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

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising.
Charles Scott Sherrington

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.
Josiah Strong

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

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.
Andrew Greeley

We loved Andy, so we wanted to keep him. He was in both bands, but Nerve Agents broke up.
Brody Armstrong

We see in the electroencephalogram a concomitant phenomenon of the continuous nerve processes which take place in the brain, exactly as the electrocardiogram represents a concomitant phenomenon of the contractions of the individual segments of the heart.
Hans Berger

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
Arthur Conan Doyle

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
Margaret Atwood

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
J. K. Rowling