Nerves Quotes - Page 8

I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.

Once the fifth set comes, it's a matter of nerves.

It is nerve-wracking watching my kids' games.

At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed.

You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at the view.

Recycle those nerves and make them adreneline.

I don't even like money. It just quiets my nerves.

Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.

It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

The most nervous I've ever been was on a 250 pound music video which is the first thing I ever did. And I stepped on there with a directing partner, so I could blame him when everything went tits up. But since then my nerves have incrementally decreased so I'm not plagued by the same sense of nerves as I used to be.

I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

The airman must possess absolutely untroubled nerves.

It was always exciting, but it was also always dangerous. And fear takes a toll finally: when you live in danger from moment to moment, the constant tension becomes very wearying. Every step I took on the roads of Gelderland was nerve-wracking, because I was secretly carrying the very material that could turn out to be my own death warrant.

Doesn't it get on my nerves when people say science doesn't know everything. Science knows it doesn't know everything otherwise it would stop. Just becuase science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy-tale appeals to you.

Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasnt able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.

It gets on my nerves when women take too much time on makeup. You would think after a lifetime they would have the process down to less than 45 minutes!

We Americans commercialize everything. Look at what we did to Christmas. Christmas is Jesus' birthday. Now, I don't know Jesus, but from what I read he was the least materialistic person who ever walked the earth. No bling on Jesus. He kept a low profile and we turned his birthday into the most commercial day of the year. In fact we have a whole Jesus birthday season. And then at the end of it, we have the nerve to have an economist come on TV and say what a horrible Jesus birthday season we had.

He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord.

What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve.

I'm cooler than a polar bear's toenails... bend corners like I was a curve, I struck a nerve.

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

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.

Inject laughter into tense situations to save the day; laughter calms tempers and soothes jangled nerves.

I was sitting on top of people and it was just really uncomfortable. There was no place to move. And, I don't like auditioning, anyways. With auditions, you can get so nervous, or other things get into your head and throw you off, and it doesn't really reflect what you can do, as an actor. The whole thing was just really nerve-wracking, but I ended up getting it.