When you have empathy toward your opponents, it helps you destroy them quicker. Because you understand exactly who they are. You understand… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
Religion and politics hit nerves. There's a lot of anger about a lot of things. It's not easily resolved. I guess that's… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
“These are icebreakers. You’re not supposed to break the ice, you’re just supposed to coat your voice with as many layers of… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Though it is hard to believe, it is conservatively estimated that 25 to 50 million Americans carry trichinae larvae in their muscles… — Ruth Winter Copy Share Image
What I had mastered was fly-fishing Rule # 1: Remove all hooks from soft tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed… — Jessica Maxwell Copy Share Image
Some people get medals and awards and all that, and maybe not intentionally - maybe the world is making them do it… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I would say facing the obstacles surrounding the day-to-day pressures of an elite athlete at a very young age was not the… — Tara Lipinski Copy Share Image
I started going blind and my optic nerves of my eye started giving me tunnel vision. I also started fainting a bit… — John Newman Copy Share Image
If there's been any use of nerve gas it's the rebels that used it. If there has been a use of chemical… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
The mind in its foolishness thinks that it is working in this body. Why should I be bound by one system of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Ambulances always come with clouds of smoke. And then they disappear in a whistle. But what they bring is fear. Not freedom.… — Giannina Braschi Copy Share Image
For 14 years, I'd been on medication for the pinched nerve, the arthritis, the muscle spasms in my neck, and I'd lost… — Betty Ford Copy Share Image
I think, in life, being nervous about something that's forthcoming is very helpful, whether it's an awards show or a family gathering… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
“I always figured nerves were for Jane Austen characters and helium-voiced girls who never buy their round; I would no more have… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I think every athlete will tell you no matter what sport you're in, when you train so hard and when you care… — Sidney Crosby Copy Share Image
Loneliness is a drug, a narcotic; it grows through veins, through nerves and muscles; it assumes some right of possession over your… — R.J. Ellory Copy Share Image
We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell… — John Muir Copy Share Image
However spontaneous I hope a photograph will look, I always put a lot of thought into how I can make it happen.… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I was at a bar, and this guy bumped into me, and he did not apologize, and he said, "Move!" I thought… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
dreams must not take the place of actual life, nor constitute themselves a cowardly escape from it, but become rather a sanctuary… — Maude Meagher Copy Share Image
Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I do not think that the nerve of the modern child is any too good; how can one expect it, brought up… — Muriel Wace Copy Share Image
our nerve filaments twitch with its presence day and night, nothing we say has not the husky phlegm of it in the… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
“Don't be afraid", I murmured. "We belong together." I was abruptly overwhelmed by th truth of my own words. This moment was… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think - at least beyond the… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Brenna’s eyes widened. Raising a hand, she brushed his hair gently off his forehead. “Why do I keep telling you things I… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves, they've got their own vision, they have their own… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
When I began designing machines I also began to think that these objects, which sit next to each other and around people,… — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
“The relativism which is not willing to speak about truth but only about ‘what is true for me’ is an evasion of… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
[White men] has the audacity to call himself even the "Leader of the Free World" while he has a country that can't… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Do you know what you’ve done?” I asked in a bland tone. Annette gave me an inquiring look. “You’ve gotten on my… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
I like 'nerves'! I like the word 'migraineur'. I like the word 'madness'. These are OK words. The 19th century had a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above… — Max Weber Copy Share Image