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 Copy Share Image
Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children,… — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Copy Share Image
The only place where you can really surprise or shock the reader, or make someone laugh, is on the lower righthand corner… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I believe very much in a dialogue between buildings - I believe it's always been there. I think buildings have different identities… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
“We’re not in shock,” I told her, even as I clutched the material tighter around my neck. “Well, you all look awful,”… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
I used to go into pubs and people would want to pick a fight with me. I would hear a group of… — Pat Cash Copy Share Image
Yes, business really does change. 400 years ago, corporations were formed by royal decree. 300 years ago, many countries were powered by… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The realization that American power could and should be used for the defense of pluralism and as a punishment for fascism came… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The vestibule door opens onto a June morning so fine and scrubbed Classira pauses at the threshold as she would at the… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Every person in the world is by nature a slave to sin. The world, by nature, is held in sin's grip. What… — Joel Beeke Copy Share Image
“This initial numbness and denial is shock and it is a gift. Shock is a grace period. It gives a woman time… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
The attacks of September 11, 2001, were spectacular, riveting, grim, costly and searing. The shock that they caused reverberated throughout the world.… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
“... and that did it. That brought those depthless blue eyes within a foot, perhaps six inches, maybe even closer, and something… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
[Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
The theory of economic shock therapy relies in part on the roleof expectations on feeding an inflationary process. Reining in inflation requires… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
He’s not feeling well,” Clary said, catching at Simon’s wrist. “We’re going.” “No,” Simon said. “No, I — I need to talk… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
A bright light filled the plane. The first shock-wave hit us. We were eleven and a half miles slant range from the… — Paul Tibbets Copy Share Image
So much of the humor on new sitcoms plays to the lowest common denominator. Wit isn't nearly given as much attention as… — Betty White Copy Share Image
Lilacs, False Blue, White, Purple, Colour of lilac, Your great puffs of flowers Are everywhere in this my New England ... Lilacs… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
Social media reactions to celebrity death have taken on a predictable pattern: an outpouring of shock with expressions of grief, followed by… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness;… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this [Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species'] and begin to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We often wonder that certain men and women are left by God to the commission of sins that shock us. We wonder… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
His (Swami Vivekananda) words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
Have you ever had one of those moments when you know that you're being visited by your own future? They come so… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
That small word "Force," they make a barber's block, Ready to put on Meanings most strange and various, fit to shock Pupils… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
I got on a plane. I remember when I got on the plane, the talk was, you know, they're checking Dale out,… — Jeff Gordon Copy Share Image
Because I'm a performer I can justify and sometimes sell the things about me that offend and shock the conventional world. I… — Elizabeth Ashley Copy Share Image
The same thing I did in 2013 is what I'm trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
I'm not a nostalgic person for the glory days of 8-track sales at the local K-Mart. But there's a little bit of… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
For my family and Howard's partner, who is like family, for 10 years we were in a state of shock. It takes… — Aaron Brookner Copy Share Image
To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I have a feeling a lot of artists' work got lost [because of AIDS]. Howard was fortunate because his family and friends… — Aaron Brookner Copy Share Image
I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Well, good-bye for now," he said, rolling his neck as if we hadn't been talking about anything important at all. He bowed… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
The ways in which Oscar Wilde was attacking the Romantics that preceded him, and the Romantic ideas that preceded him, were very… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
![“[Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And partly drawn from my own childhood: violence and a loss of innocence. But keep in mind that, as a writer, I'm both the criminal and the victim. I'm not…” quote by Said Sayrafiezadeh](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1c0/said-sayrafiezadeh-16091_audience_ending-is-partly-drawn-from-a-desire-to_597129.jpg)
![“It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this [Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species'] and begin to understand it, because not only does it seem incredible and thoroughly demeaning to us, but it's yet another shock to our system to discover that not only are we not the centre of the…” quote by Douglas Adams](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/32b/douglas-adams-122_centre_it-takes-a-long-time-before-we-really-ge_1508473.jpg)
![“I have a feeling a lot of artists' work got lost [because of AIDS]. Howard was fortunate because his family and friends supported him, but a chilling thing I remember was these guys at St. Vincent's [Hospital] who would call out for someone to listen to them, just for a moment. They were dying…” quote by Aaron Brookner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/339/aaron-brookner-54373_aids_i-have-a-feeling-a-lot-of-artists-work-g_373194.jpg)
