Quotes About Tension

Opal Koboi. Ik wist wel dat er nog een psychotisch element aan dit reisje ontbrak. - Holly

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.

Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.

There was severe anger. There was severe disappointment. Endless hostility.

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled, to concentrate, to accept conflict and tension, to be born every day, to feel a sense of self.

As long as human nature is what it is, I'm afraid there will always be another war

I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I'm in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It's so unnatural and uncomfortable.

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

All violence here is born of fear.

Quand la joie devient l'ennemie de la joie...

J'ai lu dernièrement ce témoignage d'un ambassadeur israélien sur sa carrière dans les années cinquante et soixante : "Notre mission était délicate, parce qu'il nous fallait à la fois persuader les Arabes qu'Israël était invincible, et persuader l'Occident qu'Israël était en danger de mort.

Au fil des ans, des crises et des guerres, la terre libanaise est devenue un champ ouvert où se livraient, directement ou par personnes interposées, d'innombrables combats

I live in fear of making an honest mistake in conversation followed by some kind of Maoist-style recrimination session.

No wild beasts are so deadly to humans as most Christians are to each other.

The Alexandrian Mystics taught that Jesus' divinity with a capital D and his humanity with a lower case h are always in dynamic tension and can never be separated.

Jazz at Lincoln Center, says of his work with other jazz musicians: "There are always tensions that come up. Part of working is dealing with tensions. If there's no tension, then you're not serious about what you're doing.

I can feel shutters banging closed in his head, the locks to every door turning sharply. Even his body is tense now,

Like" is a mild sort of word for what Con and I have," Collin replied, leaning forward to touch noses with the big doofus. Constantine half-closed his eyes and twitched his whiskers back. "I"d go with the deeply twisted interpersonal relationship that a hero has for his nemesis, sort of a Batman/Joker thing, if the Joker suddenly started going down on Batman like a porn-star on Viagra." Jeff looked at him in alarm. "Jesus, Sparky, stop touching my cat!

That much sexual tension makes me want to hump a phone pole, and that's just not attractive in a pregnant woman.

Because right now, leaning against Kenny's counter, he was fully, painfully erect, for maybe the first time in months. He backed away and tried to think about something else - anything else. Losing his job, his mother's cat, Denise - oh, there you go. Limp as a politician's moral code.

Was sheathed tightly, stroked by Derek's clenching muscles, swelling in its prince's chamber, even as Rico started to rock back and forth.

he and Noah competing for space like electrons in an unstable gas.

The ball never fucking landed.

It looked like the kind of place where people were shot over the rent money.