“The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it.”

“If your Nerve, deny you
Go above your Nerve”

“Being threatened seems to being out the worst in me.”

“It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.”

“You will never lose your nerve. Your life, probably, but never your nerve.”

“You can't lose your nerve for the big failure because you need exactly the same nerve for the big success.”

“Kaname: Ichijou… about Aido…
Ichijou: Hmmm?
Kaname: He's beginning to get on my nerves…
Ichijou: Well, he's in love with you.”

“The thesis of the identity of concept and thing is in general the vital nerve of idealist thought, and indeed traditional thought in general. … Negative dialectics as critique means above all criticism of precisely this claim to identity.”

“It is often said that a monkey could run an index fund. Nothing could be further fro the truth. Precisely tracking an index requires a very high degree of market savvy, discipline and nerve.”

“For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.”