Nerves Quotes - Page 7

• May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.

  Sappho

  Writing, Stronger, Naked

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• You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.

  Margaret Atwood

  Rivers, Needs, Kind

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005”, p.106, Basic Books

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• Money ... is the nerve center of the economic system. If, therefore, the state is able to gain unquestioned control over the unit of all accounts, the state will then be in a position to dominate the entire economic system, and the whole society.

  Murray Rothbard

  Able, Gains, Economic

  "What Has Government Done to Our Money?". Book by Murray Rothbard, 1980.

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• Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever

  Howard Fast

  Arrogance, Yiddish

  Howard Fast (1977). “The Immigrants”, Dell Publishing Company

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• Nothing cuts the nerve of the desire to pursue holiness as much as a sense of guilt. On the contrary, nothing so motivates us to deal with sin in our lives as does the understanding and application of the two truth that our sins are forgiven and the dominion of sin is broken because of our union with Christ.

  Jerry Bridges

  Cutting, Two, Broken

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• Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense transmutes, and the spoken word winds through the ear's labyrinth into a sense that is no longer the nerve's realm. The written word unfolds behind the eye into the world, world's image, and the imagination sees as the eye cannot see-thoughtfully.

  Dan Beachy-Quick

  Writing, Eye, Air

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• Senseless is the breast and cold
  Which relenting love would fold;
  Bloodless are the veins and chill
  Which the pulse of pain did fill;
  Every little living nerve
  That from bitter words did swerve
  Round the tortur'd lips and brow,
  Are like sapless leaflets now
  Frozen upon December's bough.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Pain, Pulse, Veins

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• War makes extremely heavy demands on the soldier's strength and nerves. For this reason, make heavy demands on your men in peacetime exercises.

  Erwin Rommel

  Military, War, Exercise

  Erwin Rommel (2012). “Infantry Attacks”, p.15, Frontline Books

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• It takes a lot of nerve to bang your fist and demand tougher juvenile gun laws while doing nothing to enforce the ones that already exist. I must point out that doubling the size of the criminal code will not matter if the Clinton-Gore administration refuses to vigorously enforce these laws.

  Bill McCollum

  Gun, Law, Matter

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• The dismissal of any of these people would send a useful signal to U.S. allies that the president has the nerve - and self-awareness - to make a change.

  Bret Stephens

  Self, People, President

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• Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Power, Men, Blood

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1190, Manonmani Publishers

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• Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.

  Alan Watts

  Truth, Lying, Heart

  Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.38, New World Library

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• God lives in cozy homes. Happiness, which a cozy home can give you, is so divine on this Earth, you don't need anything more than that. God is unseen but His creation is known and seen. What is known and seen for you, if you cannot relate to that how can you relate to the unknown? If you can relate knowingly to your unknown thought, you can always find happiness. But you have to have nerves for it. You have to have a mental capacity for it, you have to have trained yourself, and this is the part of that training I have come to share with you.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Home

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• Today in the west we are asking the question, why is man unhappy? Answer is very simple. We have created a very fast society but we do not have a cozy home, and without a cozy home we do not have a mental state of nerve relaxed personality. Without having a mental state of nerve relaxed personality, you cannot face this fastness of the outer world; it's impossible.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Home

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• It was man who ended the Cold War in case you didn't notice. It wasn't weaponry, or technology, or armies or campaigns. It was just man. Not even Western man either, as it happened, but our sworn enemy in the East, who went into the streets, faced the bullets and the batons and said: we've had enough. It was their emperor, not ours, who had the nerve to mount the rostrum and declare he had no clothes. And the ideologies trailed after these impossible events like condemned prisoners, as ideologies do when they've had their day.

  John le Carre

  War, Army, Technology

  "The Secret Pilgrim". Book by John le Carré, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1990.

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• Recycle those nerves and make them adreneline.

  Katy Perry

  Racing

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• Choking is being in a position to win, and then experiencing some critical failure of nerve or spirit. That never happened to me. And I can't help but think it was because I was never afraid to lose.

  Pete Sampras

  Winning, Thinking, Tennis

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• Let's hope his nerves will run through his veins.

  John McEnroe

  Running, Tennis, Veins

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• I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations without panicking.

  Lucian

  Reading, Book, Next

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• What a curious workmanship is that of the eye, which is in the body, as the sun in the world; set in the head as in a watch-tower, having the softest nerves for receiving the greater multitude of spirits necessary for the act of vision!

  Stephen Charnock

  Eye, Vision, Receiving

  Stephen Charnock (2013). “The Existence and Attributes of God”, p.35, Ravenio Books

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• There are only two types of player-those who keep their nerves under control and win championships, and those who do not.

  Harry Vardon

  Sports, Golf, Winning

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• Donna E. Smyth - adventures with words; she is always doing something new and unique. Beginning with her visceral morality, her stories are startling, nerve wracking, provocative: she combines Angela Carter's beautiful style with Patricia Highsmith's malevolent atmospheres. Smyth shatters clichs and dismisses mere sociology. She knows that pleasure is besieged by terror. She tells us what we don't want to know, but need to know. Smyth's writing disturbs us, enrichingly, because truth can never be at peace with language.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Beautiful, Writing, Adventure

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• In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Adults, May, Path

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• The moment you resolve to be victorious, every nerve and fiber in your being will immediately orient itself toward your success.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Fiber, Moments, Resolve

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• Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

  Horace Bushnell

  Sorrow, Guilt, Guilt Free

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