Nerves Quotes - Page 34

• Philosophy gets on my nerves. If we analyze the ultimate ground of everything, then everything finally falls into nothingness. But I have decided to resume my lectures again and look the Hydra of doubt straight into the eye, and it be quite ominous if one values one's life.

  Ludwig Boltzmann

  Philosophy, Fall, Eye

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

  Helio Gracie

  Sports, Blood, Names

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• I've got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve.

  Les Dawson

  Teacher, School, Lions

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Gestures, Born, Myth

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Complaining, Disease, Germs

  Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word”, Pelican Publishing Company

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• 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.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Powerful, Men, Tree

  Paula Modersohn-Becker, Günter Busch, Liselotte von Reinken, Arthur S. Wensinger, Carole Clew Hoey (1998). “Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Letters and Journals”, p.80, Northwestern University Press

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

  George Carlin

  Heart, Iron, Gold

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• There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.

  Kirby Larson

  Calm, Outburst, Occasional

  Kirby Larson (2007). “Hattie Big Sky”, p.54, Yearling

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• It's nerve wracking being in the stadium with so many people supporting.

  Yohan Blake

  People, Stadiums

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• Hamilton dabbed a tissue at the cut under his eye. "Except for the time I met the Great Khali, that was the coolest thing I've ever done!" The foursome, only slightly the worse for wear, stood on the tarmac of the small airfield outside Milan, transferring their luggage from the limo to Jonah's jet for the flight back to Florence. "You didn't do anything, yo," Jonah seethed. "It was done to all of us by the freak show with the nerve to complain that the family branches are too violent!

  Gordon Korman

  Eye, Cutting, Complaining

  Gordon Korman (2011). “The Medusa Plot”, p.140, Scholastic Inc.

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• A man once said that the pinnacle of success
  Is when you've finally lost interest
  In money, compliments, and publicity
  A noble enough idea, I suppose
  How on earth he does this, heaven only knows
  I know I need a lot more of all three of those
  Before I ever have the nerve to turn up my nose
  At any money, compliments, and publicity.

  Todd Snider

  Men, Ideas, Heaven

  "Song: 'Money, Compliments, Publicity'". 2009.

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• You will never lose your nerve. Your life, probably, but never your nerve.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Loses

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.361, Penguin

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• Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will occur in your present, allowing you to behave in entirely new fashions. Learned behavior therefore alters not only present and future but also past conduct.

  Jane Roberts

  Fashion, Teaching, Past

  Jane Roberts (2011). “The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know”, p.359, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• NEGRO :; Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed not by its residents Africa. Superior to the Caucasian in that negroes did not invent nuclear weapons, the automobile, Christianity, nerve gas, the concentration camp, military epidemics, or the megalopolis.

  John Brunner

  Military, Epidemics, Race

  John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.73, Macmillan

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• That stupid Charlie Brown! He had the nerve to say I'm not perfect!" "So I suppose you hit him, huh?" "Rats! I knew I forgot something!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Stupid, Perfect, Rats

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

  Laurence Fox

  Home, Useless, Amusing

  "Laurence Fox: 'I knew Billie was the one for me...'". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2010.

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• 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.

  Mickey Mantle

  Yankees, Games, Riding

  Mickey Mantle (1986). “The Mick”, Jove Publications

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• I think it's healthy to be insecure, to have nerves.

  Julia Sawalha

  Insecure, Thinking, Healthy

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• 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.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Beach, Blow, Thinking

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• The artists who have inspired me the most in my life are the ones who have really had something to say and stand up for. That, to me, is part of being an artist-having the voice to express things that need to be verbalized and brought to light. Unfortunately, I don't think that's a priority for people, because the few artists who do have the nerve to take a stand for what they believe get shut down in a way.

  Alicia Keys

  Believe, Artist, Thinking

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• The bicycle... has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language... equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation - in four words, the emanicipation of women.

  John Galsworthy

  Strong, Sex, Weekend

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• Changes in my personal life are nerve-racking for me.

  Donny Deutsch

  Personal Life

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• 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

  Song, Cutting, Black

  'Time and Western Man' (1927) pt. 1, ch. 13

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• The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time.

  Shania Twain

  Spotlight, Littles, Red

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Lou Reed

  Running, Blood, Sound

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