Nerves Quotes - page 9

I saw that my face wasn't my face at all but a face that I lived behind and was welded to by a billion nerves. I looked into my eyes and saw that there was something looking back at me that was not me, not what I'd taken to be me. The unrefined ocean beyond the shallow pool was cascading through the mirror back at me. Nature looking at nature. Not me, little ol' Russ, tossed about on turbulent seas; these distinctions were engineered. On acid, these realizations are absolute. The disobedient brain is whipped into its basket like a yapping hound cowed by Cesar Millan. (Russell Brand)
It is not your passing thoughts or brilliant ideas so much as your plain everyday habits that control your life....Live simply. Don't get caught in the machine of the world- it is too exacting. By the time you get what you are seeking your nerves are gone, the heart is damaged, and the bones are aching. Resolve to develop your spiritual powers more earnestly from now on. Learn the art of right living. If you have joy you have everything,so learn to be glad and contented....Have happiness now. View quote
Paramahansa Yogananda
The airman must possess absolutely untroubled nerves. View quote
Francis Collins
I only drink to steady my nerves. Sometimes I'm so steady I don't move for months. View quote
W. C. Fields
Happiness means quiet nerves. View quote
W. C. Fields
Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain. View quote
Bram Stoker
Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although it's not an easy trade - particularly when you're at your galley oar five days a week - it's easier on the nerves and the psyche than living with the brain-squeezing pressure and cares of being the Star. View quote
Dick Cavett
What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body? View quote
Thomas Hobbes
I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied. View quote
John Steinbeck
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity. (Ivan Pavlov)
That pathology is grounded upon the doctrine that all human ills are caused by the pressure of misplaced vertebra upon the nerves which come out of the spinal cord-in other words, that every disease is the result of a pinch. This, plainly enough, is buncombe. The chiropractic therapeutics rest upon the doctrine that the way to get rid of such pinches is to climb upon a table and submit to a heroic pummeling by a retired piano-mover. This, obviously, is buncombe doubly damned. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Our nerves are strong, and we do not base our policy on emotions. View quote
Yuri Andropov
Our ethics and our politics assume, largely without question or serious discussion, that the division between human and 'animal' is absolute. 'Pro-life', to take just one example, is a potent political badge, associated with a gamut of ethical issues such as opposition to abortion and euthanasia. What it really means is pro-human-life. Abortion clinic bombers are not known for their veganism, nor do Roman Catholics show any particular reluctance to have their suffering pets 'put to sleep'. In the minds of many confused people, a single-celled human zygote, which has no nerves and cannot suffer, is infinitely sacred, simply because it is 'human. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Preparedness for a game that usually lasts four-five hours requires good physical condition and also steady nerves. View quote
Viswanathan Anand
I always have a football handy at home, and I'll play with it. Sometimes it'll get on my wife's nerves. But the moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy. View quote
Thierry Henry
My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Our minds are not hopeful, thought Janet; but our nerves are made of optimistic stuff. View quote
Helen Garner
Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves. View quote
Paul Theroux
Motivation'Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent. (Terry McMillan)
Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are. View quote
Marsha Norman
I think it will thrill you. It may shock you. It might even horrify you. So if any of you feel that you do not care to subject your nerves to such a strain, now is your chance to-Well, we warned you. View quote
Garrett Fort
The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves. View quote
Ty Cobb
I care not, Fortune, what you me deny; You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace, You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve. Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave: Of fancy, reason, virtue, naught can me bereave. View quote
James Thomson (poet)