Quotes About Nerve

I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. I guess if I'm forced to find a good side, I'm glad that people are talking about an issue that hasn't really been discussed all that much. I'm glad that people are talking about it from the black perspective and the white perspective.

I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.

I never had the nerve to go up to him. I was quite afraid that if I tried to say, Hello, Reverend Thomas, I would choke on the sin of mocking him.

Each caress leaving my nerve endings feeling as tingly as if they'd just been kissed by a shooting star, landing on my skin and leaving it as glistening as a newly formed galaxy.

Why, you mean you didn't get abducted and dragged across country purely to make us a story for us to chew over endlessly? asked Pip, tossing his shock of tow-colored hair indignantly. The nerve!

It's damage to a nerve. It pretty much shut down the whole lower part of my left leg. I wasn't able to step anymore. It's called foot drop - basically, you can't lift your foot.

A writer who acts as public conscience needs extraordinary nerve and fine instincts, like a boxer. After a time, these instincts inevitably falter. He also needs to be emotionally tough. Camus was not that tough, not tough in the way that Sartre is.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

There are only three principles of warfare: Audacity, Audacity, and AUDACITY!

Every nerve in her body shrieked, then died. She was numb.

Oh, yeah, I did the online dating thing. I did Nerve, I did Match. On Nerve there was this one guy who, when I asked him what he did for a living, said he 'used to be in a band.' I was like, 'That is not an occupation.'

Watching an entrepreneur fail is sad, but watching him fail from lack of nerve is tragic.

Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it.

The intensity of it simply enters your heart and brain and tears every nerve to pieces.

There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.

If a breeze plays lightly on your cheek, it is your Meissner's corpuscles that let you know.*

When you put your hand on a hot plate, your Ruffini corpuscles cry out. Merkel cells respond to constant pressure, Pacinian corpuscles to vibration. Meissner's

Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.

Stefan shook his head. Th' lad's got guts , he thought. Not much sense, but guts.

Yes. Yes, you are right. In the death of the body the nerve endings soon stop feeling. In the death of the will the heart doesn't stop its bleeding so quickly.

Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.

When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments, and the surprises of the Spirit. Evangelical faith is bartered for cozy, comfortable piety. A failure of nerve and an unwillingness to risk distorts God into a bookkeeper, and the gospel of grace is swapped for the security of religious bondage.

I have not suffered any nerve damage, nor have I received any treatment for nerve damage.

The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own most intimate sensitivity." Frost found the experience exhilarating.