“ It was like a physical impact, something vital and quick, happening to us both. And I knew, from that moment, that whatever happened between us, we might disagree, get on each other's nerves, quarrel, do each other harm, but we could never be indifferent. ”
- Conrad Veidt- Copy
- 1.6K
“ The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves. ”
- Wynton Marsalis- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are! ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 141
“ There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself. ”
- Doris Humphrey- Copy
- 4K
“ I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. ”
- e. e. cummings- Copy
- 3K
“ Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life not only decently, but dignifiedly. ”
- George Borrow- Copy
- 2.6K
“ You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
- 1.5K
“ When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? ”
- Russell Hoban- Copy
- 839
“ No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw. ”
- Christy Mathewson- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. ”
- Thomas A. Edison- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure. ”
- Thomas Alva Edison- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The big trick in putting is not method the secret of putting is domination of the nerves. ”
- Henry Cotton- Copy
- 861
“ A little girl can be sweeter (and badder) oftener than anyone else in the world. She can jitter around, and stomp, and make funny noises that frazzle your nerves. ”
- Alan Beck- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening. ”
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin- Copy
- 1.3K
“ When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely — the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it. ”
- J. Krishnamutri- Copy
- 3.1K
“ After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do. ”
- Bruce Crampton- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself, and passion has its dreams. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Many think they have a kind heart who only have weak nerves. ”
- Marie Von Ebner Eschenbach- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Nerves provide me with energy… It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried. ”
- Mike Nichols- Copy
- 843
“ Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away… ”
- Coleman Dowell- Copy
- 1.5K
“ I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim… lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations… ”
- Ezra- Copy
- 127
“ When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely — the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears — when you give your whole attention to it. ”
- Jiddu Krishnamurti- Copy
- 2K
“ If you make films, you're changing rhythm the whole time. You go from a quiet life to an absolutely turbulent life which is typical of moviemaking. And then you get back to your normal life and you have to have nerves of steel. ”
- Geraldine Chaplin- Copy
- 1.1K
“ The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life not only decently, but dignifiedly. ”
- George Borrow- Copy
- 3.5K
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