Nerves Quotes - Page 3

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.

Elihu Root

Real, War, Patriotic

Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause.

Johannes Peter Muller

Quality, Body, Causes

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Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.

Fritz Kreisler

Men, Numbers, Roaring

Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.21, Pickle Partners Publishing

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In the case of the stomach, however, the nerves of the glandular cells were always severed when constructing an artificially isolated pouch and this, naturally, affected the normal work of the stomach.

Ivan Pavlov

Cells, Normal, Stomach

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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Knowledge, Doctors, Doe

The Speckled Band

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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Edmund Burke

Inspirational, Life, Education

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

Quentin Crisp

God, Order, Giving

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To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Harry Vardon

Peace, Golf, Play

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I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.

Eric Clapton

Half

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A stem cell is essentially a blank cell capable of becoming another, more differentiated cell-type in the body, such as a skin cell, a muscle cell or a nerve cell.

Virginia Foxx

Cells, Skins, Body

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But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

Robert Browning

Fall, Eye, Laughing

Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.241, Wordsworth Editions

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Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel.

Fred Barnes

Strong, People, Decision

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The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves.

Wynton Marsalis

People, Say Anything, Calm

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Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

Herbert Gold

Memories, Careers, Literature

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I have been on the same dose of anti-depressants for 15 years, and my nerves still go up and down in cycles; but my nerves are cycling at a lower level than they were before.

Temple Grandin

Cycling, Years, Levels

Interview with Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.

Jerry Garcia

Real, Character, Effort

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Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

Paul Brunton

Strength, Being Alone, Men

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That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising.

Charles Scott Sherrington

Strong, Should, Muscles

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Putting affects the nerves more than anything. I would actually get nauseated over three-footers.

Byron Nelson

Three, Affection

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

Funny, Music, Love You

Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.266, Wordsworth Editions

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I only drink to steady my nerves... sometimes I'm so steady I don't move for months.

W. C. Fields

Drinking, Moving, Months

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It's a great story. It's available for anyone else who wants to try it. We're not brilliant. We're not unbelievable. We're just two people who hit a nerve. I think it can be done again and again and again. More people should try it.

Jerry Moss

Thinking, Two, People

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You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin

Bob Dylan

Friendship, Being Happy, My Friends

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No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw.

Christy Mathewson

Men, Yellow, Attention

Christy Mathewson (2013). “Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside”, p.31, Penguin

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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

J. K. Rowling

Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

Twitter post from Jun 6, 2016

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