Nerves Quotes - Page 13

It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched.

there was nothing like necessity to supply a lack of nerve.

You have to control the nerves. I used to get so nervous that I couldn't eat, which wasn't really productive. Having goals and a plan is a good way of lessening the nerves.

If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it’s like his nerves are a piece of rubber that has been stretched out. It’s hard to go back to the original shape.

The ubiquity of the Divine presence is the only true support, and I am sometimes astonished how persons, who evidently do not possess that grand source of consolation, keep up their spirits under trials and difficulties. It must be owing to careless tempers and nerves of brass.

My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.

You should always view any job as just as nerve-wracking or just as exciting as any other.

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.

The riding of young horses is an excellent nerve tonic.

You could at least complain,” I say. “I adore complaining. It calms the nerves.

When you've got a date on your calendar saying that you will be putting this in front of people in four weeks, that will get your nerves good, yeah.

Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences unless she was convinced there was no danger of a satisfactory solution; then she strained every nerve in the cause of peace.

The statistics reveal a failure of nerve on the part of many Christians. They seem to be simply unable to muster the strength necessary to develop a tenacious commitment to the truthfulness of Scripture.

It's so nerve-wracking to go out into a stadium, feeling a billion eyes upon you when you mess up your touches. That's an overwhelming environment.

our nerve filaments twitch with its presence day and night, nothing we say has not the husky phlegm of it in the saying, nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

Lots of small business men have been contacting me to say they wish they had the nerve to say what I said.

We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves.

The moment you resolve to be victorious, every nerve and fiber in your being will immediately orient itself toward your success.

The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking.

I had a turnover and three missed shots down the stretch. I just have to make sure I calm my nerves.

I really feel vulnerable when I don't have the answer to something. When I feel lack of control, my nerves really kick in.

I wish that the act of publishing a book was less of a nerve-wracking experience.

Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

Magnus, I wish I had the nerve to wear the kind of pants you do.

He was still stroking the inside of her wrist, his touch doing odd delicious things to her skin and nerves.