If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
For what wears out the life of mortal men? 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls; Tis that repeated shocks,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
You feel it in there, pacing your heart sometimes, and it has what's called a defibrillator. Should I suffer that arhythmia, it's… — Victoria Gotti Copy Share Image
But my point is that 'the death of God' is not something like the Battle of Waterloo or Magna Charta. It's not… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“It is simply not possible to live in a state of acute fear and shock for more than a couple of weeks,… — Sarah Moss Copy Share Image
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
How many mysteries have you seen in your lifetime? How many nets pulled full over the boat's side, each silver body ready… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The biggest shock when I lost it all was the realization that so much of my life had been out of my… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
“I will not share you." Still holding his gaze, she drove her body down onto his. Tiny threads of lightning danced over… — C.L. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Then Frederica went towards him, holding out her hand, and he raised his eyes from Felix’s eager countenance, and smiled at her,… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things… — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
Catching sight of himself in the long mirrors that ran along the walls, he stiffened in shock...His eyes were surrounded by black… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Every time I do anything, I have to ask myself: Is it a good role, and is it right to do it?… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
Such techniques, including meta-discursive stuff, self-reference, irony, black humor, cynicism, grotesquerie and shock, it would be safe to say that television or… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
The biggest shock of your life is when you first make a record and go to a show and then people start… — Nigel Godrich Copy Share Image
I'm in shock. Whitney was such an amazing artist. When I started my English career, I wanted to be like her. I… — Celine Dion Copy Share Image
Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It's definitely a shock to go from being 15 in high school to working. There's no real cushion there. There's no preparation… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
You would think the fury of aerial bombardment would rouse God to relent; the infinite spaces Are still silent. He looks on… — Richard Eberhart Copy Share Image
I was first in Sydney in 1993, and have been a few times since then. For someone who didn't know Australia, it… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
I'd never experienced stress before I did stand-up, and it was a massive shock to my system, this thing of waking up,… — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
That shock that travels up your spine, through your body, and doesn't let you move. All you can do it nearly die… — Amber Hope Copy Share Image
Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
There once was a man name Barack, Whose re-election came as a shock. He raised the taxes I pay, And then turned… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“What makes coming home so jarring, compared to other returns from other exotic places—―isn't simply culture shock. It's human shock, seeing so… — Laurence C. Smith Copy Share Image
I wish everybody would have to have an electric thing implanted in our heads that gave us a shock whenever we did… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
You almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do, there is… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Kincaid wondered what universal formula required that a person should sit down to receive bad news. Was it merely a precaution against… — Deborah Crombie Copy Share Image
After having your first child, it's a massive shock to the system. I work in an industry where people judge you and… — Louise Nurding Copy Share Image
My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
I had barely turned 12 when my parents packed me off to Doon School. I was transported to a world of confusion… — Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia Copy Share Image
But I think that sometimes, when one's behaved like a rather second-rate person, the way I did at breakfast, then in a… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
It's not about the pace, it's about the direction we've set. The pace is of course a function of many factors, including… — Marek Belka Copy Share Image
“Do I want to, can I face my own pain alone now? Shock keeps horror at bay. Hands off. Distanced by mist… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
