Quotes about Nerves

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. Votes: 4

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. Votes: 4

Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch. Votes: 4

Nerves and butterflies are fine - they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's the trick. Votes: 4

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it. Votes: 4

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. Votes: 4

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. Votes: 4

Nerves just mean that you care. Votes: 3

Nerves are good. They keep you alive. Votes: 3

Nerves are normal. You can't be cured from them unless you're a machine. Votes: 3

Nerves are natural, it means you're ready to face a challenge and perform. Votes: 3

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. Votes: 3

Test of Metal: Will of Iron, Nerves of Steel, Heart of Gold, Balls of Brass. Votes: 3

Nerves can be useful, as they sharpen you up, make you determined to try your hardest and do your best. Votes: 3

Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried. Votes: 3

Nerves, stress and the pressure to perform are a part of life. You don't have to conquer these feelings; just learn to live with them. Votes: 3

I don't care what the situation was, how high the stakes were - the bases could be loaded and the pennant riding on every pitch, it never bothered Whitey. He pitched his game. Cool. Craft. Nerves of steel. Votes: 3

Nerves," Mik told Karou."Bad?""Terrible." Stepping up behind Zuzana, he bent down to enfold her in a spoon-hugFerociously, dreadfully awful. She's unbearable. You take her. I've had enough."Zuzana batted at him, then squealed as he buried his face in the curve of her throat and made exaggerated kissing noises." Votes: 3

You get steely nerves playing poker. Votes: 2

Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves. Votes: 2

Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. Votes: 2

Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves. Votes: 2

I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears. Votes: 2

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over. Votes: 2

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves. Votes: 2

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. Votes: 2

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence. Votes: 2

I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else. Votes: 2

There's always a bit of nerves that come with expectations and new situations. Votes: 2

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom. Votes: 2

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. Votes: 2

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. Votes: 2

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. Votes: 2

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. Votes: 2

I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down. Votes: 2

I definitely wanted this win today and I don't want anybody to talk about my nerves anymore. Votes: 2

I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games. Votes: 2

Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman gets on my nerves.' Votes: 2

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. Votes: 2

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect. Votes: 2

I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot. Votes: 2

The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves. Votes: 2

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines. Votes: 2

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy. Votes: 2

Personally, I think I am much calmer under incredibly stressful situations, and I've learned to deal with pressure and nerves, which is key to being a performer of any caliber. Votes: 2

I always have a football handy at home, and I'll play with it. Sometimes it'll get on my wife's nerves. But the moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy. Votes: 2

In the case of the stomach, however, the nerves of the glandular cells were always severed when constructing an artificially isolated pouch and this, naturally, affected the normal work of the stomach. Votes: 2

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty. Votes: 2

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again. Votes: 2

I have been on the same dose of anti-depressants for 15 years, and my nerves still go up and down in cycles; but my nerves are cycling at a lower level than they were before. Votes: 2

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory. Votes: 2

Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have. Votes: 2

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. Votes: 2

I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look. Votes: 2

However spontaneous I hope a photograph will look, I always put a lot of thought into how I can make it happen. The very best pictures are the most relaxed, so a lot of fussing around technically can completely break the spell, and everyone freezes up with nerves. Votes: 2

Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads. Votes: 2

Happiness means quiet nerves. Votes: 0

Being unprepared heightens nerves. Votes: 0

My main weakness is nerves. Votes: 0

My nerves could use a drink. Votes: 0

Recycle those nerves and make them adreneline. Votes: 0

The airman must possess absolutely untroubled nerves. Votes: 0

I don't have principles. I have nerves. Votes: 0

One must read poetry with one's nerves. Votes: 0

Nothing is harder on the nerves than hope. Votes: 0

I have no nerves, no emotion, no pressure. Votes: 0

It takes nerves of steel to stay neurotic. Votes: 0

If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport. Votes: 0

I suffer a lot with nerves and stage fright. Votes: 0

You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain. Votes: 0

All of your quotes are getting on my nerves. Votes: 0

Let's hope his nerves will run through his veins. Votes: 0

Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery. Votes: 0

Stop being so" optimistic. It's getting on my nerves. Votes: 0

Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves. Votes: 0

The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves. Votes: 0

I don't even like money. It just quiets my nerves. Votes: 0

I think it's healthy to be insecure, to have nerves. Votes: 0

Forgive me. I can no longer live with my nerves. Votes: 0

Once the fifth set comes, it's a matter of nerves. Votes: 0

I don't like money very much, but it calms my nerves. Votes: 0

Everybody just gets on my nerves after like, 10 minutes, you know. Votes: 0

Every athlete acquires routines as a way to help control nerves. Votes: 0

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves. Votes: 0

Nothing is more trying than nerves to people who have none. Votes: 0

With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy. Votes: 0

Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves. Votes: 0

A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves. Votes: 0

My nerves will come when I have to take off my top. Votes: 0

The bigger the crowd the better really! The noise calms your nerves. Votes: 0

Alcohol is perfect for me to curb the nerves a little bit. Votes: 0

Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves. Votes: 0

New York is too strenuous for me; it gets on my nerves. Votes: 0

Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces. Votes: 0

The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed. Votes: 0

To control your nerves, you must have a positive thought in your mind. Votes: 0

The reason fat people are happy is that the nerves are well protected. Votes: 0

I just grate on my own nerves. I don't like to watch me. Votes: 0

I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends. Votes: 0

There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves. Votes: 0

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. Votes: 0

Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away. Votes: 0

I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man! Votes: 0

You could at least complain," say. "I adore complaining. It calms the nerves. Votes: 0

Putting affects the nerves more than anything. I would actually get nauseated over three-footers. Votes: 0

My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt. Votes: 0

There's a lot of nerves. It all goes away though once they say "fight". Votes: 0

There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump. Votes: 0

My toes are all squished. During an operation, they had to take nerves out. Votes: 0

They say nerves heal real slowly. Lots of things about us heal real slowly. Votes: 0

Taking drugs to overcome nerves is the thin edge of the wedge going in there. Votes: 0

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves Votes: 0

Fatigue roughens up the edges of your nerves; it exposes your fears and your weaknesses. Votes: 0

Winter dawn is the color of metal, The trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves. Votes: 0

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men. Votes: 0

Inject laughter into tense situations to save the day; laughter calms tempers and soothes jangled nerves. Votes: 0

The nerves are good... they keep you on point and they keep you not getting overconfident. Votes: 0

I only drink to steady my nerves... sometimes I'm so steady I don't move for months. Votes: 0

I love energy and people; gosh I love people even when they got on my nerves. Votes: 0

I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied. Votes: 0

Training can get on a man's nerves. There is no profit or use in denying it. Votes: 0

I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire. Votes: 0

A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves. Votes: 0

I tend to be very relaxed on stage, but the nerves have to come out somehow. Votes: 0

It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves. Votes: 0

I always try to be optimistic, but not to the point where I'm getting on people's nerves. Votes: 0

Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas. Votes: 0

Preparedness for a game that usually lasts four-five hours requires good physical condition and also steady nerves. Votes: 0

I'll try and get through as much as my voice and nerves and knees will let me. Votes: 0

Let brisker youths their active nerves prepare Fit their light silken wings and skim the buxom air. Votes: 0

The nerves are good because that keeps you from relaxing too much and getting caught off guard. Votes: 0

There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm... Votes: 0

It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. Votes: 0

Run. Yoga. Hike. Generally try to outpace the nerves. If that doesn't work, one Jack on the rocks. Votes: 0

Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit. Votes: 0

But when I got angry, my nerves sought an outlet, and my mouth didn't always guard the gates. Votes: 0

Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. Votes: 0

I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves. Votes: 0

I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves. Votes: 0

I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy. Votes: 0

Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman gets on my nerves. Votes: 0

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening. Votes: 0

but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering. Votes: 0

Love's scary, and sometimes it's transient. But it's worth the risks and the nerves. It's even worth the pain. Votes: 0

Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision. Votes: 0

Once you stop drinking and smoking and stuff, it really gets on your nerves, all that nonsense going on. Votes: 0

It was scary how much she sounded like me sometimes. Maybe that's why she totally got on my nerves Votes: 0

Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint. Votes: 0

Your brain is a forest,And the nerves are trees.When the branches touch,Snaps jumps between the leaves. Votes: 0

Your family, even though you love them, they can get on your nerves. You spend so much time together. Votes: 0

Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents - that is the key to fashion leadership. Votes: 0

Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected. Votes: 0

Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation. Votes: 0

If you don't have nerves and a little trepidation about any new project, then I don't think you're really alive. Votes: 0

The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing. Votes: 0

It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness Votes: 0

Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity. Votes: 0

Augusta National is a young man's golf course, and you really need a young man's nerves to play on it. Votes: 0

I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think. Votes: 0

He was still stroking the inside of her wrist, his touch doing odd delicious things to her skin and nerves. Votes: 0

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals. Votes: 0

Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap. Votes: 0

I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life. Votes: 0

When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed. Votes: 0

I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash. Votes: 0

Later in life, suddenly, if you're an outsider, it's something to be celebrated, I think, rather than getting on people's nerves. Votes: 0

I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself. Votes: 0

There are only two types of player-those who keep their nerves under control and win championships, and those who do not. Votes: 0

I had a turnover and three missed shots down the stretch. I just have to make sure I calm my nerves. Votes: 0

I created a flag from the sport's dignity. I oversee the name of my family with affection, steady nerves and blood. Votes: 0

My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine. Votes: 0

I'm so excited that my stomach is in a jiggle-jaggle of nerves. There they go again. Jiggle. Jaggle. I'm a mess. Votes: 0

It sometimes takes days, even weeks, before a dog's nerves tire. In the case of terriers it can run into months. Votes: 0

San: You all right? Virt: I think i crapped myself a little Sam: Just a little? you've got nerves of steel. Votes: 0

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you. Votes: 0

I did Shakespeare in college and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men. Votes: 0

Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn't able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright. Votes: 0

We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling. Votes: 0

The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet. Votes: 0

The mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces. Votes: 0

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. Votes: 0

I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can't think if I'm wrong I'll blow $30,000. Votes: 0

That's the way I like it because there's no time to have nerves about it. You just run out and do it. Votes: 0

Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasnt able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright. Votes: 0

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night. Votes: 0

You always have nerves. And it's important to respect your nerves and your doubts. And then you have to ultimately overcome them. Votes: 0

When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work. Votes: 0

All the body's systems and processes - your nerves, your emotions - take instruction from what is going on with your breath. Votes: 0

I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent. Votes: 0

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are! Votes: 0

Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important. Votes: 0

War makes extremely heavy demands on the soldier's strength and nerves. For this reason, make heavy demands on your men in peacetime exercises. Votes: 0

I am a central European with an English education and a deplorable tendency to constant self-analysis. I am irritable and have weak nerves. Votes: 0

That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures. Votes: 0

A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble. Votes: 0

You can do this. You are invincible; nothing can rattle you. You have nerves of steel; you are a confident, strong woman; you-" Votes: 0

When a skater steps on the ice to compete, the nerves, the tension, and sheer suspense of that moment make for great drama. Votes: 0

I think I am worthwhile just because I have optical nerves and can try to put down what they perceive. What a fool! Votes: 0

Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are. Votes: 0

I really feel vulnerable when I don't have the answer to something. When I feel lack of control, my nerves really kick in. Votes: 0

It is true that there is nothing like a blaze in the hearth to soothe the nerves and restore order to a house. Votes: 0

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? Votes: 0

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?. Votes: 0

Do not be perturbed with by an ill-bred person; in most cases the one who is unsociable has a liver complaint and bad nerves. Votes: 0

If I was a Mayor, I would sort the traffic out and that includes public transport. The traffic jams really get on my nerves. Votes: 0

The trick is to smoke a cigarette to calm your nerves and then take a big swig of strong liquor to tone your muscles. Votes: 0

We will pursue them until they lose their nerves... Now that they have indulged in their evil and crimes, they will suffer a defeat. Votes: 0

I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations without panicking. Votes: 0

Real people are made out of a whole lot of things-flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words. Votes: 0

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do. Votes: 0

No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw. Votes: 0

I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes. Votes: 0

We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves. Votes: 0

God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves. Votes: 0

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received. Votes: 0

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves. Votes: 0

Back of the sound broods the silence, back of the gift stands the giving; Back of the hand that receives thrill the sensitive nerves of receiving. Votes: 0

Ever feel like killing somebody just to see if you could get away with it? Sure, you have. Everybody has little things that get on their nerves. Votes: 0

I am very emotionally affected by sound. Sounds are the inexplicable... There is a sound you hear in your head, it's your nerves, or your blood running. Votes: 0

I think I opened up an area with Astral Weeks that hit a lot of peoples' nerves. But you can't really say that they're my favorite songs. Votes: 0

Human sacrifice is much in vogue right now. The Republican right thinks that people who get on its nerves, especially women, should be sent to the stake. . . Votes: 0

It's dangerous to get calm. You need some nerves to work from, it's good energy. It's not good to have no nerves. You'd fall asleep on stage. Votes: 0

Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean we have to be larger than life. Worse, I've seen actors acting off the sets too. Votes: 0

There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself. Votes: 0

No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day. Votes: 0

American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it. Votes: 0

The most striking features of the correctly bred German Shepherds are firmness of nerves, attentiveness, unshockability, tractability, watchfulness, reliability and incorruptibility together with courage, fighting tenacity and hardness. Votes: 0

If, however, there is to be a war of nerves let us make sure our nerves are strong and are fortified by the deepest convictions of our hearts. Votes: 0

Frog has no nerves. Frog is as old as a cockroach. Frog is my father's genitals. Frog is a malformed doorknob. Frog is a soft bag of green. Votes: 0

When you've got a date on your calendar saying that you will be putting this in front of people in four weeks, that will get your nerves good, yeah. Votes: 0

Having nerves and feeling the pressure just gets you focused and gets your concentration level where it needs to be. I harness that nervous energy into a positive way. Votes: 0

There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin. Votes: 0

I love getting dressed up for red carpet events and having my hair and makeup done professionally - that definitely helps with nerves of going down the red carpet. Votes: 0

I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish. Votes: 0

A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man. Votes: 0

Those who say there's nothing like a nice cup of tea for calming the nerves never had *real* tea. It's like a syringe of adrenaline straight to the heart! Votes: 0

It gets on my nerves when women take too much time on makeup. You would think after a lifetime they would have the process down to less than 45 minutes! Votes: 0

I live in Sheffield, and most auditions are in London, meaning I'm normally a bag of nerves on the train to London because you have all that time to think. Votes: 0

My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made. Votes: 0

I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale. Votes: 0

We love to chew the cud of a foregone vision; to collect the scattered rays of a brighter phantasm, or act over again, with firmer nerves, the sadder nocturnal tragedies. Votes: 0

Crazy to think that we're having surgery, we're trying to excise cancer, we don't know where the cancer is. We're trying to preserve nerves; we can't see where they are. Votes: 0

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. Votes: 0

Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas. Votes: 0

I don't think I have nerves of steel, far from it, but I can certainly stand up to things. I am not afraid to look suffering straight in the eyes. Votes: 0

For one who is having no personal experience, the passionate disquiet of others is at any rate a titillation of the nerves, like seeing a play or listening to music. Votes: 0

I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart. Votes: 0

Oh, I don't know. That digression business got on my nerves. I don't know. The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses. It's more interesting and all. Votes: 0

And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note. Votes: 0

You can always tell when the relationship is over. Little things start getting on your nerves, 'Would you please stop that! That breathing in and out, it's so repetitious.' Votes: 0

We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves Votes: 0

You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain, too much love drives a man insane. You broke my will, but what a thrill. Goodness gracious, great balls of fire. Votes: 0

Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity. Votes: 0

Pressure on nerves causes irriatation and tension with deranged functions as a result. Why not release the pressure? Why not adjust the cause instead of treating the effects? Why not? Votes: 0

Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice. Votes: 0

Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding Votes: 0

What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble. Votes: 0

I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the most habitual extemporaneous speaker that I have ever known. Votes: 0

In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master before whom to grovel. Votes: 0

To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain. Votes: 0

Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed. Votes: 0

A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous". Votes: 0

When someone stays with you and they're not your guest, even when they are your guest they get on your nerves. When people visit for long periods of time, that just happens. Votes: 0

To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism. Votes: 0

Linda's presentation of the 'facts' had been so gruesome that the children left Alconleigh howling dismally, their nerves permanently impaired, their future chances of a sane and happy sex life much reduced." Votes: 0

In the case of the stomach, however, the nerves of the glandular cells were always severed when constructing an artificially isolated pouch and this, naturally, affected the normal work of the stomach." Votes: 0

Worpswede, Worpswede, I cannot get you out of my mind... Your magnificent pine trees! I call them my men--thick, gnarled, powerful, and tall--yet with the most delicate nerves and fibers in them. Votes: 0

Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them Votes: 0

I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love. Votes: 0

Ache my bones, flame my muscles, tingle my nerves, but you will never taint my beautiful mind & I will overcome this condition with the belief that I already have. - CRPS AWARENESS - Votes: 0

I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was just short. Votes: 0

To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism. Votes: 0

I don't have the slightest desire to speak over my dead brother. It gets on my nerves to always be compared with him. My brother was a magnificent person and an outstanding actor. Votes: 0

You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused. Votes: 0

That's a lovely experience when you make an audience laugh. Then the nerves go away for a bit. And sometimes you do things then that you've never done before that are really funny. Votes: 0

I think the rest of the world will think we're made, and indeed we are. We've turned out the greatest Prime Minister in the post war years simply because of short term nerves. Votes: 0

You have to control the nerves. I used to get so nervous that I couldn't eat, which wasn't really productive. Having goals and a plan is a good way of lessening the nerves. Votes: 0

I know that when you talk about something that may hurt someone, reactions are normal, and you are touching some nerves... But I don't do things because people always like what I do. Votes: 0

I'm not a big drinker. I don't really drink at all. But my dad and his pals will want to have a good swally because their nerves will be in some state, man! Votes: 0

Red stimulates and excites your nerves, pulse rate and blood circulation, and lends energy to your entire system. When you are fatigued, lethargic or sluggish for any reason, red has an energizing influence. Votes: 0

The movements of some more little red birds in the garden, like animated rosebuds, appeared unbearably jittery and thievish. It was as though the creatures were attached by sensitive wires to his nerves. Votes: 0

The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves. Votes: 0

I have this system. I torture my husband and everyone around me with my nerves and anxiety. Then, when I get on stage, the fear is gone. I've exhausted myself. It just dissipates. Votes: 0

Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause. Votes: 0

The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves. Votes: 0

Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams. Votes: 0

A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there. Votes: 0

I have one thing that counts, and that is my heart; it burns in my soul, it aches in my flesh, and it ignites my nerves: that is my love for the people and Peron. Votes: 0

This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our minds there is perhaps even more that grates on our nerves. Votes: 0

My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think. Votes: 0

Grace (talking about Sam): At the sight of him, my stomach slid down to my feet, a weird combination of relief, nerves, and anticipation all in one, a feeling that never seemed to go away. Votes: 0

Kissing just like she laughs: honest, heartfelt and heartful, she pulls me down as I lift her up , and the hum she gives when my tongue finds hers makes every one of my nerves fire. Votes: 0

I never really had stage nerves but I did have had trouble getting up to the right energy level. For a long time I drank. I drank up until 1982 and then I gave up alcohol. Votes: 0