our nerve filaments twitch with its presence day and night, nothing we say has not the husky phlegm of it in the saying, nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.
Nerves are normal. You can't be cured from them unless you're a machine.
We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves.
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.
When other people reject positive changes you make for yourself, there is always some nerve to get to the root of in those other people.
Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.
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?
It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.
Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman gets on my nerves.
I have no nerves, no emotion, no pressure.
With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.
Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever
It was always exciting, but it was also always dangerous. And fear takes a toll finally: when you live in danger from moment to moment, the constant tension becomes very wearying. Every step I took on the roads of Gelderland was nerve-wracking, because I was secretly carrying the very material that could turn out to be my own death warrant.
We have the power, knowledge, and equipment to build a world beyond our wonder. Only loss of nerve can defeat us.
The nerves are good. . . they keep you on point and they keep you not getting overconfident.
What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble.
Here is the thing about Donald Trump. Donald Trump is hitting a nerve in this country.
Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it.
absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird
The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say, 'As we have nothing sensible to tell you between now and 8:30, please tune in again then.