Quotes About Tension

There are no atheists in foxholes, and no liberals in bar fights, and what

Earp forced Kowalsky into a back room, pulled out a revolver, and told the lawyer to get ready to meet his maker. Kowalsky's jowly face dropped onto his chest and he dozed off. Earp stormed from the room, saying, "What can you do with a man who goes to sleep just when you're going to kill him!

We'd rip out the hedges and burn the hooches and blow all the wells and kill every chicken, pig and cow in the whole fucking ville. I mean, if we can't shoot these people, what the fuck are we doing here?

the difference between a physiotherapist and a terrorist is that you might have a chance of negotiating with a terrorist.

the difference between a physiotherapist and a terrorist is that you might have a chance of negotiating with a terrorist." ? Adrian McKinty, The Island

Two families—one side wears tuxedos and holds a gas can, the other wears a frilly gown and holds a match.

Nothing like the theater to bring out the claws and pepper in people.

The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.

Hate is the hidden script in the letter of love; its foundations are shared with its opposite. The woman seduced by her partner's way of kissing her neck, turning the pages of a book, or telling a joke watches irritation collect at precisely these junctures. It is as if the end of love is already contained in its beginning, the ingredients of love's collapse eerily foreshadowed by those of its creation.

The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once (we soon feel ungrateful) or those who never allow us to kiss them (we soon forget them), but those who know how to carefully administer varied doses of hope and despair.

Most business meetings involve one party elaborately suppressing a wish to shout at the other: 'just give us the money'.

Eying him, Finn felt he knew the type if not the man. His only fear then was that the man might shoot first and ask questions later. Thankfully, he did not.

His only fear then was that the man might shoot first and ask questions later. Thankfully, he did not.

It was evident from both Hux's tone and body language that he held no love for the newcomer. The feeling was mutual; neither took pains to hide his contempt.

Han Solo," came the clipped voice of the gang leader, "you are a dead man.

confronted by seven tall, cloaked figures, dark and foreboding, all armed.

War is a perversion of sex.

He plans to use every low-down technique he knows to loosen up the suspect, everything from good cop/bad cop to a four-pound bag of oranges that damage the internal organs but don't leave a mark upon the skin. Or, failing that, he'll Google him. Sure

always stay balanced—neither too tight nor too loose—like the bow.

Her Shadowblade Prime was fully roused now, power rolling away from her in uncontrollable waves. Her Blades wouldn't be able to ignore it. She had to get to the vault before they came running to stop her like a horde of hysterical nannies.

Sleep was not a friend these days. It was just the waiting period between nightmares.

Mais quand t'en as marre de dire non, tu finis par dire oui pour avoir la paix, et les problèmes commencent.

As far as we are concerned, there is no dislike, no personal tension, no disunity or strife that cannot be overcome by intercessory prayer. Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.

When a Jew dies on a Christian bosom he dies impaled.