Nerves Quotes - Page 18

• Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them

  G. Stanley Hall

  Giving, Dancing, Support

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• Ann's got to take her nerve by the horns.

  Virginia Wade

  Tennis, Horns

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

  John McEnroe

  Running, Tennis, Veins

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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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• Recycle those nerves and make them adreneline.

  Katy Perry

  Racing

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• Though it is hard to believe, it is conservatively estimated that 25 to 50 million Americans carry trichinae larvae in their muscles and internal organs. ...If the (trichinosis) worms affect the heart, respiratory systems, or the nerves, severe symptoms or even death may result.

  Ruth Winter

  Believe, Heart, Dark

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• Three months later, on September 5, 2001, at a pro-am event preceding the Canadian Open at the Royal Montreal Golf Club, I was invited to play a round with Tiger Woods. Nothing in the game of politics had ever been as nerve-racking as that game of golf.

  Jean Chretien

  Golf, Games, Play

  "My Years As Prime Minister". Book by Jean Chrétien, 2007.

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• American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.

  Joseph McCarthy

  Cities, Asceticism, Bears

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• What I had mastered was fly-fishing Rule # 1: Remove all hooks from soft tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed nerve endings and you can't hear your fellow anglers' hysterical laughter.

  Jessica Maxwell

  Laughter, Sea, Fishing

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• I think, in life, being nervous about something that's forthcoming is very helpful, whether it's an awards show or a family gathering or a job interview. If you're too calm and confident, then I think you aren't executing to the best of your ability. So I try not to let nerves get the best of me, but I welcome them because it tends to fuel me to try harder.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Jobs, Thinking, Awards

  "Neil Patrick Harris welcomes a Kanye moment at Oscars". CBS Interview, www.cbsnews.com. February 19, 2015.

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• Nothing is going to stay the same; nothing's gonna sound like in 1952. There's some stuff that has some elements of back in the day, like back in the 90's, back in the 80's or whatever. Some elements, but it's not going to be the same, exactly, sounding. And I love it, I've seen the music change. I've seen the flow and the energy go from turned up to turned down to back to turned up. I like to try different stuff. I don't like to do the same old thing over and over again. I don't like to be repetitive, that gets on my nerves.

  Juicy J

  Old Things, Trying, Back In The Day

  Source: www.independentphilly.com

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• But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness of the human condition, in the writer's touching some common nerve ending. I think this kind of social commitment, like a lady's slip, should be there but it must not show.

  Bel Kaufman

  Commitment, Thinking, Touching

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• there was nothing like necessity to supply a lack of nerve.

  Helen Nielsen

  Courage

  Helen Nielsen (2012). “Detour to Death”, p.54, Prologue Books

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• What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age?

  Helene Hanff

  Years, Age, Best Year

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• What I do not know and cannot even hope to understand before I die is why human beings are willfully, coldly, matter-of-factly cruel to each other ... What nerve has atrophied in the torturer, or worse is sensually moved?

  Storm Jameson

  Matter, Cruelty, Humans

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• Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

  James F. Cooper

  Death, Night, Iron

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• If someone wants to lead a double life, they will find a way to do it. And they can promise you things until your nerves unfold and you can finally put up your feet. But it can all be a lie. There are no guarantees, even when people mean what they say at the time. People change their minds. People die. And the hurt is as real as a baseball bat.

  Stephanie Klein

  Baseball, Hurt, Real

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• 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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