I'll try and get through as much as my voice and nerves and knees will let me.
but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.
You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at the view.
While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that if irony serves as a retreat from an emotional engagement that you're overly concerned is uncool, that's a failure of nerve.
They say nerves heal real slowly. Lots of things about us heal real slowly.
Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause.
The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking.
We will pursue them until they lose their nerves. . . Now that they have indulged in their evil and crimes, they will suffer a defeat.
You just go on your nerve.
The airman must possess absolutely untroubled nerves.
I've got enough nerve to do anything!
You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused.
Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.
That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel.
I love energy and people; gosh I love people even when they got on my nerves.
One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
Happiness means quiet nerves.
New York is too strenuous for me; it gets on my nerves.
It is nerve-wracking watching my kids' games.
Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.