Nervous Quotes - Page 18

• On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Thinking, Upset, Environmental

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• Kay was older and bigger than the Wart, so that he was bound to win in the end, but he was more nervous and imaginative. He could imagine the effect of each blow that was aimed at him, and this weakened his defense. Wart was only an infuriated hurricane.

  T. H. White

  Blow, Winning, Defense

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.75, Penguin

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• Illnesses which occur because of physical causes should be treated by doctors with medical remedies; those which are due to spiritual causes disappear through spiritual means. Thus an illness caused by affliction, fear, nervous impressions, will be healed more effectively by spiritual rather than physical treatment. Hence, both kinds of treatment should be followed; they are not contradictory.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Spiritual, Mean, Doctors

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• You talk more when you're nervous," he said, still standing close to her. "No i don't. That's absurd. I'm just trying to explain to you-" "Do i make you nervous?" "No. I'm not nervous." "You're trembling." "I'm cold. I'm wearing practically zero clothes." His glance went to her lips, then back to her eyes. "I noticed.

  Michele Jaffe

  Zero, Eye, Clothes

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• You must be Warden Ramirez." This is the part where I got nervous. Ramirez loved women. Ramirez never shut up about women. Well, he never shut up about anything in general, but he'd go on and on about various conquests and feats of sexual athleticism and— "A virgin?" Lara blurted. Lara blurted. She turned her head to me, grey eyes several shades paler than they had been, and very wide. "Really, Harry, I'm not sure what to say. Is he a present?

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Goes On, Shade

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1726, Penguin

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• Dear Isabelle, Alec is about to have a nervous breakdown. If you do not immediately desist planing my wedding to your brother, I will come back to Manhattan and blow up the Institute. I will turn Church into a man-eating beast who will rampage through the streets of Manhattan, stepping on mundanes. And I will make you fat. Love, Magnus

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Blow, Men

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• Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It engraves on the countenance of its servant the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventures, and even if he has outwardly existed in cloistral tranquility, it leads in the long term to overfastidiousness, over-refinement, nervous fatigue and overstimulation, such as can seldom result from a life of the most extravagant passions and pleasures.

  Thomas Mann

  Art, Passion, Adventure

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• It makes me nervous when you keep answering all my questions with 'I don't know.' " "Me, too," I said.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Said, Know Me, Knows

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.156, Penguin

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• Hi." "Hi." I shrug, as though to say "Whatever." In my peripheral vision I can see Magnus exhale. He looks a teeny bit nervous. "So." "So." I can play this game too. "Poppy." "Poppy. I mean, Magnus." I scowl. He caught me out.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Mean, Games, Play

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• It is obvious enough for the reader to conclude, "She loves young Emerson." A reader in Lucy's place would not find it obvious. Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice, and we welcome "nerves" or any other shibboleth that will cloak our personal desire. She loved Cecil; George made her nervous; will the reader explain to her that the phrases should have been reversed?

  E. M. Forster

  Should Have, Practice, Desire

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.463, Delphi Classics

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• Using less of the Earth’s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to renewable energies are defining features of the emerging economic paradigm. In the new era, we each become a node in the nervous system of the biosphere.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Energy, Transition, Fuel

  Jeremy Rifkin (2014). “The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism”, p.14, Palgrave Macmillan

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• I know the M-word makes you nervous, but yeah. I'm talking about the big, permanent friendship. A little different from what Joe and Charles had, though. See, I want to be the kind of best friends who make love every night, who share all their darkest secrets and favorite jokes, and maybe even someday make babies together. I know that kind of friendship requires hard work, but you know, I'm pretty good at hard work. ~ Tom Paoletti, "The Unsung Hero

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Baby, Hero, Hard Work

  Suzanne Brockmann (2003). “The Unsung Hero”, p.393, Ballantine Books

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• Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Mind, Kind, Obedient

  Diana Wynne Jones (2013). “The Chrestomanci Series: Entire Collection”, p.92, HarperCollins UK

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• Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives we lead. A sizeable part of who we are is ordained by our genes, by our brains, by our nervous systems. And yet the elasticity that Schwartz found in some of the high-reactive teens also suggests the converse: we have free will and can use it to shape our personalities.

  Susan Cain

  Personality, Brain, Important

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• Ella is nervous,” the harpy muttered from her perch on the railing. “The elephant. The elephant is watching Ella.

  Rick Riordan

  Elephants, Harpies, Percy Jackson And The Olympians

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• But in that moment when my brother took the field, all that washed away, and everyone was proud... I looked up at my dad, and he was smiling. I looked at my mom, and she was smiling even though she was nervous about my brother getting hurt, which was strange because it was a VCR tape of an old game, and she knew he didn't get hurt.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Mom, Brother, Hurt

  Stephen Chbosky (2012). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• Girls think they’re only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says, you know, I’m going over to see a boy who is having a nervous breakdown, a boy whose connection to the sense of sight itself is tenuous, and gosh dang it, I am going to wear a dress for him.

  John Green

  Girl, Boys, Thinking

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, 2012.

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• You’re probably thinking: Wait, you just charged in without a plan? But Annabeth and I had been fighting together for years. We knew each other’s abilities. We could anticipate each other’s moves. I might have felt awkward and nervous about being her boyfriend, but fighting with her? That came naturally. Hmm…that sounded wrong. Oh, well.

  Rick Riordan

  Moving, Fighting, Thinking

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• He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

  Dodie Smith

  Long, Insanity, May

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.345, St. Martin's Griffin

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• She would try picturing him in his underwear, but that was even more disturbing since all it did was make her hot and even more nervous… He had to be the only man alive who could pull off intimidating in his tighty-whities. God, what if all that massive hotness was commando?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, What If, Trying

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.475, Macmillan

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• Are you asking me to undress, Tris?' A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially

  Veronica Roth

  Laughing, Asking, Tris

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• Unfortunately, the headlights of the car were bright enough for them to see Mae's outfit quite clearly. "Oh my God," said Nick, and shut his eyes. Jamie gave a small, nervous laugh. "What?" Mae demanded. "Alan told us that we were supposed to dress as we truly are!" "And you felt that what you truly are is a Christmas tree with too much tinsel." Nick grinned. "Huh.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Eye, Laughing, Car

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2009). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Evie was so nervous that she downed her cocktail in two stiff swigs, then refilled her glass. Henry arched an eyebrow. “A pro, I see.” “What else is there to do in Ohio?

  Libba Bray

  Glasses, Ohio, Eyebrows

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• Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.

  Luke Davies

  Wind, People, Joy

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• He's a wallflower." And Bob nodded his head. And the whole room nodded their head. And i started to feel nervous in the Bob way, but Patrick didn't let me get too nervous. He sat down next to me. "You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Bob, Way, Rooms

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