When we're not defending and justifying, and we're being very still, our answers can and do shock us. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste. — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own… — Paula Marantz Cohen Copy Share Image
It sucks how all the good guys are taken... I honestly don't know if I'll find ANYONE good for me… — I DON'T KNOW Copy Share Image
Emily Dickinson liked to shock people. She liked to break rules. There was a kind of rebellious freedom in her inner world. — Christopher Benfey Copy Share Image
There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away… — Will Durst Copy Share Image
“She parted her lips as though she were going to scold him, but, after a moment of sitting with her mouth agape… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
With my classical training and coming from a metal band, producers didn't know what to expect. I like to shock people, though. — Tarja Turunen Copy Share Image
My parents would have to put the fire hose on me to get me out of bed, to go to school in… — Jackson Rathbone Copy Share Image
I know this may come as a shock to most of you, but I've decided to quit acting. I will not be… — Chris Pratt Copy Share Image
If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the… — Eleanor Clark Copy Share Image
I started my cooking 'career' aged 15, almost 20 years ago. At the time it was quite a shock suddenly working 75… — Rene Redzepi Copy Share Image
I begin my pictures under the effect of a shock which I feel and which makes me escape from reality... I need… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
But the fact that we had to devalue by 40% at once means that Malawians are feeling the shock, the impact of… — Joyce Banda Copy Share Image
But-" Maia, still looking at Alec and Magnus, broke off and rasied her eyebrows. Simon turned to see what she was looking… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Isn't it curious how one has only to open a book of verse to realise immediately that it was written by a… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
The phone rang, picked up, and the same male voice announced, “Chris Powers." "Hey there, Chris. Are you aware it's a felony… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
Lucy swayed in shock. A gust of wind moaned through the conservatory and blew out all but one of her candles. Simon… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
In The Lost Message of Jesus I claim that penal substitution is tantamount to 'child abuse - a vengeful Father punishing his… — Steve Chalke Copy Share Image
Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If I'd grown up in Atlanta and then gone to Ottumwa, Iowa it may have been culture shock, but I was used… — Todd Grisham Copy Share Image
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it... — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock. — John Mayer Copy Share Image
O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, when the frost is on the punkin and the… — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image
Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Anyone who goes on 'The X Factor' to make big money will be in for a big shock. — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
Without a huge shock, the sleepy-head, ignorant Japanese will never wake up. — Hiroo Onoda Copy Share Image
Through my attempt to get pregnant through IVF, we sadly found out that I have early stages of breast cancer. It's been… — Giuliana Rancic Copy Share Image
Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
Finding out that I was gay when I was older was a shock and a disappointment. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Obviously, I think it was an aberration, but it is a reality. We're still a team that won nine games, but this… — Larry Coker Copy Share Image
For me, noise is not something I use to shock, or because it's funny, or weird, or whatever. I use it because… — Christian Fennesz Copy Share Image
The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic. — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
It's no longer possible to find something which will shock other people, because everything has already been done. — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions. — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
It would not lessen the shock and concern, but it would be something concrete in addition to the apologies. — Celso Amorim Copy Share Image
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