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Strain every nerve to gain your point.

Cicero

If the Kosovo issue was settled, ... it would remove the last raw nerve, the last crisis hot spot in this part of Europe.

Stipe Mesic

This is a little bit nerve-wracking, although it's exciting.

Doug Mccuistion

Everybody knows you have to buy low and sell high but it's hard to do that. You have to have nerve to do that.

Pat Jennerjohn

This one was a little less nerve-wracking. I knew if I could get to 17-under, it should be enough.

Lee Williamson

It's nerve-racking. He hits, and he misses, but he'll always take his shots no matter. But he hits a lot of them, so it's OK.

Caleb Koke

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

Every day brings something new ... from the nerve wracking to the mundane.

Bill Cooper

Why would pediatricians now want to continue injecting children with a known nerve poison?

Alan Clark

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

Horace Bushnell

It was nerve-racking. There are a hundred thoughts going through your head because you're playing the best in the world.

Iain Sebastian

It is going to require a lot of nerve to sell short in this market. The fundamentals are supportive and inventories are falling.

Angus Macmillan

It's all happening kind of fast. It's amazing the response we've gotten. It shows that all this has hit a raw, patriotic nerve, and we're attracting a cross-section of America -- everyone from CEOs to coal miners and aerospace engineers to corner-garage mechanics.

Kurt Mayer

It was really nerve-wracking, but I just put it aside. I knew I could come back and get out of it.

Melisa Ryba

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's why it's nerve-wracking; you've just got to sit there. As a coach, you're helpless. There's nothing you can do, but it's fun.

Arthur Albiero

I tried a little too hard on my beam mount. It was a little nerve-racking falling so early in the routine, but I had to come back and hit (it). That fall was just a fluke.

Nastia Liukin

It was a bit nerve-wracking but a lot of fun.

Stephen Morris

It was nerve-wracking in the beginning, especially when they had the lead almost the entire game. I was kind of nervous toward the end ... but I got it, I scored and we won.

Gaby Bussell

It was my first action. It was nerve-wracking, being a freshman and getting into that game. It was definitely an experience -- one of the best atmospheres I've been in, ... Just to see them on TV all the time, the whole thing it got to me a little bit, I won't lie.

Anthony Russo

Communication is really the nerve system of an effective process.

Sen Donald Defronzo

The idea is that whenever you have a broken nerve connection, you can supply the electrical impulse to complete the circuit.

Robert West

The nerve of them makes your blood boil.

Brandon Graham

It was a little nerve-racking. Now I have sympathy for the average European blues band coming over here.

Michael Gray

She attacks our nerve endings, with a fierce attentiveness and an almost moral tone.

Bernard Holland

It was nerve-wracking, especially at the end.

Deanna Henriott

It didn't matter. As long as they said our names. But it was a little nerve-wracking at first.

Tara Walker

The game was in Middletown's hands. But we took it [back] from them. It was very nerve-racking, but we were not going home in the quarterfinals.

Brittany Bell

It's coming from a nerve in my back. We'll see. It's day to day.

Peja Stojakovic

It's pretty nerve-racking. You work most of your life for a goal, and to have that in someone else's control and have someone else making the decision is difficult.

Casey Daigle

Cesar lost his nerve. He saw time being wasted and he simply didn't control his impulses.

Victor Munoz

It's a little nerve-racking watching the last couple of races go. All I could do was sit there and watch.

Kristina Groves

It was really nerve-wracking. You never knew what was going to happen next.

Ashley Hill

A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.

Helen Rowland

Sure it's nerve-wracking when it's so close. But you get used to them and compete.

Bubba Scott

I think that hit a nerve with a lot of folks who felt that it was unfair.

Geoff Paddock

We want to be where the politicians are and where the voters are. I love being in Washington [D.C.]; it's often the nerve center. But now the nerve center has moved.

Paul Begala

At the beginning of the season it was nerve-racking. I couldn't get open.

Jay Sears

It was nerve-racking because if you make a mistake, you're done.

Dominik Jakubek

You could tell when the kids almost spelled it. It was a little nerve-racking.

Kathy Long

I thought of my mother's courage and her nerve.

Robert Nolan

It was nerve-racking. I wanted to get it over with.

Brianna Williams

All sorts of thoughts go through your head, 'this can't be happening to us, we don't deserve this' but Hoggy held his nerve and when you are out there you do feel you are in control.

Ashley Giles

I think the guy (Waldman) had a lot of nerve to stand up there in front of us -- I sort of admire him for it. Microsoft and Apple have to get along, that's what the industry needs.

Don Carnahan

It has touched a nerve.

Steve Bonney

Ireland however came down to a test of nerve and without a doubt, the experience of winning in China gave me the inner belief to go on and lift the title.

Stephen Dodd

It was all very nerve-racking.

Bill Telepan

We've hit upon a raw patriotic nerve in Americans searching for a way to identify with those who are supporting and defending our freedoms.

Kurt Mayer

We found they could be induced to mature into nerve cells, hair follicles, muscle cells and gut endoderm cells. And when cultured in lab dishes, the cells differentiated, or matured, into the three major basic types of cell.

Kevin Eggan

He had a pinched nerve and some muscle spasms, but he's doing fine. We expect to have him back in two weeks.

Judd Boswell

He got me right where there's a nerve, and my hand just popped open.

Miguel Ojeda

When you had chicken pox, the virus didn't go away. It went up and went to sleep in the nerve cells that allow you to feel in your skin.

Michael Oxman

It is more nerve-wracking going in there than going out to bat. At least you have an idea what to expect then, but today I just didn't know what to expect when I first went into that room.

Brian Bell

There's a bit of a danger with dance music that you can create something that's cool but doesn't have much substance to it. Every few months, a club record comes along that hits a nerve with people, and they connect to it. They don't know why, but there is something magical in it.

Stuart Price

A year from now, people will look back and say that was nerve-racking, but it was worth it.

Renae Dreier

It's a little nerve-racking even though it's exciting.

Doug Mccuistion

Immediately after the injury, nerve cells inside die and others lose their ability to pass on signals.

Aileen Anderson

This has struck a nerve. Thousands of them.

Terry Jorde

The worst, best, most nerve-racking game I was ever involved in.

Keith Hernandez

It was nerve-racking, but I'll take it. We were doing the right thing, making the right move.

Todd Bodine

When you're on the green you can control it yourself. When you are just watching it, it's really nerve wracking.

Annika Sorenstam

I am not a performer at heart, so the auditions were a little nerve racking.

Amanda Bower

It was very nerve-racking watching all the way down to the last bracket. It's great that this has happened. We want to be the target. I know we can handle it.

Brandie Hoskins

He [Bowman] persisted for that narrow gap in the straight. There was certainly nothing wrong with his nerve.

Ray Murrihy

Some animals have a lot of nerve - they get caught in my teeth!

Craig Bruce

It was so nerve-racking. But we have worked too hard in the season to just give it up then and we ... weren't going to let it happen.

Bailey Hansen

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve centre of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

Howard Thurman

They (Batavia) cut it to two in the second quarter and it got a little nerve racking, but we got our adrenaline going and our game going.

Bailey Hansen

We wanted out. It was enough. That was an experience. It was nerve-wracking to us and to everybody else on the boat.

Dr. Sharon Levy

If a competent amateur can hold his nerve and get the rub of the green, of course it can.

Barry Hearn

It was a little nerve-racking. I sat and watched the first six innings. But you have to do that when you have guys like Grady Sizemore and Jason Michaels ahead of you.

Jordan Brown

You don't need to get up the nerve to talk to them - they're available and you'll be able to meet them. And getting to meet someone face-to-face is just so important, because that's where the chemistry happens.

Adele Testani

It was really slick. It was nerve-racking. A UPS truck hit me and I don't know what happened after that.

James Graves

It was nerve-wracking until practice started, then I was focused on what coach had to say.

Patrick Mills

It was really nerve racking.

Jacqueline Johannes

It feels a little nerve-racking, because people expect us to do better this year. We have more to lose (at state) than last year, which is not the best feeling.

David Park

It was a nerve-racking moment, ... He stayed up half the night writing it. Then we stayed up because that was all we could do.

Ruby Dee

You have to re-educate that leg as to its muscle-firing patterns, the nerve pathways, so you can walk and run again.

Angelo Colosimo

It wasn't easy to concentrate at times, but I'm delighted with the win. I was pleased with the way I held my nerve on the big points.

Elena Baltacha

It's far too nerve-racking at this hour of the morning.

Edie Falco