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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
Zora Neale Hurston
I have the audacity to blaze my own trail, however difficult, in pursuit of truthfulness, rather than jumping aboard the unsteady chariot of false hopes.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
Queen Victoria
Stupendous occurrences leave me hushed and serene; it is only insignificant matters that disturb my nerves.
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American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.
Joseph McCarthy
American existence in bustling cities, is an unending onslaught of stimulation and stress; we tolerate it out of self-denial, away from materialism, precisely.
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It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.
Georgia O'Keeffe
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I gave to pink, the nerve of the red, a neon pink, an unreal pink.
Elsa Schiaparelli
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It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.
Anna Pavlova
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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
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It's definitely nerve-racking to be the center of attention. I'm not the kind of an actor that just craves attention 24-7 - but it's part of the deal. You're the leader on the set
Jon Hamm
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It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
Adrienne Rich
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Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit.
S. D Gordon
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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
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It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting "Saturday Night Live." You either sink or swim.
Christina Aguilera
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Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves.
Joe Louis
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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
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In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated.
Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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All of your quotes are getting on my nerves.
Peter Burke
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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
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Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.
W. C. Fields
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Every day kill just one, rather than today five, tomorrow ten . . . that is enough for you. Then your nerves are calm and you can sleep good, you have your drink in the evening and the next morning you are fit again.
Erich Hartmann
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The only system which is truly secure is one which is switched off and unplugged, locked in a titanium lined safe, buried in a concrete bunker, and is surrounded by nerve gas and very highly paid armed guards. Even then, I wouldn't stake my life on it.
Gene Spafford
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The trick is to smoke a cigarette to calm your nerves and then take a big swig of strong liquor to tone your muscles.
Lev Yashin
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The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.
Maria Mitchell
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It's pretty much a fact that our entire universe is a mental construct. We don't actually deal with reality directly. We simply compose a picture of reality from what's going on in our retinas, in the timpani of our ears, and in our nerve endings.
Alan Moore
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I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.
Novak Djokovic
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Our success was mainly due to the fact that we stimulated the nerves of animals that easily stood on their own feet and were not subjected to any painful stimulus either during or immediately before stimulation of their nerves.
Ivan Pavlov
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I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was just short.
Florence King
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We have the power, knowledge, and equipment to build a world beyond our wonder. Only loss of nerve can defeat us.
James Dillet Freeman
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A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.
David Bronstein
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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 intimate sensitivity.
Anne Truitt
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I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never.
Evel Knievel
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Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.
Ivan Pavlov
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I'm a Pilates person. It's great. I had a hip problem. I had a chronic back, a pinched nerve and a hip problem and it's completely solved all of it. I love it. It makes me feel like I'm taller.
Jennifer Aniston
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Pressure on nerves causes irriatation and tension with deranged functions as a result. Why not release the pressure? Why not adjust the cause instead of treating the effects? Why not?
Daniel D. Palmer
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I have the most perfect belly button. When I stick my fingers in it, I feel a nerve in the center of my body shoot up my spine.
Madonna Ciccone
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Heroin spread that soft blanket over everything. But once the blanket was ripped off, it took a layer of skin with it, leaving nothing but nerve ends screaming in the breeze.
Jerry Stahl
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Phrenology is the study of the brain or how it operates, you know, the particular components that effect the nerves and the thought process, and the study of the size of the head. We just wanted to tie it into subject matters.
Black Thought
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Look at it this way: There are many here among us for whom the life force is best represented by the livid twitching of one tortured nerve, or even a full-scale anxiety attack. I do not subscribe to this point of view 100 percent, but I understand it, have lived it. Thus the shriek, the caterwaul, the chainsaw gnarlgnashing, the yowl and the whizz that decapitates may be reheard by the adventurous or emotionally damaged as mellifluous bursts of unarguable affirmation.
Lester Bangs
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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
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I don't like money very much, but it calms my nerves.
Joe Louis
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No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw.
Christy Mathewson
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Stop being so… optimistic. It’s getting on my nerves.
Stephenie Meyer
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Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Projecting from it are millions of fragile sensory nerve fibers, in groups uniquely adapted to sample the energetic states of the world around us: heat, light, force, and chemical composition. That is all we ever know of it directly; all else is logical inference.
Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle
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You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin
Bob Dylan
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The reason fat people are happy is that the nerves are well protected.
Luciano Pavarotti
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Physical pain is not a simple affair of an impulse, travelling at a fixed rate along a nerve. It is the resultant of a conflict between a stimulus and the whole individual.
Rene Leriche
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I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.
James Dickey