Quotes about Tension

The nuisance of her presence outweighs the gratification to be derived from tormenting her

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

I like a semi-stressful massage - one where I can really feel something being worked out.

The more you resist something, the more aggressive it becomes.

I was the oldest of four children, and the atmosphere was volatile for all of us. My father and mother were in constant conflict, making divorce seem like the only possible outcome.

Keep away, keep away," Hungry Joe screamed. "I said keep away, keep away, you goddam stinking lousy son of a bitch." "At least we found out what he dreams about," Dunbar observed wryly. "He dreams about goddam stinking lousy sons of bitches.

Gimme eat, I said," he ordered loudly in harsh tones that rumbled ominously through the silent tent like claps of distant thunder.

In practice, I suggest that it is the liturgy that is to enact the settled coherence of church faith, and the sermon that provides the "alien" witness of the text, which rubs against the liturgic coherence.118 There can, in my judgment, be no final resolution of the tension between the systemizing task of theology and the disruptive work of biblical interpretation. It is the ongoing interaction between the two that is the work of interpretation.

The Scriptures were written with built-in tension between texts and its resultant theology.

I've always been somebody who was just bouncing off the walls and high tension, hyperactive, you know what I'm saying?

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.