Quotes About Nerve

The thief's underworld, which is different from that of the mafiosi, gang bangers, and racketeers, has many adages and observations. If you can't do the time don't mess with crime is the best-known. Another is: A thief's nerve is in direct proportion to his financial condition. Or: Hard times make hard people.

But the pain—" he said. "Pain," she sniffed. "A human can override any nerve in the body.

A human can override any nerve in the body.

Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic training nor the passion for cool logic - not to mention the nerve - to follow in the footsteps of classical liberal philosophers and economists such as Robert Nozick, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman.

If you've got plenty of nerve, you're all set, because then you're entitled to do practically anything at all, you've got the majority on your side, and it's the majority who decide what's crazy and what isn't.

the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!

My mother knows how to hit a nerve. And the pain I feel is worse than any other kind of misery. Because what she does always comes as a shock, exactly like an electric jolt, that grounds itself permanently in my memory.

Courage is exhilarating.

In India you clawed your way through the day, through dirt and glamour and people who seemed to strip the skin off your bones when they dealt with you, leaving every nerve raw. Here it was all so much more courteous even at its worst, hushed, gentler. They spoke to you with a respect that wrapped you in cotton wool. You didn't feel that every man coveted your property or your self-respect or was otherwise desperately straining to find ways to humble you.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

The Max Clifford case shows that when the police and prosecutors quietly hold their nerve they can succeed, whatever the public profile or popularity of the accused.

the illusion of the artistic rendering of a nerve stimulus into images is, if not the mother, then at least the grandmother of every concept. In

His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.

It was her "kind of nerve," her ability to transcend her fears, of all sorts, that marked her.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer...an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.

Some people have more guts than brains.

I've never lacked guts, for good or bad.

Working on 'The War Room' was a thrill, not only because we were given such exquisite access to the nerve center of Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign, but for me personally, it was so exciting to be producing my first film and working with documentary filmmaking legends D.A. Pannebaker and Chris Hegedus, who were the film's directors.

It would be thrilling if I could be boycotted or something. I think that's part of the thrill Madonna gets, when you know you've hit a nerve. But that doesn't scare me. To me what would be a lot scarier would be like appearing on an episode of 'Full House' or something.

I would say darts is probably 15 per cent throwing. The rest of it is mental strength. Being able to hold your nerve.

A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws light on the mind/brain problem will have to incorporate the deepest insights of biologists, nerve scientists, psychologists, physiologists, linguists, social scientists, and even philosophers.

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?

He was convinced that men lost their nerve in combat when they allowed themselves to think too much. The part movies never got right about war was all the waiting, and all the effort it took not to think.

but the outcome of the battle depended on nerve as much as resources.