#nerve

Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life. ↗

— R.A. Salvatore

#discipline #emotional #humiliation #life #paralyzing

I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited. A phase of my life was closing tonight, a new one opening tomorrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accomplished. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#excitement #nerves #change

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#amiable #being #day #destroys #every

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

#any #bold #doubt #embark #ever

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

#boils #brought #careers #demands #edge

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

#crowd #depend #him #imagines #man

A husband is what's left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed. ↗

— Lou Costello

#been #husband #killed #left #nerve

The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves. ↗

— Henry Cotton

#domination #method #nerves #putting #secret

So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end. ↗

— Irene Dunne

#day #different #different people #end #me

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

#between #collect #deficit #difference #government