Nerves Quotes - Page 5

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

  Christopher Morley

  Beauty, Faith, Fall

  Christopher Morley, Ken Kalfus, Walter Jack Duncan (1990). “Christopher Morley's Philadelphia”, p.38, Fordham Univ Press

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• I couldn’t sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.

  Mordechai Vanunu

  Sleep, Years, Two

  Interview with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.

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• I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Funny, Money, Politics

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• Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

  Howard Thurman

  Mean, Commitment, Yield

  Howard Thurman (1963). “Disciplines of the spirit”, Friends United Pr

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• It should stimulate the mind as well as the appetite. The well made cocktail is one of the most gracious of drinks. It pleases the senses. The shared delight of those who partake in common of this refreshing nectar breaks the ice of formal reserve. Taut nerves relax, taut muscles relax, tired eyes brighten, tongues loosen, friendships deepen, the whole world becomes a better place in which to live.

  David A. Embury

  Eye, Tired, Ice

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• Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve.

  Rodney Crowell

  Peace, Men, Special

  Song: Time to Go Inward, Album: Fate's Right Hand, 2003

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• It was always exciting, but it was also always dangerous. And fear takes a toll finally: when you live in danger from moment to moment, the constant tension becomes very wearying. Every step I took on the roads of Gelderland was nerve-wracking, because I was secretly carrying the very material that could turn out to be my own death warrant.

  Diet Eman

  Steps, Tolls, Moments

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• The only master that exists, the only one that's true and believable is your own conscience. To find it you have to stand in silence-alone and in silence-you have to stand on the naked earth, naked yourself and with nothing around you, as if you were already dead. You don't hear anything at first; the only thing you feel is terror, but then you begin to hear a voice, away in the background, far off; it's a calm voice, and maybe its banality gets on your nerves to begin with.

  Susanna Tamaro

  Voice, Silence, Naked

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• Strain every nerve to gain your point.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Gains, Strain

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• Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially. When they are growing up, they are nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly) any invasion of their privacy. Oh, sure, they'll make mistakes - but that's their business, not yours. (You made your own mistakes, did you not?)

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sex, Business, Growing Up

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.237, Penguin

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• Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.

  Horace Mann

  Pain, Thrill, Pleasure

  Horace Mann (1859). “Lectures on Various Subjects”, p.43

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• Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient kind, the nerve of a bomb disposal officer.

  Eamon Dunphy

  Soccer, Football, Media

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• 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.

  Stefan Zweig

  Play, Listening, Passionate

  Stefan Zweig (1955). “Stories and Legends”

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• Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Identity, Self Knowledge

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.510, Delphi Classics

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• Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it.

  Stefan Zweig

  Encounters, Add, Rakes

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

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• When panting sighs the bosom fill,
  And hands by chance united thrill
  At once with one delicious pain
  The pulses and the nerves of twain;
  When eyes that erst could meet with ease,
  Do seek, yet, seeking, shyly shun
  Ecstatic conscious unison, -
  The sure beginnings, say, be these
  Prelusive to the strain of love
  Which angels sing in heaven above?

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Pain, Angel, Eye

  "Love and Reason". Poem by Arthur Hugh Clough, 1844.

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

  Cameron Esposito

  Running, Yoga, Rocks

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• The brave man is intelligent; he faces danger because he understands it and is prepared to meet it. The drunkard who runs, in the delirium of intoxication, into a burning house is not brave; he is only stupid. But the clear-eyed hero who makes his way, with every sense alert and every nerve strung, into the hell of flames to rescue some little child, proves his courage.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Running, Courage, Children

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.89, Wildside Press LLC

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

  Len Goodman

  People, Please, Bloody

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• 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.

  Florence King

  Children, Used, Known

  Florence King (1990). “Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady”, p.59, Macmillan

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• The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.

  George Henry Borrow

  Philosophy, Men, People

  George Henry Borrow (1851). “Lavengro: The Scholar--the Gypsy--the Priest”, p.136

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

  Ralph Ellison

  Solitude, Unseen, Sometimes

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.28, Vintage

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• 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.

  Gordon Gee

  College, President, Skins

  "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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

  Thia Megia

  Energy, Wipe, Crowds

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• A 3-foot putt can be more nerve-racking than a 9-foot putt because a 3-foot putt you should be getting in. A 9-footer, there's a chance it won't go in.

  Lydia Ko

  Feet, Chance, Should

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