Trust me...you are in for a shock.

I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a…

— Fred Ritchin

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

Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.

— Paul Gauguin

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me…

— Harold Brodkey

I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a…

— Shimon Peres

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a…

— Alvin Toffler

“It's the shock of the thing, is what I'm saying, and my new and somewhat untested theory is that when something is shocking it…

— Krystelle Bamford

The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the…

— Katherine Anne Porter

I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.

— Charles Darwin

Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me.

— Tom Conti

Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going to go on growing-in…

— Bruce Catton

When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock.

— Michael Snow

Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good…

— Arthur Eddington

Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To…

— Joe Hill

When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock.…

— Steven Pinker