“If you turn the heat down on the relationship, she will soften, the tension will lessen, and she will eventually inch closer to you. Don't go in for the hug until you achieve a handshake.” IfsTurnsWomenAchieveHeatTensionInchesHugHandshake Author:Amy Dickinson
“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 on the roads of Gelderland was nerve-wracking, because I was secretly carrying the very material that could turn out to be my own death warrant.” MomentsTurnsMy OwnStepsDangerousDangerMaterialsExcitingConstantTensionNervesEvery StepTollsWarrants Author:Diet Eman
“There's always a tension in my world between the pragmatic and the practical and the theoretical. I have a very theoretical turn of mind, but I also like to test things in place.” WorldMindTurnsTestsPracticalsTensionTheoreticalPragmatic Author:Michael Pollan
“R.G. Belsky's thought-provoking thriller, The Kennedy Connection, introduces us to a smart, witty, and human hero whose quest to find answers about two crimes - one famous, one all but unnoticed - is loaded with tension and full of unexpected twists and turns. I loved The Kennedy Connection, and can't wait for the next Gil Malloy novel.” HumansTwoTurnsNextWaitingAnswersNovelCrimeHeroSmartConnectionsWittyTensionUnexpectedThought ProvokingQuestsIntroducingProvokingTwistsLoadedThrillersUnnoticedTwists And Turns Author:Jan Burke
“The self must be a tense bow. It must struggle with opposites rather than harmonize them, rather than turn the tension over to the great instruments of last manhood the skilled bow unbenders and Jesuits of our days, the psychiatrists, who, in the same spirit and as part of the same conspiracy of modernity as the peace virtuosos, reduce conflict.” SelfLastsSpiritTurnsStruggleConflictOppositesInstrumentsTensionConspiracyBowsManhoodTenseModernityPsychiatristJesuit Book:Closing of the American Mind Source: Closing of the American Mind
“I have sometimes wondered also whether in people like me who come to the boil fast (soupe au lait, the French call this trait, like a milk soup that boils over) the tantrum is not a built-in safety valve against madness or illness. ... The fierce tension in me, when it is properly channeled, creates the good tension for work. But when it becomes unbalanced I am destructive. How to isolate that good tension is my problem these days. Or, put in another way, how to turn the heat down fast enough so the soup won't boil over!” PeopleWaySometimesEnoughProblemTurnsBuiltMadnessAngerSafetyIllnessLike MeThese DaysHeatTensionDestructiveMilkTraitsFierceSoupAnother WayTantrumsUnbalancedValve Author:May Sarton
“Heather A. Slomski's stories are downright addictive. I kept promising myself to turn off the light after just one more, and then breaking that promise, beguiled by her cool, measured prose and by the surprises, tensions, and uncanny encounters simmering beneath its elegant surface.” StoriesLightTurnsPromiseSurpriseSurfaceTensionEncountersJust OneProseElegantTurn OffUncannyHeathers Author:Sarah Shun-lien Bynum