Nerves Quotes - Page 23

• I don't ... like rhythm, assonance, all that stuff. You just go on your nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street with a knife you just run, you don't turn around and shout, 'Give it up! I was a track star for Mineola Prep.'

  Frank O'Hara

  Running, Stars, Knives

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• In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.

  Stefan Collini

  Humanity, Trying, May

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• Funny how things change when you got a liquor in ya:
  You're quicker with the tongue, givin' me rhythm now.
  Block the music and the people out to admire the love,
  The nerve of us...impervious to the entire club.
  And like marijuana shotguns, let's blow this joint,
  It's pointless to stay here, so let me anoint.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Block, Rap, Blow

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• A Johns Hopkins doctor says that 'we do not know why it is that the worriers die sooner than the non-worriers, but that is a fact.' But I, who am simple of mind, think I know we are inwardly constructed, in nerve and tissue and brain cell and soul, for faith and not for fear. God made us that way. Therefore, the need of faith is not something imposed on us dogmatically, but it is written in us intrinsically. We cannot live without it. To live by worry is to live against Reality.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Fear, Simple, Reality

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• The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Music, Song, Heart

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1404, Delphi Classics

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• When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

  Catherine of Genoa

  Peace, Moving, Meditation

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• 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

  People, Armor, Fitting

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• I don't even like money. It just quiets my nerves.

  Joe Louis

  Money

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• I played on this soccer team, called Hollywood United, and there were a lot of old ex-international pro-players. We played this benefit match at the Rose Bowl, and the crowd streamed in. It's so nerve-wracking to go out into a stadium, feeling a billion eyes upon you when you mess up your touches. That's an overwhelming environment.

  Donal Logue

  Soccer, Team, Eye

  "Donal Logue Talks SONS OF ANARCHY, How His Role Came About and His Possible Return Next Season, Plus His Experience in VIKINGS and SILENT NIGHT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 4, 2012.

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• The airman must possess absolutely untroubled nerves.

  Francis Collins

  Aviation, Airmen, Great Aviation

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• The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

  Mike Mills

  Grieving, Connections, Poetic

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• For the mission's sake, our country's sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division's colors in the past battles - who fought for life and never lost their nerve - carry out your mission and keep your honor clean. Demonstrate to the world there is "No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy" than a U.S. Marine.

  James Mattis

  Life, Country, Military

  "Eve of Battle Speech". "The Weekly Standard" Magazine, March 1, 2003.

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• I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies

  Joy Harjo

  Funny, Humorous, Musician

  Joy Harjo (1990). “In Mad Love and War”, p.21, Wesleyan University Press

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• The only system which is truly secure is one which is switched off and unplugged, locked in a titanium lined safe, buried in a concrete bunker, and is surrounded by nerve gas and very highly paid armed guards. Even then, I wouldn't stake my life on it.

  Gene Spafford

  Safe, Bunkers, Buried

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• The relative importance of the white and gray matter is often misunderstood. Were it not for the manifold connection of the nerve cells in the cortex by the tens of millions of fibres which make up the under-estimated white matter, such a brain would be useless as a telephone or telegraph station with all the interconnecting wires destroyed.

  Edward Anthony Spitzka

  Science, Cells, Gray Matter

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• My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

  Adrienne Rich

  Children, Feelings, Suffering

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an animal in appropriate tissue culture fluid, and when we add an antigen, the lymphocytes will produce specific antibody molecules, in the absense of any nerve cells. I find it astonishing that the immune system embodies a degree of complexity which suggests some more or less superficial though striking analogies with human language, and that this cognitive system has evolved and functions without assistance of the brain.

  Niels Kaj Jerne

  Animal, Cells, Brain

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• When thou diest, thy soul will be tormented alone; that will be a hell for it, but at the day of judgment they body will join thy soul, and then thou wilt have twin hells, thy soul sweating drops of blood, and thy body suffused with agony. In fire exactly like that which we have on earth thy body will lie, asbestos-like, forever unconsumed, all they veins roads for the feet of pain to travel on, every nerve a string on which the devil shall forever play his diabolical tune of 'Hell's Unutterable Lament'.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Pain, Lying, Fire

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• The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it.

  Jackie Vernon

  Sassy, Earth, Meek

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• The majority of people imagine a chess master as being a townsman who passes his life in an atmosphere of smoke and play in cafes and clubs: a neurasthenic individual, whose nerves and brains are continually working at tension: a one-sided person who has given up his whole soul to chess.

  Richard Reti

  Play, People, Soul

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• If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another's; if we feel, we would that another's nerves should vibrate to our own, that the beams of their eyes should kindle at once and mix and melt into our own, that lips of motionless ice should not reply to lips quivering and burning with the heart's best blood. This is Love.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Children, Eye

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”

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• No, I'm afraid they might slip and hit a nerve and I'd end up with one side of my face hanging down or something. I'll just stick with this one for a while and take my chances. I'll be brave.

  Lauren Bacall

  Memorable, Brave, Might

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• Yeah and she's my kinda crazy
  The little games she plays
  Lord they'll never get old
  She's too cute to get on my last nerve
  The way she throws her little fits
  Pokin' out her lip and bitin' mine when we kiss
  There ain't a fight that she can't win
  That's my baby
  And she's my kinda crazy

  Brantley Gilbert

  Cute, Country, Song

  Song: My Kind Of Crazy, Album: Halfway To Heaven, 2010

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• 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.

  Jessica Ennis

  Makeup, Hair, Events

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• 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.

  Tae Yun Kim

  Blood, Pulse, Energy

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