Quotes with nerve

  • In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
  • A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.

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  • Mark Twain Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Helen Rowland A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Helen Rowland A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • J. K. Rowling Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
    J. K. Rowling
    British novelist, screenwriter, and producer (1965 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • J. G. Ballard Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bryan Fuller I think one of the things that was a huge surprise to everyone with 'Silence of the Lambs' was that that was an Oscar-winning horror movie. It struck such a nerve with audiences that it was a very particular, special experience.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; ''Hold on!''
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Les Brown If you do not develop the hunger and courage to pursue your goal, you will lose your nerve and you will give up on your dream.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Christopher Morley In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Is it a fact - or have I dreamt it - that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Alan Alda Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Benjamin Haydon Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Martin Farquhar Tupper Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
    Martin Farquhar Tupper
    English writer and poet (1810 - 1889)
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  • Sir Humphry Davy The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.
    Sir Humphry Davy
    British chemist and inventor
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  • Virginia Woolf Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Bob Dylan You got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down, you just stood there grinning.
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bill Mauldin You've got to be a misanthrope in this business, a real son of a bitch. I'm touchy. I've got raw nerve ends, and I'll jump. If I see a stuffed shirt, I want to punch it.
    As quoted in Hit It If Its Big in TIME magazine (21 July 1961)
    Bill Mauldin
    American cartoonist (1921 - 2003)
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