Quotes by category:Nerves

Honestly, I thought I was going to be a kite forever, suffocating inside a little feathery prison. And he had the nerve to make fun!

nerves forever fun

If you ever leave me again,’ she said, her eyes stinging, ‘I swear to all the gods-‘ Percy had the nerve to laugh. Suddenly the lump of heated emotions melted inside Annabeth. ‘Consider me warned,’ Percy said. ‘I missed you, too.

nerves eye laughing

New research shows that emotions have a separate system of nerve pathways, through the limbic system to the cortex, allowing emotional signals to avoid conscious control.

Robert E. Ornstein

pathways nerves emotional

I should’ve been very cross with Anubis. Kissing me without permi... by Rick Riordan

I should’ve been very cross with Anubis. Kissing me without permission—the nerve!

anubis nerves kissing

Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, wh... by Robert Redford

Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve.

nerves race people

I never thought people would buy the soundtrack [to Twilight]. So, it's a little more nerve-wracking now. I don't know.

Robert Pattinson

nerves twilight people

I don't know why I am internally a violent person. I don't have the normal nerve endings most people do, which was very good for me as a pilot in Viet Nam. When most people are afraid, I'm actually quite excited about things. The more dangerous something is, the happier I am.

Robert Kiyosaki

pilots nerves people

I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.

relax nerves and-love

Only enormously talented people could have made Death to Smoochy . Those with lesser gifts would have lacked the nerve to make a film so bad, so miscalculated, so lacking any connection with any possible audience.

connections nerves people

There's a lot of nerves. It all goes away though once they say "f... by Rory MacDonald

There's a lot of nerves. It all goes away though once they say "fight".

mma nerves fighting

I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot.

nerves doe thinking

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

nerves vision prayer

I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscienc... by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves.

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

artistic conscience nerves

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

nerves differences government

What nerve. Not even a modicum of originality. by Samuel Goldwyn

What nerve. Not even a modicum of originality.

originality nerves

I had a tumor in my left eye which killed the optic nerve, but it's my real eye. I just cannot see out of it.

nerves eye real

In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated.

Santiago Ramon y Cajal

nerves adults may

Footage of young people getting shot. That bothers me. It hits a... by Sasha Grey

Footage of young people getting shot. That bothers me. It hits a nerve.

shots nerves people

Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves. by Sean O'Casey

Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.

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That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures.

Sergei Lukyanenko

gestures born nerves