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.

The truth of the story lies in the details.

Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects of anesthetic. Dreams reflected the ambient anxiety. One German dreamed that...

Jack Kennedy brought an “intense concentration” and a “gently teasing humor” to the dinner table, along with what Katherine Graham called his habit of “vacuum cleaning your brain.

Suddenly, a car zoomed out of a side street to their right, slamming into the side of the car with a loud metallic crash. Tires screeched. The passenger window shattered, showering glass over Pam as...

tense.

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

indications of the high level of tension in Tonga.

She inched closer to him. “I intrigue you?””You know you do,” he replied boldly, his eyes burning into hers. Wow-things were suddenly heating up fast. He wondered if they would have sex right there on...

Happiness can be a confusing concept for Christians. On one hand, if we serve a good God who promises us a full and abundant life, shouldn’t we be happy? On the other hand, any careful...

It was always exciting, but it was also always dangerous. And fear takes a toll finally: when you live in danger from moment to moment, the constant tension becomes very wearying. Every step I took...

I begin to feel this tension when things that doesn’t worth attention are the things that attracts attention

Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.

Joy is temporary, Happiness is permanent; for it comes out from positive mind and is an art of tension free heart.

Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, I thought. Five layers, and yet I felt it, the nervous warmth of touching – a pale reflection of the fireworks of...

I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about to blast apart at great danger to anyone standing nearby....

It’s a system that moves very slowly, and will create tension for us for many days. It will be a long battle.

The artist is often misunderstood because, stepping outside himself and holding most details in great tension, he’s about as complex as a shape-shifter; or a head with faces on all sides, but not necessarily in...

He saw tears rimming her blue eyes, tears that washed away Drizzt’s anger, that told him that what had happened between himself and Catti-brie had apparently not been so deeply buried. The last time they...

The current political tension is very serious…. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive

No, on the outside view there was nothing for anyone to notice about me. I remained one pillar of a trinity, another pillar was lying only temporarily (temporarily! temporarily! temporarily!) in the hospital, I was...

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

Music is like a huge release of tension.

She’d stutter all the reasons why she shouldn’t, shaking her head adamantly. But her body..her body would grow hot with excitement. She’d get wet at the thrill of it. So fucking wet that i’d smell...

When I began writing stories and exercise books I tried to put off all the things I really wanted to write about till at least the second page. I thought it wouldn’t be like a...

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is...

Relaxing the shoulders is vital for relaxation in general. However, owing to the effects of gravity, relaxation is problematic unless we let the shoulders remain in their natural place. Let the shoulders drop, or settle...

He wasn’t the sort of person I would seek out in the pub, … There was always tension around him and he would argue a lot and get very drunk. His wife Caitlin was a...

I started feeling the tension on the 17th because that’s not an easy hole,

We all know what’s coming. The winds are picking up, spiralling closer and bringing with it a great wave of destruction…none of us can hide…no matter which side you choose, you’ll be dragged into the...

(Dorothy) Dunnett is the master of the invisible, particularly in her later books. Where is this tension coming from? Why is this scene so agonizing? Why is this scene so emotional? Tension and emotion pervade...

We see these jerky head movements, jerky eye movements. That indicates muscle tension being released.

People are only human. They let there emotions get the best of them sometimes. It’s a weakness.Some can’t handle rejection without reaction So when you say “No” it burns some people who are in high...

…you can be angry and silent, but it’s no use – there’s no distance in the spirit – besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands…

Is it just me, or is there a lot of sexual tension in here?

Enoch could respond with nothing more than a simple gesture in the orbs’ direction. His brain was frozen. He could not think or speak, but the voiceless answer roused Fallon instantly. When he followed Enoch’s...

The world’s only lessons are tension and fear — relax into yourself.

The tension in the Middle East and other issues such as Nigeria will keep prices from falling. There are a lot of things that could occur in coming days, and none of them are positive.

There is a powerful tension in our relationship to technology. We are excited by egalitarianism and anonymity, but we constantly fight for our identity.

There’s always tension, because we’re all individuals.

The Cause that caused a Fear need not appear again. There for not fear about Fear.

Tension is the Mirror of our Past.

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

A gust of wind doesn’t suddenly bang a door open. A clock doesn’t chime. The phone doesn’t ring. Yet in the next instant the stillness breaks as if it is crystal.

Gerremoffme!” he yelled, but with one last look of vindictive fury, Hermione wrenched open the door and disappeared through it. Harry thought he heard a sob before it slammed.

I have never been sad because my losses are my profits

Endings are abstruse, mystic and unreal. They are but depleted beginnings purposed to be substituted with newer ones.A transition of outlook and time, similar to our differing moods before and after slumber. Before the act...

Many find in sex and economics the meaning of life and the reason of it all. The consequence of this is that the goal of life for many has become a relief of tension.

They will be happy about the upgrading of relations, even if it comes at the expense of more tension in U.S.-China relations.