Quotes About Tension

who could scarcely remember to put one foot in front of the other when she walked; with the sudden, brutal urgency of a long and terrible wait ended.

Tor said in a strangled voice, He will apologize, or I'll give HIM a lesson in swordplay he will not like at all.

Philip of Macedonia in a message to Sparta: "You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people and raze your city." Sparta's reply: "If.

They'd had a fight again. – You'll have your work cut out for you, I said. One of their quiet ones. She laughed. Where they whispered their screams and roaring. She laughed at me. And she was always the first one to cry and he kept stabbing at her with his face and his words.

Short Life Syndrome. Night watchmen in horror movies have a life expectancy of twelve seconds. SAM WAAs, Houston

The movie teaches us how action is the enemy of suspense—how action releases tension instead of building it. Better to wait for a whole movie for something to happen (assuming we really care whether it happens) than to sit through a film where things we don't care about are happening constantly.

Karl Malden once said the hardest thing he ever had to do as an actor was act as if he didn't know he was about to be hit in the head with a beer can.

Sidestep their attack and deflect it against the problem.

We fought.' 'A duel?' 'Nothing that formal. A simultaneous decision to murder one another is more like it.

It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.

He was staring at me as he advanced, no special expression on that face so like my own.

Time is a noose around the neck, strangling slowly.

My claim is to live to the full contradiction of my time

Endlessly I sustain the discourse of the beloved's absence; actually a preposterous situation; the other is absent as referent, present as allocutory. The singular distortion generates a kind of insupportable present; I am wedged between two tenses, that of the reference and that of the allocution: you have gone (which I lament), you are here (since I am addressing you). Whereupon I know what the present, that difficult tense is: a pure portion of anxiety.

It might have been friction over this issue that caused their relationship to cool in the late 1890s.

This feud, rife with intrigue and lacerating polemics, was to take on an almost pathological intensity.

The idea was not to compete, at least not too openly.

Our country is full of hatred and bitterness and talk."34

Many times, it would be impossible to appease both the United States and Britain.

shooting did erupt nearby.

The two sides projected competing nightmares of what would happen if the other side prevailed.

In this early period, Rockefeller was a chronic worrier who labored under a great deal of self-imposed stress.

He fretted endlessly about his company and, below the surface, was constantly on edge.

All the fortune that I have made has not served to compensate for the anxiety of that period.