Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Nerves are good. They keep you alive.
Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity.
Nerves can be useful, as they sharpen you up, make you determined to try your hardest and do your best.
When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?
Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears.
I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.