Quotes about Nervous
There is something about the Sermon on the Mount that makes Christians nervous, and in particular it makes Protestants nervous, especially those whose theology's first foot is a special understanding of grace.
- Scot McKnight
We ain't nervous folk, as you know well; but when it comes to makin' a weekend visit and finding you've run full butt into the Day of Judgement, it wants a bit of explainin'.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Like all men with a faculty that surpasses human requirements, his father was very nervous. Then, too, he was sentimental, and, like most sentimental people, he was both cruel and abused. Also, he had much bad luck, and it was not all of it his own. He had died in a trap that he had helped only a little to set, and they had all betrayed him in their various ways before he died. All sentimental people are betrayed so many times. Nick could not write about him yet, although he would, later
- Ernest Hemingway
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
Passion makes most psychiatrists nervous
- Joseph Campbell
I was really nervous working with actors, since I come from a photography background.
- Gia Coppola
Yeah, I obviously do get nervous before the matches. I obviously have butterflies. I obviously want to do well.
- Sofia Kenin
On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.
- Charles Stanley