Tense Quotations

I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel pressed and tense almost every day of my life about something or other. And I think it's the one thing, as I look into people's eyes, that I think I share with almost everybody.

Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense.

Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.

My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.

When it's wet, you're much more tense on the steering wheel, you have to dance with the throttle and the brakes more. Each lap is a different scenario, so you're really on the edge of your nerves. One mistake could cost you the entire race.

Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are rooted in the future or the present tense as much as in the past. And home, we know, is not just the place where you happen to be born. It's the place where you become yourself.

I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.

It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

I don't feel too much pressure. The way I look at it is, I'm playing hockey. I don't add that pressure on myself, if I do that I tense up. I just go out there and play.

I don't know that he ever lifted a weight in his life before he got to college. He had developed things naturally: when to strike a blow, when to tense his body up. He was just relentless when it came to blocking.

McClellan (4-0) threw a great game. He settled down and got us out of a couple of tense innings.

Since this is a tournament held in Japan, of course I'd liketo win it, be seen in a good light and see my stock go up, ... But it's important to play onegame at a time and not get tense like I did today.

I have an odd theory on happiness, and it bothers people. My general theory is that happiness is a reward for an animal doing what it should be doing. So if a horse runs, it feels happy. Or if you are too thin, you can't be happy, because evolution wants you to be tense and anxious, trying to wake up in the morning looking for food.

held in a tense but not hostile environment.

given what happened last week, and the tense situation we find ourselves in.

I am very sorry and I deeply regret my actions on Sunday. In the heat of a tense game, I lost my head and made a bad decision. I'm not making excuses for my actions and I take full responsibility for what I did. I want to take this opportunity to apologize to Loren Stokes, who I have great respect for. I also want to say I'm sorry to Hofstra University's players, coaches and fans. They played a terrific game and that should not be overshadowed by what I did.

He returned every ball I served, ... Finally, I got more tense and more tense. Then I was scared.

We looked like we lacked confidence and we were tense taking the shots.

I always kind of aim with the action stuff to make it feel like, as an audience member, you're experiencing what the people are experiencing. As soon as you go into slow-mo or repeated edits, shooting it like it's a stunt, it takes it out of that reality. The more real you make that stuff, the more tense it will be.

He does seem a little more relaxed. He probably hasn't been as tense as I've seen him in the car before but no real significant change. He's a very competitive person. When things aren't going right he doesn't mind letting you know it and that's good. If we can't identify problems we certainly can't work on fixing them, so I think everything has gone really well.

He gave me all I could handle. There were some tense moments, but I made it through and jumped on off. I hardly got dirty.

We train our whole lives for this. It gets tense around here.

Joe was a consensus maker. I think the thing with Joe that I remember more than anything is he could walk into an environment that was somewhat tense and had the ability to deal with it. He also had the ability to take charge.

My situation at Chelsea became tense because I was regularly dropped from the team without apparent reason.

Such use of this report will have big, serious repercussions on the already tense situation which our region goes through, at a time we are more in need to have objective and constructive positions that would help the countries of the region to achieve stability,

Presevo is about 90 percent ethnic Albanian -- it is a very tense place, I have been there myself -- it lies in a strategic valley,

Patients find respect and a comfort level here. The majority of people who come here really struggle with just life. Imagine what it's like to be tense all the time worrying about everything constantly.

I was a little tense to go out there and get it. But now I'm relaxed and confident.

I think when you score first, especially if you do it early, it has an adverse effect because players can say, 'job done'. We knew that was far from the case. At half-time we felt we needed the players to be focused because we had been poor in the first half. We had to wake them up and we definitely started the second half better. We had enough quality in the two goals to do that, although it was a very tense end to the game.

I think there's some anxiety, but I don't think it's unhealthy. More people make it a little more tense at times, but I think it benefits the viewer. Getting on the air depends on how good your story is.

I was born too late to experience Apollo 11, though I do trek to Dad's house every time there's some space event. There's something awesome about crossing your fingers and watching a tense Mission Control room do their thing.

I was too tense against Nye, and I wanted to go out there today and be relaxed.

I think we have a reputation of being a really good NCAA tournament team. There does seem to be a little more of an edge to our game, a little more of a focus. I don't think we get up tight. I see teams that get very, very tentative and tense at tournament time and I don't see us being like that generally. I think our approach as a coaching staff is pretty laid back. We want to reward our kids for a great season.

We were so tense . . . I don't think we ever did relax and get in the flow of Canyon View basketball. But at the same time we did the things that you have to do be successful ? you guard, you rebound, you're unselfish and you make free throws going down the wire.

The president exhibited mature and responsible leadership throughout this tense situation.

Well, maybe the first few games I was a little bit tense, but then I started to play my game so I was more relaxed. I don't think I was tense at all.

We don't have a real deadline (for possible NATO bombing) but things are going to get very tense in the next few days.

We didn't execute a lot down the stretch as far as foul shots, and the more you miss the more tense you get. It was a combination of missed free throws and not getting stops down the stretch that allowed them to get as close as they did.

We had to play our best to beat Colgate. When we did not play our best, Colgate made us pay. We learned that we need to play the full 60 minutes. But we have played in tense games all year, so I feel that our players have the necessary experience.

When it's tense during practice, I tend to lighten up the mood a bit.

We're dealing with somebody that's demonstrated he's very violent, ... It's a very tense situation.

Well we had a better shooting percentage than we had last night. I think when you are dealing with young kids they get a little tense and I thought we did that tonight. We played a little more relaxed tonight than we did last night.

Politics is history in the present tense.

I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time....

We had at least six top chances in the first half alone. If we had made some of them, this match would never had been so tense or dramatic.

We dispersed the protestors who ransacked the office of the deputy superintendent of police. The situation is tense and curfew is being strictly enforced in the town.

We were a little tense in the first half, which I hadn't been expecting, but we were more decisive after the break.

Duffy said if he was going to do the job ? intimidate whoever it was hanging out in front of my house ? Duffy didn't want any connection with me in case there was any trouble with the police, ... He said, 'Nothing can revert back to you if I have to get a little tense with somebody.'

Everyone was tense going in. Chesapeake is a good team, and when they got those runs, it got to us a little and we got more tense.

I used to be tense or nervous before heats. But I've learned to get rid of the negative stuff and just stay relaxed and positive - and it seems to be working for me.

The win in the first-set tiebreaker predetermined the result of the match. Since then, the game was tense but we controlled it.

The sheer density of advertising creates a psychic mass, an overlay that can sometimes be very tense or aggressive. As a citizen, you have to participate in that every day. You have to walk by until it's changed.

The situation is tense at the moment, but there is a new opportunity and we are here to provide inspection which is credible.

It was very exciting at the end, it was a tense game,

You have to tense every muscle in your body so your hands really stick to that wall.

We had a great first period. I'm not sure what happened in that second period. We took some penalties, and their power play was clicking. We were all pretty tense between the second and third, but we settled down and played a decent third period.

To begin with, we were tight. We played real tense and timid today. They got up early on us, 3-0, before taking the 5-1 lead after one. We then played outstanding defense in the second period, but we weren't able to score offensively.

We have dispersed the protestors who ransacked the office of the deputy superintendent of police. The situation is tense and curfew is being strictly enforced in the town.

Being an emergency manager and getting a call from the National Hurricane Center director on a cell phone at night is one of the most tense experiences you could ever go through. He just wanted to give me a heads up.

Stressful stuff isn't it? I got off to a horrendous start; I was very tense in the first few sets.

The OIC is perfectly within its rights to raise and talk about the Kashmir dispute, which is at the center of decades of tense ties between Pakistan and India.

The mood was tense and increasingly dark. We were fearful of losing control of the company. It could have been snapped up on the cheap.

Despite the tense security situation in Iraq, it is paramount that all those willing to help establish democracy in Iraq be mindful of the right of the media to exercise their profession freely,

As long as you beat Morehouse, it would make your season. The week we played Morehouse, oh man, it was real tense and focused in practice. You never wanted to be the one that had to go the entire year hearing about losing to Morehouse.

BA is entering what we feel will be a tense six months for industrial relations as the pension fund deficit and the three-year wage deal come up for negotiation with the unions.

Tension is all about, 'Why is this taking so long?' The interesting thing about that is that it's also the tension of comedy. The tension of drama and comedy is similar, and that's why usually you can get a big laugh in a really tense moment because people need that release.

You're a little more relaxed on Thursday. Once you get closer to the end, if you have a chance to win you tense up a little bit.

In many places where you have these kinds of people - very strong, very confident people - the atmosphere is frenetic and tense and unpleasant.

The natives are getting restless. It's a tense situation.

I'm sure it will a very tense game and my Irish friends will perhaps not be my friends for 80 minutes.

I had an older brother, an older sister and a younger brother, and though I look back fondly on my childhood, I think that when you've got four siblings sharing the same resources and a single kids' bathroom, it's going to get a little tense at times.

If you do fall once, the tendency is you have a fear of falling. Your body gets tense and you're really increasing your chances of falling by being more careful.

Everybody should kind of calm down. Michael and his family are calm. In times like these, people are going to be a bit tense and stressed. I am going to appeal to everybody to have a level head.

It's really become a waiting game. Slowly, slowly you do become more tense as you try to anticipate what will happen or what might happen.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense

The officers acted expertly acted with professionalism in a tense situation.

Concerns over a possible straining in already tense relations across the Taiwan Strait remained a drag on the market.

So-called winter training exercises by security forces, held in the midst of an already very tense situation, intimidate the local population and drive civilians out of their homes.

It was just a tense situation, just a spur of the moment thing that shouldn't have happened.

They can still go to me in the fourth quarter. It's just something I've got to keep working on. That's one of the areas I've got to gain more confidence in. Guys from other teams have told me they see that I'm too tense when I'm shooting free throws, when I'm concentrating so much instead of just letting it flow.

I just forced myself to relax today. I've been very tense up at the plate.

I just forced myself to relax today. I've been very tense up at the plate. A lot of guys will tell you when you're going bad to just slow the game down a little bit.

I just go up to bat and try to stay relaxed, not get tense and swing.

I don't think I realized how big the Final Four was. I just kind of assumed that I would get here every year because that's just all I knew. I was really tense and really nervous in the game because I didn't feel like I had full control of things. I was just a freshman, and I didn't know what I was doing in a way.

Things got tense for us in the last inning but when the game was on the line the defense came through. This was a great growing experience for this team.

They just came straight in and took over. They told us to keep our heads down, there was a man with a gun across the road. It was a very tense situation.

I wanted to beat them pretty bad. It was a pretty tense game with all the fans.

It was a pretty tense game. Fortunately, we're 1-0 right now. They battled us. It shows you that the rest of the world has caught up to the U.S. in baseball.

It's hard to convey to people how tense these situations can be.

It's definitely a lot different from earlier in spring training or even last year. Just trusting yourself and not being all tense out there and being loose and limber, that's the remedy I went through the last couple days. Just be that effortless, fluid guy you've always been. That's what I try to concentrate on. It loosens me up and things happen for the better.

Tense and nervous are not the words, though they are the words

A great free joy surges through me when I work... with tense slashes and a few thrusts the beautiful white fields receive their color and the work is finished in a few minutes.

The first set was a bit tough because I hadn't played a match for six months. You are unable to decide where you have to move, when you have to go to the net, whether to put pressure or stay back. I was a bit lost and tense because I knew that I had a chance.

You can't play soccer like this. It's unbelievable. The team was very tense having to play without fans. It's really absurd.

I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.

It is well known that the tense systems of French, English and German teem with logical inconsistencies as they are actually used.

I told myself again and again that feeling tense of the game could only do bad to my match and I never want to repeat the world championships defeat, ... The only secret for my victory today is just to keep my mind well-balanced.

It's not an easy course at all. There are all kinds of bumps, traffic circles and hard corners that will make it a tense race, ... The climbs are harder than people think and it's not sure it will all just come down to a sprint.

It's not an ideal situation but we need to to stay calm. We can't allow ourselves to be influenced by this tense atmosphere.