Best 310 quotes in «nervous quotes» category

Nervousness made her feel nauseous, almost like she had two hearts frantically beating in her chest, instead of one.

Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.

Nervous people tend to overreact.

Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able, - to dress and entertain, and order things

Ready? It doesn’t matter. The world is changed by people who aren’t ready.

They were obviously all feeling a bit jumpy. The coffee probably didn’t help, although some of them swore they needed it. Craved it was more like it.

The world is changed by people who aren’t ready.

To be nervous is to lose half the battle; to be nervous is to burn mental energy to no useful purpose.

Unnerved, the nerve, you're nervous, nervous that I'm right.

When I opened the door, Andrew was standing there like a remedy for heart palpitations. Or maybe he made them worse. It was hard to tell.

They saw me. Milton's smile curled off his face like unsticky tape. And I knew immediately, I was a boy band, a boondoggle, born fool. He was going to pull a Danny Zuko in Grease when Sandy says hello to him in front of the T-Birds, a Mrs. Robinson when she tells Elaine she didn't seduce Benjamin, a Daisy when she chooses Tom with the disposition of a sour kiwi over Gatsby, a self-made man, a man engorged with dreams, who didn't mind throwing a pile of shirts around a room if he wanted too. My heart landslided. My legs earthquaked.

When they got to their hotel she went straight up to bed, but he paused to get a drink. There was, in the vestibule, a flower stall and he bought a handful of roses, stiffly wired into a bouquet, before proceeding to the oppressive gorgeousness of their bridal suite. The lift was lined with looking glass, so that as he shot upwards he got an endlessly duplicated version of himself, stout and nervous, a light cloak flung over his shoulder and flowers in his hand: an infinitely long row of gentlemen carrying offerings to an unforgiving past.

Why am I so awkward? I groan to my flats as I pull them on and rush out the door.

When you feel nervous, recall your pride.

This is the hour I hide everything Behind my eyes To see if you can see All the trouble my brain's been brewing. Yes, I feel I am the worst and you are the best And yet, and yet, Nothing bad unfolds as we sit, Young and nervous, Alive and bursting, With futures that may not entwine. Who am I? Who am I to sabotage what may be too small For even chaos to notice And disassemble?

Worry wasn’t an emotion to which he was particularly accustomed—and it worried him.

A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.

all tamed animals are nervous, we have given them reason to be, not only by cruelty but by our love too, that presses upon them. They have not been able to be entirely indifferent to this and untouched by it.

Actually, fish are very sensitive creatures with highly developed nervous systems. They feel pain acutely. If they weren't able to feel pain, they, like us, could not have survived as a species. Their nervous systems, like ours, secrete opiate-like, pain-dampening biochemicals in response to pain.

American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.

All the forces that we see in nature, such as gravitation, attraction, and repulsion, or as thought, feeling, and nervous motion - all these various forces resolve into that Prana, and the vibration of the Prana ceases. In that state it remains until the beginning of the next cycle. Prana then begins to vibrate, and that vibration acts upon the Akasha, and all these forms are thrown out in regular succession.

Am I nervous? Yeah. Am I scared? Sure. But I do this because I love it.

Any attempt to reduce the complex properties of biological organisms or of nervous systems or of human brains to simple physical and chemical systems is foolish.

Anyone who sets foot into the Watchmen universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered Watchmen to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.

Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.

Anyone who hasn't been nervous, or hasn't choked somewhere down the line, is an idiot.

All in all, the framers would probably agree that it's better to impeach too often than too seldom. If presidents can't be virtuous, they should at least be nervous.

Anyone who tells you they're not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I'm afraid they're not telling you the whole story.

Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond?

Are you asking me to undress, Tris?' A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially

As a part owner, I'm going to be not only an admirer... but a nervous wreck.

Because of the movies I make, people get nervous. They think of me as difficult and angry. I am difficult and angry, but they don't expect a sense of humor. And the only thing that gets me through is a sense of humor.

Being nervous actually kept me very tense.

Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.

Being nervous, first of all, puts you at a distinct disadvantage, and if you've really prepared and if you've really thought through how to start the conversation, things start to fall into place. There are other things I get nervous about, but not that.

Being nervous is a waste of time.

Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk.

Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.

A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".

But what a little I can get down into my pen of what is so vivid to my eyes, and not only to my eyes; also to some nervous fibre, or fanlike membrane in my species.

Coaches do get very nervous.

Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.

But that day I was anxious. I was nervous and worried, uneasy and distracted. I paced around and never felt settled. I didn't care for the sensation, yet I realized it was possibly a natural progression of my evolving soul, and therefore I tried my best to embrace it.

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.

Culture now spreads at central nervous system speed. It’s a shame that compassion doesn’t.

Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.

Did you hear about the dog that was so high-strung, he developed a nervous tick?

Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.

Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous.

Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.