Nerve Quotes

386 quotes by 318 authors

The problem with deterrence - apparently sometimes forgotten by our former presidents - is that it is not static, but a creature of the moment,… — Victor Davis Hanson
I'm cooler than a polar bear's toenails... bend corners like I was a curve, I struck a nerve. — Big Boi
If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once. — Hollis Frampton
Lots of small business men have been contacting me to say they wish they had the nerve to say what I said. — David A. Siegel
The only system which is truly secure is one which is switched off and unplugged, locked in a titanium lined safe, buried in a concrete… — Gene Spafford
Everybody thinks of baseball as a sacred cow. When you have the nerve to challenge it, people look down their noses at you. There are… — Curt Flood
Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is the the soul with its… — Michael Leunig
Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, circulation, excretion, cell proliferation,… — Herbert M. Shelton
Donna E. Smyth - adventures with words; she is always doing something new and unique. Beginning with her visceral morality, her stories are startling, nerve… — George Elliott Clarke
In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
The moment you resolve to be victorious, every nerve and fiber in your being will immediately orient itself toward your success. — Daisaku Ikeda
Coach Lombardi had the nerve to draft me number oneAnd I said I have to repay this man for having the nerve to draft me… — Herb Adderley
Ready made opinions can be distributed day by day through the press, radio, and so on, again and again, till they reach the nerve cell… — Joost Meerloo
Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow. — Horace Bushnell
All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve. — Steve Coogan
Progress is the exploration of our own error. Evolution is a consolidation of what have always begun as errors. And errors are of two kinds:… — Jacob Bronowski
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… — Charles Scott Sherrington
It's a great story. It's available for anyone else who wants to try it. We're not brilliant. We're not unbelievable. We're just two people who… — Jerry Moss
We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated… — Alan Watts
It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to head out onto… — Jack Handey

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