Nerve Quotes

386 Nerve quotes by 318 unique authors

Ann's got to take her nerve by the horns. — Virginia Wade
Choking is being in a position to win, and then experiencing some critical failure of nerve or spirit. That never happened to me. And I… — Pete Sampras
Just as the education of nerve and sinew is vital to the excellent athlete and education of the mind is vital to the scholar, education… — Stephen Covey
The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a muscle is a… — Charles Scott Sherrington
The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center, — Josiah Strong
The Chinese tell time by 'The Year of the Horse' or 'The Year of the Dragon.' I tell time by 'The Year of the Back'… — Earl Weaver
For those who can do it and who keep their nerve, writing for a living still beats most real, grown-up jobs hands down. — Terence Blacker
The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go - the complexity of these mathematical models is… — Alexander Tsiaras
Losing a position is aggravating, whereas losing your nerve is devastating. — Ed Seykota
Michael Koryta is that rare author who is at once a compelling story teller and a fantastic writer. From the first sentence of THOSE WHO… — Lisa Unger
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve. — Sappho
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a… — Margaret Atwood
Money ... is the nerve center of the economic system. If, therefore, the state is able to gain unquestioned control over the unit of all… — Murray Rothbard
Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever — Howard Fast
Nothing cuts the nerve of the desire to pursue holiness as much as a sense of guilt. On the contrary, nothing so motivates us to… — Jerry Bridges
It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic… — Elihu Root
It takes a lot of nerve to bang your fist and demand tougher juvenile gun laws while doing nothing to enforce the ones that already… — Bill McCollum
Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to… — Alan Watts
Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it. — Itzhak Perlman
Today in the west we are asking the question, why is man unhappy? Answer is very simple. We have created a very fast society but… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
It was man who ended the Cold War in case you didn't notice. It wasn't weaponry, or technology, or armies or campaigns. It was just… — John le Carre
[M]y first published book had just appeared in stores. The last year of my life-the year of finishing it, editing it, and seeing it through… — Tom Bissell
However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of the heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is… — Virgilia Peterson
History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years, only to languish… — Buzz Aldrin
When other people reject positive changes you make for yourself, there is always some nerve to get to the root of in those other people. — Jennifer Hudson

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