Quotes About Tension

Alex said, his voice subdued, tense. "So it would seem," D.D.

Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.

The package destroys not just the peace process but all the peace dynamics in society. This is a bid to crush opposition.

What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.

The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.

You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension.

Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.

Charge' means coming together of all the circumstances and 'discharge' means the circumstances get over.

Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

If they play dirty, then you play dirty.

Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.

War was about yawning chasms of inactivity, punctuated by brief, screaming interludes of action. And in those brief, screaming interludes, events happened both quickly and with dreamlike slowness, every instant burned into memory.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

As long as armies exist, any serious quarrel will lead to war.

To arm is to give one's voice and make one's preparations, not for peace but for war.

you create severe anxiety when you jump from inclination to "musturbation.

Too much tension is a disease; but so is too little. There are certain occasions when we ought to be tense, when an excess of tranquility (and especially of tranquility imposed from the outside, by a chemical) is entirely inappropriate.

Alas!  for the Kingdom wherein all these are at war.

Put two macho groups together and give the first desperation and numbers, and the second truncheons and protective clothing, and the result is like a laboratory civil war.

Irene gasped. Have you taken leave of your senses, Stuart? she hissed. Have you? Stuart closed his eyes. No, he said. Au contraire. It was strong language for the Edinburgh New Town, but he had to say it. Don't au contraire me, said Irene. But it was too late. He had.

Do you know what makes for a good still life? I'll tell you: it's when the painter manages to convey a sense that something is about to happen. The objects in the painting all look immobile, but as you contemplate them you begin to feel that at any moment there could be movement. Somebody might come into the room. A storm might blow up outside. The wind will move the curtains. All of these things might happen.

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.