Nerve Quotes
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Nerve Quotes & Sayings
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Your nerve endingsI know their plot
To attack
My never endings
Until we fall asleep
In each other's arms — Iain S. Thomas
The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it.
— Karen Marie Moning
Lots of small business men have been contacting me to say they wish they had the nerve to say what I said.
— David A. Siegel
What is real, if you have decided to live in the dimension of space and time, is muscle and nerve.
— Alan W. Watts
Some people would always have the nerve, that you're glad you dont have in your tooth.
— Nikhil Sharda
Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.
— Itzhak Perlman
The riding of young horses is an excellent nerve tonic.
— Geoffrey Brooke
Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve.
— Rodney Crowell
Coach Lombardi had the nerve to draft me number oneAnd I said I have to repay this man for having the nerve to draft me number one.
— Herb Adderley
It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.
— John Steinbeck
If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you can imagine.
— Debi Thomas
The sight of a pretty woman had an airborne chemical effect, like nerve gas. It relaxed the rubber band around his wallet.
— A.J. Liebling
Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter
— Robert Greene
The whole bullying issue has really struck a nerve with me. It affects so many different types of people at a vital time in their lives.
— Kenny Wormald
By mobilizing our thoughts and practicing new ways of thinking, we can reshape our nerve cells and change the way our brains work.
— Dalai Lama XIV
She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.
— Don Cornelius
A cat is witty, he has nerve, he knows how to do precisely the right thing at the right moment.
— Henri Poincare
It is nerve-wracking watching my kids' games.
— Michael Jordan
Why is it that we can better bear to part in spirit than in body, and while we have the fortitude to act farewell, have not the nerve to say it?
— Charles Dickens
'Thelma & Louise' really hit a nerve, and I loved that movie.
— Richard LaGravenese
I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.
— John Henrik Clarke
It's always a little nerve-wracking to do a love scene, more than anything because it's just awkward.
— Annie Parisse
Our hearts beat so loud the neighbours think we're fucking when I'm just trying to find the nerve to touch your face.
— Andrea Gibson
Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Depression, in its insidious way, acts as a degenerative disease, harming nerve cells. Like
— Peter D. Kramer
It was a failure of pedagogical nerve, she reminded herself, to give up on a student.
— Paul Russell
Like opium, nerve annihilation stretches up my veins to pump incinerating anguish through my body.
— Poppet
It. I don't mean to poke the bear, but I've got one nerve left, and Maddox is dry-humping it. So, could you all move it along?
— Jamie McGuire
Satiated with the great purposelessness of it, we gently belched nerve gases into the next generation
— Dambudzo Marechera
the illusion of the artistic rendering of a nerve stimulus into images is, if not the mother, then at least the grandmother of every concept. In
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't have nerve enough to commit suicide," she said, "so I might as well do anything anybody says - in the service of mankind." ***
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time.
— Shania Twain
This is what I think: If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write it.
— Jerry Stahl
Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.
— Frank McCourt
It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Anything can be a weapon, if the man or woman who holds it has the nerve and will to make it so.
— Robert Jordan
Ann's got to take her nerve by the horns.
— Virginia Wade
See with the eyes of love, / Hear with the ears of love / Work with the hands of love, / Think thoughts of love / Feel love in every nerve.
— Sathya Sai Baba
He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord.
— Charles Scott Sherrington
All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.
— Steve Coogan
I've been in a talent show, yeah. They are terrifying. The most nerve-wracking experience of your life, I'd say.
— David Walton
The stupid boy has the nerve to laugh. I sit up and punch him in the gut. Stupid boy ain't laughing now. Now he's too busy grunting in pain.
— April Brookshire
I think the first couple of times you do make-out scenes, you psych yourself out and it's really nerve racking.
— Hilarie Burton
Yes, the words of the Mother can be heard as clearly as we hear one another. But one requires a fine nerve to hear Mother's words.
— Swami Vivekananda
At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed.
— Maile Meloy
Immortals are constrained by ancient rules. But a hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.-Chiron — Rick Riordan
I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never.
— Evel Knievel
I could feel the tension radiate from my solar plexus and jangle along the nerve circuitry. It had nothing to do with the weather.
— Robert B. Parker
In saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity.
— Gelsey Kirkland
It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
— Nancy Gibbs
Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent.
— George W. Bush
Strain every nerve to gain your point.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Fuckin' my man in my bed," he said over Gabriel's shoulder. "You got some goddamn nerve, girl.
— Cara McKenna
I usually have a drink before a carpet because I find them really nerve-racking. Usually a tequila. An upper!
— Bella Heathcote
What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve.
— Charles Frazier
People have incredible nerve to do terrible things, but never actually admit to them.
— Henry Mosquera
Changes in my personal life are nerve-racking for me.
— Donny Deutsch
I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies
— Joy Harjo
I had a tumor in my left eye which killed the optic nerve, but it's my real eye. I just cannot see out of it.
— Sandy Duncan
I feel like, like pudding," Iggy groaned. "Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain.
— James Patterson
He had the nerve not to drink in a University where you proved your manhood by being drunk most of your first year.
— John Le Carre
We have the power, knowledge, and equipment to build a world beyond our wonder. Only loss of nerve can defeat us.
— James Dillet Freeman
You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.
— Michael Morpurgo
It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
So, you're worried that a pink dragon will fly over the concent and fart nerve gas on us?
— Neal Stephenson
While a kind man was working up the nerve to ask me on a date, I was working up the nerve to kill him with my bare hands
— Amy McAuley
In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it's really uncomfortable for a lot of people.
— Shirley Manson
Honestly, I thought I was going to be a kite forever, suffocating inside a little feathery prison. And he had the nerve to make fun!
— Rick Riordan
Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding ... Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve.
— Wyndham Lewis
Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.
— Henry David Thoreau
Some people lose their nerve for riding or skiing or driving; well, I've lost my nerve for life.
— Sophie Kinsella
I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
— Zora Neale Hurston
If people don't like you, it doesn't matter how much uniqueness, nerve or talent you have!
— Manila Luzon
That one has more brass than an orchestra and more nerve than a sore tooth. So I sincerely doubt I make her nervous.
— Anne Bishop
He felt as though his capacity for loving had been blunted, the nerve endings severed. He
— Robert Galbraith
