Nerve Quotes

386 Nerve quotes by 318 unique authors

I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and… — W. Somerset Maugham
At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed. — Maile Meloy
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to… — Novalis
I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look… — Chuck Palahniuk
You just go on your nerve. — Frank O'Hara
In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free… — Mary Roach
But then, his revenge had been more direct. He’d hunted down the ones who’d killed his sister and nephew – those who’d survived his mother’s… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put… — Aristotle
The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it. — Karen Marie Moning
A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve. — Rick Riordan
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! — Rick Riordan
I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how to become a professional writer. I say to you,… — Kurt Vonnegut
One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be. — Alan Furst
Okay, okay, backing off. Um, I suppose this would be a bad time to ask you to talk to Pete for me, you know, about… — Jennifer Rardin
absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird — Audrey Niffenegger
But the question that everyone wanted answered was whether I would have the nerve and the strength to start the whole process from scratch. I… — Werner Herzog
We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of… — Thomas Merton
My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain. — Oscar Wilde
So, you're worried that a pink dragon will fly over the concent and fart nerve gas on us? — Neal Stephenson
She moved nearer, leaned her shoulder against me — and we were one, and something flowed from her into me, and I knew: this is… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now… — Charles Frazier
and you come away with a great little story of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you — Taylor Swift
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. — Don DeLillo
Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure… — Audrey Niffenegger
As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose their nerve, wrestling… — Helen Fielding

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