Nerve Quotes

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. (Christopher Morley)
He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation. View quote
Don DeLillo
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. View quote
Helen Rowland
Mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star, Is Love, though oft to agony distrest, And though his favorite seat be feeble woman's breast. View quote
William Wordsworth
Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines. View quote
Paul Brunton
I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me. View quote
Boz Scaggs
Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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 belong to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity. View quote
Graham Greene
The clitoris contains 8,000 nerve endings. It makes it easy to have sex. With yourself. (Dannii Minogue)
Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences unless she was convinced there was no danger of a satisfactory solution; then she strained every nerve in the cause of peace. View quote
E. M. Forster
She moved nearer, leaned her shoulder against me- and we were one, and something flowed from her into me, and I knew: this is how it must be. I knew it with every nerve, and every hair, and every heartbeat, so sweet it verged on pain. And what joy to submit to this "must." A piece of iron must feel such joy as it submits to the precise, inevitable law that draws it to a magnet. Or a stone, thrown up, hesitating for a moment, then plunging headlong back to earth. Or a man, after the final agony, taking a last deep breath - and dying. View quote
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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. View quote
Roger Ebert
Women are terrified of being raped, but somewhere in the back of the womb there is one rebellious nerve end that tingles with curiosity whenever the word is mentioned. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Odd to think that the piece of you I know best is already dead. The cells on the surface of your skin are thin and flat without the blood vessels or nerve endings. Dead cells, thickest on the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster. View quote
William Randolph Hearst
Money ... is the nerve center of the economic system. If, therefore, the state is able to gain unquestioned control over the unit of all accounts, the state will then be in a position to dominate the entire economic system, and the whole society. View quote
Murray Rothbard
You will never lose your nerve. Your life, probably, but never your nerve. View quote
Laurell K. Hamilton
Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory. View quote
Alan Alda
NEGRO Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed-not by its residents-Africa. Superior to the Caucasian in that negroes did not invent nuclear weapons, the automobile, Christianity, nerve gas, the concentration camp, military epidemics, or the megalopolis. (John Brunner)
You got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down, you just stood there grinning. View quote
Bob Dylan
For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver. View quote
Virginia Woolf
The body knows no pain, not like the soul. At least a nerve has limits, a body part a name. But the soul ... the soul ... There is no bandage -- even crying is in vain. View quote
Vanna Bonta
Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair. View quote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox