Nerves Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

  Charles Lamb

  Character, Wit, Reader

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.9

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• I do not think that the nerve of the modern child is any too good; how can one expect it, brought up as they are amongst all the horrors of civilization. The 'daring' child who used to be common enough, is seldom met nowadays.

  Muriel Wace

  Children, Thinking, Civilization

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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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• Everybody just gets on my nerves after like, 10 minutes, you know.

  Mat Johnson

  Minutes, Knows

  "Writer Mat Johnson On 'Loving Day' And Life As A 'Black Boy' Who Looks White". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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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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• 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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• The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.

  George Henry Borrow

  Philosophy, Men, People

  George Henry Borrow (1851). “Lavengro: The Scholar--the Gypsy--the Priest”, p.136

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• I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.

  Margaret Halsey

  Fire, Hot, Embarrassment

  Margaret Halsey (1944). “Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• Let brisker youths their active nerves prepare
  Fit their light silken wings and skim the buxom air.

  Richard Owen Cambridge

  Light, Air, Wings

  Richard Owen Cambridge (1751). “The Scribleriad: An Heroic Poem. In Six Books”

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• Nerves are good. They keep you alive.

  Idina Menzel

  Alive, Overconfident

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• Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman gets on my nerves.

  Len Goodman

  People, Please, Bloody

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• I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

  Gordon Gee

  College, President, Skins

  "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve.

  Rodney Crowell

  Peace, Men, Special

  Song: Time to Go Inward, Album: Fate's Right Hand, 2003

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• Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially. When they are growing up, they are nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly) any invasion of their privacy. Oh, sure, they'll make mistakes - but that's their business, not yours. (You made your own mistakes, did you not?)

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sex, Business, Growing Up

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.237, Penguin

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• A 3-foot putt can be more nerve-racking than a 9-foot putt because a 3-foot putt you should be getting in. A 9-footer, there's a chance it won't go in.

  Lydia Ko

  Feet, Chance, Should

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• I find doing speeches nerve wrecking.

  Kate Middleton

  Speech

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• The structure of the human brain is enormously complex. It contains about 10 billion nerve cells (neurons), which are interlinked in a vast network through 1,000 billion junctions (synapses). The whole brain can be divided into subsections, or sub-networks, which communicate with each other in a network fashion. All this results in intricate patterns of intertwined webs, networks of nesting within larger networks.

  Fritjof Capra

  Fashion, Philosophy, Cells

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• Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.

  Thia Megia

  Energy, Wipe, Crowds

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• I'm half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all.

  James Nachtwey

  Ears, Half, Damage

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• I definitely feel much more comfortable in front of the cameras after 'The Hills.' Before, it was much more nerve-racking.

  Audrina Patridge

  Cameras, Hills, Feels

  Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2009.

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• I never said I was an angel. Nor am I innocent or holy like the Virgin Mary. What I am is natural and serious and as sensitive as an open nerve on an ice cube.

  Sister Souljah

  Angel, Ice, Cubes

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