Nerves Quotes - Page 24

• 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.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Success, Player, Thinking

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• It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve without generating electricity, a trumpeter swan may float on uncontaminated water - and moderns may at least see what their ancestors knew in their nerves and blood.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Nature, Fall, Swans

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• 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

  Men, Wish, Small Business

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• You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an aureole on vice, provided only if it is honest. Your ideal is a daring courtesan of genius. Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Men, Imagination, Way

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.49, Cosimo Classics

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• 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.

  Evita Peron

  Heart, People, Soul

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• Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves, or a dynamo governing a particular sensibility or intelligence and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

  Coleman Dowell

  Death, Block, Loss

  "Mrs. October was Here".

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• I don't feel pressure because what everyone expects of me is what I expect of myself anyway. Everyone expects me to win this fight, I expect myself to win this fight. It's not any more pressure than what I put on myself. I don't suffer nerves, I don't feel pressure, I just go out and do what I need to do.

  Jake Matthews

  Workout, Fighting, Winning

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• The riding of young horses is an excellent nerve tonic.

  Geoffrey Brooke

  Horse, Riding, Excellent

  Geoffrey Brooke (1913). “Training Young Horses to Jump”

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• My nerves will come when I have to take off my top.

  Angel Porrino

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• Forgive me. I can no longer live with my nerves.

  Jean Seberg

  Forgive Me, Forgiving, I Can

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• There are little things that get on my nerves, like people who have reading material in their powder room. When you go in someone’s house, and next to the toilet they have a huge basket of magazines, I find that repellent. I recommend against straining while reading.

  John Waters

  Reading, People, House

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• The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking.

  Christina Aguilera

  Auditions, Blind, Process

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• I have no nerves, no emotion, no pressure.

  Eileen Collins

  Pressure, Emotion, No Pressure

  "I have no nerves, no emotion, no pressure" by David Adam, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2005.

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• Awake, my soul! Stretch every nerve, And press with vigor on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown.

  Philip Doddridge

  Race, Soul, Vigor

  Philip Doddridge, John Doddridge HUMPHREYS (1839). “Scriptural Hymns ... New and corrected edition, containing many hymns never before printed. Edited ... by ... J. D. Humphreys, etc”, p.232

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• The Iraqi regime . . . possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons. We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas.

  George W. Bush

  War, Iraq, Mass Destruction

  Address to the Nation on the Threat of Iraq, delivered 7 October 2002, Cincinnati Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio

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• Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here ... and here. These are the nerve-ends of the world.

  Colin Thubron

  Journey, World, Maps

  Colin Thubron (2009). “Shadow of the Silk Road”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• War is an unpredictable beast. Once unleashed, it runs like a rabid dog, ravening friend or foe alike. It can drag on for years, a slow attrition of nerve and fortitude, or be over in one brilliant flash, an extravagant conflagration of flame and blood and waste.

  Kate Forsyth

  Running, Dog, War

  Kate Forsyth (2002). “The Fathomless Caves: Book Six of the Witches of Eileanan”, p.131, Penguin

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• I have the most perfect belly button. When I stick my fingers in it, I feel a nerve in the center of my body shoot up my spine.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Perfect, Buttons, Body

  "Confessions of a Madonna". SPIN Magazine, May 27, 1985.

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• My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.

  Hailee Steinfeld

  Thinking, Tape, Pages

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once.

  Hollis Frampton

  Fire, Neurons, Ends

  Hollis Frampton, Bruce Jenkins (2009). “On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton”, p.243, MIT Press

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• 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.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Brother, Desire, Actors

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

  Chelsea Krost

  Answers, Vulnerable, Kicks

  "Millennial Expert Chelsea Krost: Success, Social Media, and Unplugging". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• He knew how to handle pain. You had to lie down with pain, not draw back away from it. You let yourself sort of move around the outside edge of pain like with cold water until you finally got up your nerve to take yourself in hand. Then you took a deep breath and dove in and let yourself sink down it clear to the bottom. And after you had been down inside pain a while you found that like with cold water it was not nearly as cold as you had thought it was when your muscles were cringing themselves away from the outside edge of it as you moved around it trying to get up your nerve. He knew pain.

  James Jones

  Pain, Lying, Moving

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• My heart beats so hard it hurts, and I can't scream and I can't breathe, but I also feel everything, every vein and every fiber, every bone and every nerve, all awake and buzzing in my body as if charged with electricity. I am pure adrenaline.

  Veronica Roth

  Hurt, Heart, Veins

  "Divergent". Book by Veronica Roth, April 25, 2011.

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• The woman who became the Duchesse d'Angoulême did indeed have painful memories, but she was not only very brave but I would say she had "nerves of steel." As I wrote in the book, one woman, defeated, one woman, defiant.

  Susan Nagel

  Memories, Book, Brave

  Source: teaattrianon.blogspot.com

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