When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 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
I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock. — John Mayer Copy Share Image
I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world. — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
When a person you love moves by you with flat eyes that will not see you, it is a shock to believe… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
How did I become a type 1 diabetic? Nobody will ever know but I think it was the shock of my daughter. — Lindsay Hoyle Copy Share Image
“As by an electric current that gives us a shock, I have been shaken by my loves, I have lived them, I… — Marcel Proust 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
Fame is always a shock to the system; there's no school to go to, there are no books to read, and when… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm,… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I think it can be fun to be single and date-like when you don't want a relationship. Or when you've just gotten… — Breckin Meyer Copy Share Image
I tend to go against the grain because when I start to see that everybody's trying to shock, I try not to.… — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
My job - and it's really true - is that it's constantly evolving and changing. When I was doing the Chet Baker… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum,… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
South Africa, with US support, after the fall of the Portuguese empire, invaded Angola and Mozambique to establish their own puppet regime… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied to. Convinced… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
You sleep like an angel" Jacks said. The shock of his words in the dark room sent Maddy's stomach leaping into her… — Scott Speer Copy Share Image
My husband, Andrius, says that evil will rule until good men or women choose to act. I believe him. This testimony was… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
When we hit a nail with a hammer, the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Who was this women?' asked Harry. 'I dunno, some Ministry hag.' Mundungus considered for a moment, brow wrinkled. 'Little women. Bow on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“There comes a time when a man must rise above shock, the loss of lung, and grape-tossing women to come up with… — Jes Drew Copy Share Image
I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
“His body tensed as his gut was struck with a frozen bullet of shock. He couldn’t breathe.” — Sidney Knight Copy Share Image
When our bodies are violated by this horrible disease of cancer, we're in total shock because it's so unexpected. — David H. Koch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There's a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me. People want a relationship with you that they haven't… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
What you end up with is outrageousness without the laugh - comedy as electro shock therapy. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I… — Elin Nordegren Copy Share Image
From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I have this thing with red carpet premieres, where I go into shock. I seem very calm, but I'm not. — Harris Dickinson Copy Share Image
I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character. — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
Does she know just how to shock and electrify and rock you. Does she inject you seduce you and affect you like… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
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
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