Nervous
possessing nerve; sinewy; strong; vigorous.
Possessing or manifesting vigor of mind; characterized by strength in sentiment or style; forcible; spirited; as, a nervous writer.
Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; as, nervous excitement; a nervous fever.
Having the nerves weak, diseased, or easily excited; subject to, or suffering from, undue excitement of the nerves; easily agitated or annoyed.
Sensitive; excitable; timid.
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Nervous Quotations
I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
John F. Kennedy
Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
Elizabeth Taylor
I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.
Elvis Presley
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
Marquis de Sade
My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
Timothy Leary
Pressure is calming to the nervous system.
Temple Grandin
The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
Henry Ellis
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell
I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live.
Greta Garbo
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
Alexander Hamilton
Nervous Translations
nervous in Dutch is zenuwachtig, zenuw-, nerveus
nervous in Hungarian is ideg-
nervous in Italian is nervoso
nervous in Portuguese is nervoso
nervous in Spanish is nervioso
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