Tense Situation Quotes

#1. America has become so tense and nervous it has been years since I have seen anyone sleep in church - and that is a sad situation.

Norman Vincent Peale

#2. Who has the courage to set right those misperceptions that bring us love?

Joseph O'Neill

#3. The daughters are tired of kissing each other, although some are not.

Donald Barthelme

#4. Raven scowled at her. 'Fine. But if I accidentally shoot you because my aim is shaky, because I'm too tense, because I wasn't given the chance to relax before going into a potentially very dangerous situation, you'll be happy blaming only yourself?

A. Ashley Straker

#5. I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.

Yoko Ono

#6. The ability to keep things in perspective is very important for a journalist. In a tense situation you need the ability to be there, yet somehow step aside; to keep a cool head and keep working without getting frustrated.

Philip Jones Griffiths

#7. I felt like I had never really heard of a story that reflected the stuff I was going through as a mom. I came up with an idea for a story about motherhood that I would want to read.

Katherine Center

#8. For me, the best time to pray is the very moment a tense situation or an unspiritual attitude overtakes me. God the Holy Spirit is always there, ready to help me gain victory in the spiritual battles I face-big or small.

Billy Graham

#9. Work harder, get closer and be passionate about what you photograph.

Martin Parr

#10. That just the way it is. Some things will never change. That's just the way it is. But don't you believe them.

Malorie Blackman

#11. We don't read to observe the character from a distance. We read to become the character and experience the conflicts and rewards they are experiencing.

Darynda Jones

#12. I've always had that knack for staying pretty even keel and the more the situation gets tense the more I see things clearly and I think that's just a knack that I've always had.

Tiger Woods

#13. It was like living in a new house. I saw the undersides of tables, walked through the tangle of chair legs. It would be good to be a dog, I thought. You would feel safe surrounded by all of these leggy objects that never tried to run away.

Augusten Burroughs

#14. Mom Memorial Haiku [1]
I feel my mom so
much alive in me that there's
not even room for me.

Beryl Dov

#15. The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

Alden Nowlan

#16. Rufus had caused her trouble, and now he had been rewarded for it. It made no sense. No matter how kindly he treated her now that he had destroyed her, it made no sense.

Octavia E. Butler

#17. When we're with other people and they say nothing, the situation becomes irritating, tense, unbearable.

Paulo Coelho

#18. You pay a price for the 'gift' of an active imagination. While mine played a major part in making me a writer, it also made me adept at transforming run-of-the-mill molehills into towering mountain ranges.

Jean Little

#19. A small way to have control in a tense situation, I suppose

Sara Shepard

#20. "There is only one thing I want to be part of. You."

Aleksandr Voinov

#21. Normally I laugh at such things, because there is nothing like a fart to lighten up a tense situation.

Kevin Hearne

#22. Anger met with anger only increases enmity rather than diffusing a tense situation. Anger, in turn, gives birth to hate. In such cases the wisest thing to do is not to engage through emotion. Emotions are self-centered and denying them spares animosity.

Donna Lynn Hope

#23. To conquer your biology, stop seeing people sexually and start seeing them as family. In our day, we have really a perverted notion where it's like strangers and potential sexual objects.

Mark Driscoll