theocracies I find distressing, because I grew up when Christians, Muslim and animists lived peacefully together.

Work place romances always seem to get very confused and peculiar, in my experience.

The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.

The United States and the D.P.R.K. will not overcome a legacy of 70 years of war and hostility on the Korean Peninsula through the course of a single Saturday.

You know how a lot of people say they could go crazy? Well, I feel I live very close to that line.

The relationship with Pep wasn't a very good one.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.

I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.

I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon.

This is a soul under perpetual migraine attack.

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

If, God forbid, a war with Iran breaks out, it will be a nightmare. And we will all be in it, including the Persian Gulf countries and Saudi Arabia. No one will remain unscathed.

Sweet is war to those who know it not.

Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

We have mixed feelings about the seductive notion of destiny. There's a persistent tension between wanting our life's purpose to be revealed to us by some higher power and wanting to scrap and fight for it against all odds—to earn it without help. We think about destiny sort of like how we feel about inheritance—we covet its fruit but it's sweeter if we earned it ourselves.

Ia menyimpan dendam. Dendam yang terus menyala sebelum pembunuhan menutupnya. Dan dendam itu bisa menjalar jadi perang kampung.

Hyang Mahadewa tahu bagaimana membikin Jagad Pramudita seimbang. Kerusuhan mengimbangi kedunguan.

She's always in my hair

The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laugther, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung.