Nerves Quotes - Page 37

• 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 terrible thing about free soloing difficult routes that are within one's capacity, is the chance that faced with ultimate danger and need for ultimate self-control, one's nerve might fail and cause an error. That's irony of it - that fear could short-circiut skill, that one would die as a direcy result of being afraid to die.

  Royal Robbins

  Errors, Climbing, Self

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• I don't think I've ever not gotten nervous. When you work so hard for one special day or routine, you want to perform it better than you ever have. We always say at our gym, If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.

  Shawn Johnson

  Motivational, Sports, Gymnastics

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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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• My parents were strict. They weren't as strict on me as they were with the others, but my mother didn't want us to get on anyone's nerves... Go to someone else's house and drive their parents crazy. Another thing was they didn't want us to get into a lot of things that a lot of kids - if they're not careful - can slip into.

  Janet Jackson

  Mother, Crazy, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Yoga stimulates different nerves in your body, especially the Vagus nerve that carries information from the brain to most of the body's major organs, slows everything down and allows self-regulation. It's the nerve that is associated with the parasympathetic system and emotions like love, joy and compassion.

  Deepak Chopra

  Yoga, Compassion, Self

  Source: www.psychologies.co.uk

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• I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school. Caught in the most curiously depressing circumstances. For months I'd been stuck, unable to take one step in any new direction. The world kept moving on; I alone was at a standstill. In the autumn, everything took on a desolate cast, the colors swiftly fading before my eyes. The sunlight, the smell of the grass, the faintest patter of rain, everything got on my nerves.

  Haruki Murakami

  Depressing, Moving, Rain

  "A Wild Sheep Chase". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1982.

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• It is not your passing thoughts or brilliant ideas so much as your plain everyday habits that control your life....Live simply. Don’t get caught in the machine of the world— it is too exacting. By the time you get what you are seeking your nerves are gone, the heart is damaged, and the bones are aching. Resolve to develop your spiritual powers more earnestly from now on. Learn the art of right living. If you have joy you have everything,so learn to be glad and contented....Have happiness now.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Art, Ideas

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• If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, "created of warm blood and nerves" as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life.

  Raymond Carver

  Writing, Heart, Character

  Raymond Carver (2016). “Where I'm Calling From”, p.14, Random House

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• The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

  Minot Judson Savage

  Uplifting, Death, Memorial Day

  Minot Judson Savage (1884). “Poems of modern thought”

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• Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit.

  S. D Gordon

  Prayer, Vision, Purpose

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• Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is the the soul with its myriad tiny nerve endings that notices the neglected pathos, poignancy and practicality that lies at the heart of life. It's as if the media are somehow irritated and envious that anonymous people should have the quiet brilliance of their rich and sustainable inner lives.

  Michael Leunig

  Lying, Heart, Media

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• If your Nerve, deny you - Go above your Nerve

  Emily Dickinson

  Courage, Deny, Ifs

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.549, Delphi Classics

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