Nerves Quotes - Page 4

• People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to the other, more instantly negotiable virtues.... character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs.

  Joan Didion

  Spring, Responsibility, Character

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 09, 2011

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• To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.

  Johannes Peter Muller

  Expression, Light, Electric Current

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• Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

  Virginia Woolf

  Numbness, People, Soul

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2280, Delphi Classics

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  Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

  John Muir

  Travel, Home, Tired

  "Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays".

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• Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Men, Names

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• Nerves are normal. You can't be cured from them unless you're a machine.

  Venus Williams

  Machines, Normal

  "Serena struggles with nerves, just like everyone else" by Melissa Isaacson, abcnews.go.com. September 4, 2015.

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• I find acting slightly nerve racking, but I like the challenge.

  Jane Wiedlin

  Challenges, Acting

  "Jane Wiedlin lists her favorite SF things" by Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. February 26, 2012.

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• I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.

  Novak Djokovic

  Calm, Classical Music

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• Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

  Alan Rickman

  Theatre, Acting

  "Emma Watson attacked for 'exploiting' Alan Rickman's death 'to push her own feminist agenda'" by Helen Pye, www.mirror.co.uk. January 15, 2016.

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• I wish I had the nerve not to tip.

  Paul Lynde

  Funny, Life, Witty

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• The nerves are good... they keep you on point and they keep you not getting overconfident.

  Myles Jury

  Mma, Overconfident

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• We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

  George Eliot

  Blood, Subtle, Printed

  George Eliot (2016). “The Lifted Veil: Top Novelist Focus”, p.28, 谷月社

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• What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Adversity, Men, Practice

  Theodore Roosevelt (1899). “The Rough Riders: An Autobiography”, p.286, Library of America

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• It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Funny, People, Risk

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.224, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.

  Lee Trevino

  Memories, Golf, Remember

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• Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

  Queen Victoria

  Events, Calm, Quiet

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• A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  A Guide to Men prelude (1922)

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• I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Motivational, Basketball, Playing Games

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• Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Adrenal Glands, Lasts, Pancreas

  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1957). “Experimental psychology, and other essays”

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• Before I was a year old I walked and talked and I was even potty trained. When I started going to school I think I got on everyone's nerves because I used to ask adult questions rather than settle for the stuff usually fed to kids.

  Sharon Stone

  Kids, School, Thinking

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• I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me.

  Boz Scaggs

  Years, Trying, Rays

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• And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.

  Etta James

  Men, Done, Reaching

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• I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never.

  Evel Knievel

  Running, Bulletproof

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• You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused.

  Eliot Ness

  Thinking, Faces, Familiar

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• The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.

  Josiah Strong

  Civilization, Cities, Storm

  Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”

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