Quote by Russell Hoban
When you suffer an attack of nerves youre being attacked by the ne

When you suffer an attack of nerves youre being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? – Russell Hoban

Other quotes by Russell Hoban

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you dont make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life. – Russell Hoban

Category:
Violence
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If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. – Russell Hoban

Category:
Learning
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But when I dont smoke I scarcely feel as if Im living. I dont feel as if Im living unless Im killing myself. – Russell Hoban

Category:
Smoking
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Other Quotes from
Stress
category

Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching. – Bill Pullman

Category:
Stress

To be “on edge,” you are literally not centered — not being in your spiritual center. – Carrie Latet

Category:
Stress

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tone the spirit just as exercise conditions the body. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

Category:
Stress

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives. – Marilyn Ferguson

Category:
Stress

Random Quotes

Never let the little head do the thinking for the big head. – Author unknown, advice to teenage boys, quoted in Friendly Advice compiled by Jo

Category:
Prom Night

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. – Edward O. Wilson

Category:
Environment

In war, truth is the first casualty. – Aeschylus (Thanks, Dan)

Category:
War

I simply do not distinguish between work and play. – Mary Oliver

Category:
work