Nerves Quotes
664 Nerves quotes by 537 unique authors
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God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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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
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when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have…
— Jodi Picoult
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Interesting choice," Sullivan said. He slid his gaze over to Paul, who was drumming his fingers on the table in a manic, caffeine-inspired way and…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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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
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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
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I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.
— John Steinbeck
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I'm so excited that my stomach is in a jiggle-jaggle of nerves. There they go again. Jiggle. Jaggle. I'm a mess.
— Susane Colasanti
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The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it.
— Karen Marie Moning
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Don’t touch me. It makes my skin crawl. (Grace) Grace! I can’t believe you– (Selena) At least she didn’t spit in my face with her…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our…
— George Eliot
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A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.
— Rick Riordan
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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
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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
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
— Alan Furst
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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
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absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird
— Audrey Niffenegger
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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
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He was still stroking the inside of her wrist, his touch doing odd delicious things to her skin and nerves.
— Cassandra Clare
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My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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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
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I could not bear the deep freeze settling around my bones at the thought that yet another attempt to get out of my life alive…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.
— Oscar Wilde
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The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I…
— H.G. Wells
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So, you're worried that a pink dragon will fly over the concent and fart nerve gas on us?
— Neal Stephenson
Who Wrote These Nerves Quotes
537 authors contributed a total of 664 Nerves Quotes, led by these top contributors: