Quotes of Nerves - somelinesforyou

“ Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. ”

- Queen Victoria

“ I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves. ”

- Joe E. Lewis

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ The big trick in putting is not method the secret of putting is domination of the nerves. ”

- Henry Cotton

“ Happiness means quiet nerves. ”

- W. C. Fields

“ 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

“ Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening. ”

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“ 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

“ After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ 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

“ 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

“ Many think they have a kind heart who only have weak nerves. ”

- Marie Von Ebner Eschenbach

“ Nerves provide me with energy… It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried. ”

- Mike Nichols

“ Sweets are good for the nerves. ”

- Margarete Bieber

“ Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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
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