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If your Nerve, deny you - Go above your Nerve -- Emily Dickinson
We loved Andy, so we wanted to keep him. He was in both bands, but Nerve Agents broke up. -- Brody Armstrong
Nerve cells communicate with one another at specialized points called synapses. And these synapses are plastic - they can be modified by learning. -- Eric Kandel
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.' -- Julie Klausner
Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. -- J. K. Rowling
I wish I had the nerve not to tip. -- Paul Lynde
You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. -- J. K. Rowling
A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. -- Christopher Morley
It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing. -- Zora Neale Hurston
I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair. -- John Henrik Clarke
The whole bullying issue has really struck a nerve with me. It affects so many different types of people at a vital time in their lives. -- Kenny Wormald
In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it's really uncomfortable for a lot of people. -- Shirley Manson
Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines. -- Paul Brunton
I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me. -- Boz Scaggs
The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is their incredible PR and their nerve. -- Marcia Angell
I'm very shy, and I shy away from people. But the moment I hit the stage, it's a different feeling I get nerve from somewhere; maybe it's because it's something I love to do. -- Ella Fitzgerald
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
The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear. -- Kobe Bryant
I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. -- Quentin Crisp
I never said I was an angel. Nor am I innocent or holy like the Virgin Mary. What I am is natural and serious and as sensitive as an open nerve on an ice cube. -- Sister Souljah
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!' -- Rudyard Kipling
What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people, 'Do they hate him?' That takes a lot of nerve. -- Malcolm X
Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up. -- Maya Angelou
I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve. -- Maya Angelou
The actual organization of behavior goes on the level of the individual nerve cells and their connections, and we have a hundred billion nerve cells, probably a hundred trillion connections. It's just mind-boggling to think of all the different ways in which they're arranged in a baby's head. -- Steven Pinker
The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions. -- Max Weber
Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve. -- Tom Wolfe
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. -- Anne Fortier
I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm too anxious. I don't know how you're not obsessed with how people perceive you, because they're real people, you know? You can convince yourself that they don't really know you, and that's true, but how can it not hurt your feelings? -- Bo Burnham
Auditioning is so nerve-racking. -- Leslie Mann
Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever -- Howard Fast
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I find doing speeches nerve wrecking. -- Kate Middleton
The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking. -- Christina Aguilera
It is nerve-wracking watching my kids' games. -- Michael Jordan
Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow. -- Horace Bushnell
Strain every nerve to gain your point. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I've got enough nerve to do anything! -- Ginger Rogers
What nerve. Not even a modicum of originality. -- Samuel Goldwyn
Anything is possible if you've got enough nerve. -- J. K. Rowling
Ann's got to take her nerve by the horns. -- Virginia Wade
Changes in my personal life are nerve-racking for me. -- Donny Deutsch
The riding of young horses is an excellent nerve tonic. -- Geoffrey Brooke
The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it. -- Karen Marie Moning
Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve. -- Henry David Thoreau
Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence. -- Charles Spurgeon
I find acting slightly nerve racking, but I like the challenge. -- Jane Wiedlin
One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve. -- Iain Banks
there was nothing like necessity to supply a lack of nerve. -- Helen Nielsen
Thelma & Louise' really hit a nerve, and I loved that movie. -- Richard LaGravenese
His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing. -- Lee Trevino
Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence. -- Charles Spurgeon
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. -- Margaret Atwood
One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be. -- Alan Furst
Losing a position is aggravating, whereas losing your nerve is devastating. -- Ed Seykota
I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. -- Kathryn Stockett
Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain. -- Horace Mann
Im a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. -- Kathryn Stockett
absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird -- Audrey Niffenegger
It's nerve wracking being in the stadium with so many people supporting. -- Yohan Blake
I should've been very cross with Anubis. Kissing me without permission"?the nerve! -- Rick Riordan
The future should be exciting, you know? It shouldn't be a nerve-wracking experience. -- Brendon Urie
You will never lose your nerve. Your life, probably, but never your nerve. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve. -- Buzz Aldrin
Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it. -- Itzhak Perlman
Footage of young people getting shot. That bothers me. It hits a nerve. -- Sasha Grey
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom. -- Mark Twain
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I think genius can have a lot to do with nerve. And permission. -- Kate Zambreno
A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve. -- Rick Riordan
A husband is what's left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed. -- Lou Costello
The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it. -- Jackie Vernon
I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve -- Alan Ladd
The clitoris contains 8,000 nerve endings. It makes it easy to have sex. With yourself. -- Dannii Minogue
I feel like, like pudding," Iggy groaned. "Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain. -- James Patterson
It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting 'Saturday Night Live.' You either sink or swim. -- Christina Aguilera
Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Magnus, I wish I had the nerve to wear the kind of pants you do. -- Cassandra Clare
I wish that the act of publishing a book was less of a nerve-wracking experience. -- Charlie Huston
The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center, -- Josiah Strong
The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center. -- Josiah Strong
Do not taste food while you're cooking. You may lose your nerve to serve it. -- Phyllis Diller
I gave to pink, the nerve of the red, a neon pink, an unreal pink. -- Elsa Schiaparelli
There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning. -- Henry David Thoreau
It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane. -- John Steinbeck
Being on the red carpet is both fun and a little nerve wracking, but more fun. -- Brad Goreski
He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Here is the thing about Donald Trump. Donald Trump is hitting a nerve in this country. -- John Kasich
Why had he never appreciated the miracle that he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart? -- J. K. Rowling
Every brain is civilized, Every nerve is analyzed, Everything is criticized when you are in need. -- Bob Dylan
If people don't like you, it doesn't matter how much uniqueness, nerve or talent you have! -- Manila Luzon
Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve. -- Robert Redford
It's nerve-wracking singing in front of people. I think that's why most people get drunk for karaoke. -- Emily Blunt
It's always a little nerve-wracking to do a love scene, more than anything because it's just awkward. -- Annie Parisse
You should always view any job as just as nerve-wracking or just as exciting as any other. -- Giles Matthey
At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed. -- Maile Meloy
I had an alarm, I had nerve gas, I had a yogurt. What more could anyone want? -- Janet Evanovich
But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird. -- Audrey Niffenegger
The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time. -- Shania Twain
So, you're worried that a pink dragon will fly over the concent and fart nerve gas on us? -- Neal Stephenson
My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain. -- Oscar Wilde
In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated. -- Santiago Ramon y Cajal
I'm cooler than a polar bear's toenails... bend corners like I was a curve, I struck a nerve. -- Big Boi
I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies -- Joy Harjo
The first time I was flown to L.A. for a screen test was an incredibly nerve-racking experience. -- Luke Evans
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve. -- Sappho
In saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity. -- Gelsey Kirkland
Life with three daughters can be nerve-wracking, but it's amazing to be loved by so many different women. -- Laird Hamilton
All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve. -- Steve Coogan
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
I've been in a talent show, yeah. They are terrifying. The most nerve-wracking experience of your life, I'd say. -- David Walton
I usually have a drink before a carpet because I find them really nerve-racking. Usually a tequila. An upper! -- Bella Heathcote
Knowing the truth is so minuscule compared to having the nerve to say itand even more to live it. -- Criss Jami
The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve. -- Marjorie Benton Cooke
Knowing the truth is so minuscule compared to having the nerve to say it...and even more to live it. -- Criss Jami
The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten. -- Mike Mills
The body's a mirror of heaven: Its energies make angels jealous. Our purity astounds seraphim. Devils shiver at our nerve. -- Rumi
I never thought people would buy the soundtrack [to Twilight]. So, it's a little more nerve-wracking now. I don't know. -- Robert Pattinson
Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve. -- Rodney Crowell

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