Tensing Up Quotes

#1. Travis walked me to class, his grip tensing a few times when my feet slipped on the ice. "You should be more careful," he teased.
"I'm doing it on purpose. You're such a sucker."
"If you want my arms around you, all you have to do is ask," he said, pulling me into his chest.

Jamie McGuire

#2. Make a conscious effort to loosen your hands and let your arms feel soft when you're at address. Take the club back a bit shorter, and feel as if you're cracking a whip on the way down - not tensing up to smash something hard.

Ernie Els

#3. Gandalf: Often does hatred hurt itself!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. Our happiness is made up of our needs being fulfilled, our fears being kept at bay in a life made up of days, which are based on pursuing what is most important to us.

Malti Bhojwani

#5. The only really good performance is the one where you make yourself vulnerable, while pushing beyond your familiar comfort zone.

Kim Gordon

#6. We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think it's the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off.

Adam Arkin

#7. Don't let fear prevent you from doing something you love.

Grace Buchele Mineta

#8. Dave said, "Tarts' wardrobe?" "Loos." Dave said with sort of admirationosity in his voice, "Outstanding" midnight

Louise Rennison

#9. Even Rudy stood completely erect, feigning nonchalance, tensing himself against the tension.

Markus Zusak

#10. The Internet is complicated. Netiquette is simple. Be nice.

David Chiles

#11. The Word of God was not written to satisfy our curiosity; it was written to # change our lives.

Howard G. Hendricks

#12. I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.

Gabrielle Zevin

#13. Ever since I've met you, I've wanted to break every rule." Aiden turned away, the muscles in his neck tensing. He sighed. "You'll become the centre of someone's world one day. And he'll be the luckiest son of a bitch on this earth.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#14. He pleaseth God whom God pleaseth.

Saint Augustine

#15. Crokus jumped at a faint plopping sound from the stairwell. He laid his hands on his knives, tensing.

Steven Erikson

#16. [ ... ] the body is what we lean toward,
tensing as it darts, dancing away.
but it's the voice that enters us. even
saying nothing. even saying nothing
over and over absently to itself

Tracy K. Smith

#17. Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Max Weber

#18. I paused, tensing for a wave of conditioning, so used to obeying all my life. Nothing. Heavenly nothing. Blessed fucking nothing.

Pepper Winters

#19. I find it so strange that I throw people off-center.

Ving Rhames

#20. I'd not really ever expected to play anything like 'Hamlet.' I hadn't seen myself as a natural Hamlet, whatever a natural Hamlet is, and I quickly realised there is no such thing.

Rory Kinnear

#21. You have such a perfect dick," she says as I lean back and close my eyes, my body tensing as I try to restrain myself. "I could write a song about it.

Karina Halle

#22. The trick to saying the word cock, is to do it like you have one in your mouth.

Geoffrey Knight