Nerves Quotes - Page 36

• Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.

  George Santayana

  Fighting, Animal, Men

  George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

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• When you've got a date on your calendar saying that you will be putting this in front of people in four weeks, that will get your nerves good, yeah.

  Ewan McGregor

  People, Calendars, Four

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I think every athlete will tell you no matter what sport you're in, when you train so hard and when you care so much about doing what you do, there's a little bit of nerves that come with that. But nerves that won't prevent you form performing, nerves that, hopefully, allow you to be that much more motivated and inspired to do well.

  Sidney Crosby

  Sports, Athlete, Thinking

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• The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.

  Graham Greene

  Happiness, Pain, Identity

  Graham Greene (1951). “The End of the Affair”, London Heinemann [1951]

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• The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Thinking

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• "I feel like, like pudding," Iggy groaned. "Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain."

  James Patterson

  Pain, Humorous, Pudding

  "Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment". Book by James Patterson, April 11, 2005.

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• Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade, and is confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is, after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Inspirational, Sweet, Night

  "The Gulag Archipelago". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1974.

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• Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.

  J. G. Ballard

  Memories, Blood, Desire

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• I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Relax, Wish, Want

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “This Side of Paradise”, p.6, Xist Publishing

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• I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Courage, Reality, Way

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• But the question that everyone wanted answered was whether I would have the nerve and the strength to start the whole process from scratch. I said yes; otherwise I would be someone who had no dream left, and without dreams I would not want to live.

  Werner Herzog

  Dream, Scratches, Would Be

  Werner Herzog (2009). “Conquest of the useless: reflections from the making of Fitzcarraldo”, Ecco Pr

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• He was still stroking the inside of her wrist, his touch doing odd delicious things to her skin and nerves.

  Cassandra Clare

  Skins, Odd, Wrists

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Passion, Order

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So, you're worried that a pink dragon will fly over the concent and fart nerve gas on us?

  Neal Stephenson

  Dragons, Worried, Fart

  Neal Stephenson (2010). “Anathem”, p.110, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Dream, Passion

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.158, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.

  Frederick Douglass

  Country, Strong, 4th Of July

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• The devil strains every nerve to secure the souls which belong to Christ. We should not grudge our toil in wresting them from Satan and giving them back to God.

  Saint Sebastian

  Faith, Inspiration, Giving

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• All that you ever need to know about genitals is that they are made up of flesh, blood, and millions of tiny, restless nerve endings - anything else that you read into them is mere hallucination, a product of your own overactive imagination.

  Julia Serano

  Blood, Imagination, Needs

  Julia Serano (2016). “Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity”, p.132, Seal Press

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• It sometimes takes days, even weeks, before a dog's nerves tire. In the case of terriers it can run into months.

  E. B. White

  Funny, Running, Dog

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• Saddam Hussein had nerve gas and used it against his own people, he had used chemical weapons against the Iranians and he almost had a nuclear bomb in 1981 and in 1991. And he had been caught with anthrax in 1995 by the UN inspections after denying that he had it.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  People, Nuclear, Bombs

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Somebody's going to hear a song that will key in a nerve or something in their experience that represents their own vision. And the next person is going to see it completely different. So even what it means to me is probably irrelevant. It's totally irrelevant. What matters is what it means to each person listening to it.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Mean, What Matters

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• I think I opened up an area with Astral Weeks that hit a lot of peoples' nerves. But you can't really say that they're my favorite songs.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Thinking, Week

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• Doesn't it get on my nerves when people say science doesn't know everything. Science knows it doesn't know everything otherwise it would stop. Just becuase science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy-tale appeals to you.

  Dara O Briain

  Mean, People, Gaps

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• Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb/I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from/Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.

  Bob Dylan

  Prayer, Dark, Body

  "Song: "Not Dark Yet" ("Time Out of Mind")". 1997.

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• If I'm playing music in front of people, I'll lose days to nerves like really wasted days of just like being terrified. And then when I get out there, generally speaking, I enjoy it very much. But it seems to be I have to accept the fact that that's just part of the deal for me. And I can't just run on and do it.

  Ewan McGregor

  Running, People, Playing Music

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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