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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. -- Queen Victoria
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. -- Edmund Burke
Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch. -- W. C. Fields
Nerves and butterflies are fine - they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's the trick. -- Steve Bull
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. -- Alan Watts
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. -- Swami Vivekananda
Nerves just mean that you care. -- Evan Peters
Nerves are good. They keep you alive. -- Idina Menzel
Nerves are normal. You can't be cured from them unless you're a machine. -- Venus Williams
Nerves are natural, it means you're ready to face a challenge and perform. -- Dan Carter
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. -- Emily Dickinson
Test of Metal: Will of Iron, Nerves of Steel, Heart of Gold, Balls of Brass. -- George Carlin
Nerves can be useful, as they sharpen you up, make you determined to try your hardest and do your best. -- Stephen Cole
Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried. -- Mike Nichols
Nerves, stress and the pressure to perform are a part of life. You don't have to conquer these feelings; just learn to live with them. -- Eric Whitacre
I don't care what the situation was, how high the stakes were - the bases could be loaded and the pennant riding on every pitch, it never bothered Whitey. He pitched his game. Cool. Craft. Nerves of steel. -- Mickey Mantle
Nerves," Mik told Karou."Bad?""Terrible." Stepping up behind Zuzana, he bent down to enfold her in a spoon-hugFerociously, dreadfully awful. She's unbearable. You take her. I've had enough."Zuzana batted at him, then squealed as he buried his face in the curve of her throat and made exaggerated kissing noises." -- Laini Taylor
You get steely nerves playing poker. -- Nate Silver
Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves. -- Paul Theroux
Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. -- J. K. Rowling
Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves. -- Gabby Douglas
I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears. -- Tori Spelling
Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over. -- Alan Rickman
I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves. -- Joe E. Lewis
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. -- Margaret Atwood
Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence. -- Charles Spurgeon
I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else. -- Eric Clapton
There's always a bit of nerves that come with expectations and new situations. -- Brendon Urie
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom. -- Mark Twain
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli
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
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. -- Edmund Burke
I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down. -- Novak Djokovic
I definitely wanted this win today and I don't want anybody to talk about my nerves anymore. -- Amelie Mauresmo
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Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman gets on my nerves.' -- Len Goodman
I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. -- e. e. cummings
The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect. -- Sam Ewing
I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot. -- Rose Leslie
The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves. -- Pixie Lott
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 trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy. -- Shawn Johnson
Personally, I think I am much calmer under incredibly stressful situations, and I've learned to deal with pressure and nerves, which is key to being a performer of any caliber. -- James Wolpert
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. -- Thierry Henry
In the case of the stomach, however, the nerves of the glandular cells were always severed when constructing an artificially isolated pouch and this, naturally, affected the normal work of the stomach. -- Ivan Pavlov
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty. -- Herbert Gold
But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again. -- Robert Browning
I have been on the same dose of anti-depressants for 15 years, and my nerves still go up and down in cycles; but my nerves are cycling at a lower level than they were before. -- Temple Grandin
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
Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have. -- Ariel Sharon
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. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. -- Virginia Woolf
I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look. -- Lauren Bacall
However spontaneous I hope a photograph will look, I always put a lot of thought into how I can make it happen. The very best pictures are the most relaxed, so a lot of fussing around technically can completely break the spell, and everyone freezes up with nerves. -- Mario Testino
Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads. -- Fritz Kreisler
Happiness means quiet nerves. -- W. C. Fields
Being unprepared heightens nerves. -- James Galway
My main weakness is nerves. -- Megan Fox
My nerves could use a drink. -- Grace Kelly
Recycle those nerves and make them adreneline. -- Katy Perry
The airman must possess absolutely untroubled nerves. -- Francis Collins
One must read poetry with one's nerves. -- Wallace Stevens
I don't have principles. I have nerves. -- Joseph Brodsky
Nothing is harder on the nerves than hope. -- Forrest Carr
I have no nerves, no emotion, no pressure. -- Eileen Collins
It takes nerves of steel to stay neurotic. -- Herb Kelleher
If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport. -- Shawn Johnson
I suffer a lot with nerves and stage fright. -- Sheridan Smith
You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain. -- Jerry Lee Lewis
All of your quotes are getting on my nerves. -- Peter Burke
Let's hope his nerves will run through his veins. -- John McEnroe
Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Stop being so" optimistic. It's getting on my nerves. -- Stephenie Meyer
Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves. -- Joe Louis
The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves. -- Boris Becker
Once the fifth set comes, it's a matter of nerves. -- Pete Sampras
I think it's healthy to be insecure, to have nerves. -- Julia Sawalha
Forgive me. I can no longer live with my nerves. -- Jean Seberg
I don't even like money. It just quiets my nerves. -- Joe Louis
Everybody just gets on my nerves after like, 10 minutes, you know. -- Mat Johnson
Every athlete acquires routines as a way to help control nerves. -- Hope Solo
The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves. -- Ty Cobb
Nothing is more trying than nerves to people who have none. -- Ellen Glasgow
With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy. -- Mia Wasikowska
I don't like money very much, but it calms my nerves. -- Joe Louis
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A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves. -- Renee Fleming
The bigger the crowd the better really! The noise calms your nerves. -- Niall Horan
Alcohol is perfect for me to curb the nerves a little bit. -- Luke Bryan
New York is too strenuous for me; it gets on my nerves. -- Ambrose Bierce
Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces. -- Jane Austen
My nerves will come when I have to take off my top. -- Angel Porrino
The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
You could at least complain," say. "I adore complaining. It calms the nerves. -- Franny Billingsley
To control your nerves, you must have a positive thought in your mind. -- Byron Nelson
The reason fat people are happy is that the nerves are well protected. -- Luciano Pavarotti
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. -- Bernard DeVoto
I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends. -- Jane Austen
Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away. -- Thia Megia
I just grate on my own nerves. I don't like to watch me. -- Megan Fox
I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man! -- Wilkie Collins
There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves. -- Kirby Larson
There's a lot of nerves. It all goes away though once they say "fight". -- Rory MacDonald
They say nerves heal real slowly. Lots of things about us heal real slowly. -- Buck Brannaman
My toes are all squished. During an operation, they had to take nerves out. -- Steven Tyler
Putting affects the nerves more than anything. I would actually get nauseated over three-footers. -- Byron Nelson
There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump. -- Arnold Bennett
My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt. -- Swami Vivekananda
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves -- Queen Victoria
Fatigue roughens up the edges of your nerves; it exposes your fears and your weaknesses. -- June Havoc
Winter dawn is the color of metal, The trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves. -- Sylvia Plath
Taking drugs to overcome nerves is the thin edge of the wedge going in there. -- James Galway
Let's be honest: Isn't a lot of what we call tap dancing really just nerves? -- Jack Handey
The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men. -- Minot Judson Savage
I love energy and people; gosh I love people even when they got on my nerves. -- Ledisi
I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied. -- John Steinbeck
A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves. -- David Bronstein
I only drink to steady my nerves... sometimes I'm so steady I don't move for months. -- W. C. Fields

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