Shock Quotes · Page 15

That's all I want - to shock the world. The only way to do it is to do something hard.

— Ryan Garcia

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our…

— William Throsby Bridges

When our bodies are violated by this horrible disease of cancer, we're in total shock because it's so unexpected.

— David H. Koch

“His body tensed as his gut was struck with a frozen bullet of shock. He couldn’t breathe.”

— Sidney Knight

I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I…

— Benazir Bhutto

I’m a little worried about Edward… Can vampires go into shock? Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 7, p.129

— Stephenie Meyer

When Mahavishnu came out in '71, the unbelievable reaction to the band was a real shock to me. It was a shock…

— John McLaughlin

Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue…

— Ben Bernanke

It comes as a great shock…to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance…has not pledged allegiance to you. It…

— Anonymous

I'm gonna reveal something to you that's going to come as a shock: If you're a stupid young man, you're usually a…

— William Shatner

I'd learned something... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me...…

— Anthony Bourdain

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but…

— Jacob M. Appel

Propaganda's content increasingly resembles information. It has even clearly been proved that a violent, excessive, shock-provoking propaganda texts leads ultimately to less…

— Jacques Ellul

I'm always working on something new and while I'm working, I'm absorbed with my characters, their conflicts,my language and settings. I'm in…

— Sefi Atta

The man who now confronted Gashford, was a squat, thickset personage, with a low, retreating forehead, a coarse shock head of hair,…

— Charles Dickens

No higher proof exists of the strength of popular government than, though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional…

— Chester A. Arthur

To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of…

— Jane Austen

Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy…

— Derrick Jensen

I haven't made many wedding dresses. It's a dress very, very important for the girl; it's important to know the person, I…

— Olivier Theyskens

“I rely on images of violence, which bring the shock of pain, to penetrate the barriers people erect and defend, not simple…

— Jim Morrison

A purpose gives meaning to life. It is like the hub in a wheel -- with every spoke fitted into it to…

— Oveta Culp Hobby

At the moment, he is in shock," said Magnus. "He has believed one thing for five years, and now he has realized…

— Cassandra Clare

I use the [vulgar] words because apparently these words do not corrupt morally. I'm from the street in New York, hung around…

— George Carlin

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's…

— Jonah Hill

Does she know just how to shock and electrify and rock you. Does she inject you seduce you and affect you like…

— Melissa Etheridge

You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.

— Ray Romano

I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.

— Anonymous

I think the elements to shock the world is either the ability to wrestle and grind somebody out or the ability to…

— Tyron Woodley

When you are able to touch each other for the first time in many, many years, it's always kind of a shock.

— Celine Song

I fail to see the issue that will shock the people of this great country of ours into some decisive action.

— Graham Nash

The blackness of space was a big shock to me. It is a deep, three-dimensional, oily blackness. You can feel the distance.

— Thomas Marshburn

Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.

— Margery Allingham

History , as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.

— Robert Heilbroner

I like to create a shock moment. I take what not everybody wants and really get people to believe that's me.

— Greg Vaughan

I'm a big Marty Robbins fan. I love Marty Robbins. Of course, everybody does. That's not such a big shock.

— George Thorogood

“A fortunate birth, in other words, is a shock absorber." -The Thought Experiment”

— George Saunders

You can look at a finale as chance to make an impact or a statement, to shock people or shoot a big…

— Alex Hirsch

When we're not defending and justifying, and we're being very still, our answers can and do shock us.

— Byron Katie

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

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