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.

How we present ourselves at any given time is dependent on the situation. We constantly balance the tension of high aspirations with the pragmatism of realistic expectations. The key is to represent ourselves in such...

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren’t quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.

so much is happening now; you must be patient like someone who is sick, and confident like someone who is recovering; for perhaps you are both. And more: you are also the doctor, who has...

It’s another sign of the tension that is enflaming this strike, … GM is just pushing the UAW here, tweaking them.

Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)

While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplished by deadening a part of the body or reducing its motility so that feeling is diminished. The repression of...

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways–and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But...

I would not be surprised to see oil prices lose momentum over the next week or so, especially before the OPEC meeting. My hunch here is that as part of the agreement to ease tension...

However, tension has relaxed a bit and the market came off.

Since the experience is different for each individual, the tension will reflect that experience. In some persons the whole lower half of the body is relatively immobilized and held in a passive state; in others...

Basically, some easing of the tension vis a vis the Iran situation helped to take some of the worries out of the market in term of potential supply disruption from that country.

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.