Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do. (Quote by - Bruce Crampton)

I definitely wanted this win today and I don't want anybody to talk about my nerves anymore. (Quote by - Amelie Mauresmo)

Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth. (Quote by - Mel Gibson)

I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games. (Quote by - Shaquille O'Neal)

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)

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. (Quote by - Temple Grandin)

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over. (Quote by - Alan Rickman)

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you. (Quote by - Stephen Rea)

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves. (Quote by - Ty Cobb)

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)

Putting affects the nerves more than anything. I would actually get nauseated over three-footers. (Quote by - Byron Nelson)

Sweets are good for the nerves. (Quote by - Margarete Bieber)

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. (Quote by - Marsha Norman)

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. (Quote by - Bernard De Voto)

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." (Quote by - Lauren Bacall)

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? (Quote by - Russell Hoban)

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. (Quote by - E. E. cummings)

All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. When she started to laugh, it was like 'That's it!'. I went to LA and I got the part. (Quote by - Ed O'Neill)

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself, and passion has its dreams. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas. (Quote by - Ivan Pavlov)

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. (Quote by - Jiddu Krishnamurti)

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. (Quote by - 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. (Quote by - Robert Browning)

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. (Quote by - Bram Stoker)

Adversity is a severe instructor. ... He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)