Nerves Quotes - Page 5

The problem with deterrence - apparently sometimes forgotten by our former presidents - is that it is not static, but a creature of the moment, captive to impression, and nursed on action, not talk. It must be maintained hourly and can erode or be lost with a single act of failed nerve, despite all the braggadocio of threatened measures. And, once gone, the remedies needed for its restoration are always more expensive, deadly - and controversial - than would have been its simple maintenance.

There's a lot of nerves. It all goes away though once they say "fight".

Do not taste food while you're cooking. You may lose your nerve to serve it.

Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks.

There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.

The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

Every brain is civilized, Every nerve is analyzed, Everything is criticized when you are in need.

I only drink to steady my nerves... sometimes I'm so steady I don't move for months.

If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.

Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.

I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.

I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.

I'm half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all.

A cat is witty, he has nerve, he knows how to do precisely the right thing at the right moment.

The stage is the place I feel comfortable - it's almost as if real life is where I feel most nervous. Conversations are a lot more nerve-wracking.

You can always tell when the relationship is over. Little things start getting on your nerves, 'Would you please stop that! That breathing in and out, it's so repetitious.'

I destroy because for me everything that proceeds from reason is untrustworthy. I believe only in the evidence of what stirs my marrow, not in the evidence of what addresses itself to my reason. I have found levels in the realm of the nerve. I now feel capable of evaluating the evidence. There is for me an evidence in the realm of pure flesh which has nothing to do with the evidence of reason. The eternal conflict between reason and the heart is decided in my very flesh, but in my flesh irrigated by nerves.

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

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.

Having nerves and feeling the pressure just gets you focused and gets your concentration level where it needs to be. I harness that nervous energy into a positive way.

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot.

I should’ve been very cross with Anubis. Kissing me without permission—the nerve!

Saddam Hussein had nerve gas and used it against his own people, he had used chemical weapons against the Iranians and he almost had a nuclear bomb in 1981 and in 1991. And he had been caught with anthrax in 1995 by the UN inspections after denying that he had it.

The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.