{"quotes":[{"text":"And now, for something completely the same:Wasted time and wasted breath,'s what I'll make, until my death.Helping people 'd be as good,but I wouldn't, if I could.For the few that help deserve,have no need, or not the nerve,help from strangers to accept,plus from mine a few have wept.Wept from joy, or from despair,or just from my vengeful stare.Ways I have, to look at stupid,make them see I am not Cupid.Make them see they are in error,for of truth I am a bearer.Most decide I'm just a bear,mauling at them, - like I care.","author":"Will Advise","tags":["acceptance","bear","bears","breath","breathing","caring","cupid","deciding","decision","decisions","deserve","deserving","despair","difference","different","erroneous","error","errors","good","helping","joy","mauling","mistake","mistakes","nerve","nerves","nothing","others","people","poem","poems","refusal","strange","stranger","strangers","stupid","tears","truth","vengeance","vengeful","waste","wasted","wasted-time","weeping"],"id":22661,"author_id":"Will+Advise"},{"text":"I should’ve been very cross with Anubis. Kissing me without permission—the nerve!","author":"Rick Riordan","tags":["anubis","kiss","nerve","permission","sadie"],"id":38910,"author_id":"Rick+Riordan"},{"text":"Some people’s self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","aplomb","assertiveness","better","bettered","boldness","boy","boyfriend","boyfriends","boys","confidence","confident","courage","esteem","funny","girl","girlfriend","girlfriends","girls","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","husband","husbands","improve","improved","in-secret-secretly","joke","jokes","kill","kill-herself-over","kill-himself-over","kill-oneself-over","kill-yourself-over","killed","killed-herself-over","killed-himself-over","killing-yourself-over","lover","lovers","man","men","mettle","nerve","phlegm","poise","romeo-and-juliet","satire","secret","self-assurance","self-confidence","self-esteem","self-murder","self-murders","self-possession","suicidal","suicide","suicides","wife","wives","woman","women"],"id":81360,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.","author":"Christopher Morley","tags":["answer","beauty","heart","man","nerve","secret","vibrations"],"id":114825,"author_id":"Christopher+Morley"},{"text":"Anger can be defeated by controlling our emotions without upsetting the nerves.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["anger","anger-management","control","emotions","nerve","nerves","wrath"],"id":141709,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"I need to use my mind in a way that slows the out-of-control beating in my chest. The darkness around us could be anywhere, anytime. I could be alive or dead. Okay, I choose alive. While I’m at it, I choose the darkness to be a gentle blanket on a moonless night, where I rest a few feet from a boy who’s warm and sweet. When he holds me, his heart beats strong with what I tell myself is passion, not fear.","author":"Jeanne Ryan","tags":["darkness","fear","jeanne-ryan","nerve","passion","vee"],"id":159150,"author_id":"Jeanne+Ryan"},{"text":"Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aggravating","annoy","annoying","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","aplomb","assertive","assertiveness","assured","at-ease","bashful","bashfulness","boldness","bothersome","can-do","confident","coolheaded","courage","coyness","cursed","demureness","diffidence","diffident","embarrassed","embarrassment","exasperating","extrovert","extroverted","farouche","funny","galling","girl","girls","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","imperturbable","infuriating","inhibited","insecure","introversion","introvert","introverted","irksome","irritate","irritating","irritation","joke","jokes","lack-of-confidence","levelheaded","maddening","man","men","mettle","mousiness","mousy","nerve","nervous","nettlesome","obnoxious","pesky","phlegm","phlegmatic","poise","poised","positive","quotations","quotes","repressed","reserve","reserved","reservedness","reticence","reticent","retiring","satire","self-assurance","self-assured","self-confidence","self-confident","self-conscious","self-consciousness","self-effacing","self-possessed","self-possession","self-reliant","sheepish","sheepishness","shy","shyness","timid","timidity","timidness","timorous","timorousness","tiresome","together","troublesome","trying","unconfident","unperturbed","unruffled","vexatious","vexing","withdrawn"],"id":173966,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"A good cricketer never loses his nerve.He just bats on!","author":"Anthony T.Hincks","tags":["bat","bats-on","cricket","life","loses","nerve","philosophy","ross"],"id":178199,"author_id":"Anthony+T.Hincks"},{"text":"Often it feels like I am breathing today only because a few years back I had no idea which nerve to cut...","author":"Sanhita Baruah","tags":["alive","alone","broken","crying","cut","depressed","devastated","grief","life","loneliness","lonely","loss","love","madness","melancholy","mess","morose","nerve","sad","solitude","suicidal","suicide","suicide-attempt","unhappy","weeping"],"id":221111,"author_id":"Sanhita+Baruah"},{"text":"Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.","author":"Robert Greene","tags":["determination","inspirational","nerve","success"],"id":359103,"author_id":"Robert+Greene"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}