In the final analysis courage is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence, to the shocks which it is… — Kurt Goldstein Copy Share Image
It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so… — John Amery Copy Share Image
Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. It's a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forgets to entertain us along the way.… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these… — Ransom Riggs 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
I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together. And I want… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
What do you have in mind after you graduate?" What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Tell me, Eric,” he said, licking a droplet from the corner of his mouth. “Have you ever tasted blood?” My mouth was… — Melika Dannese Lux Copy Share Image
But yeah, Ann [Trason] insisted, running was romantic; and no, of course her friends didn't get it because they'd never broken through.… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Japan had a more radical experience of future shock than any other nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. They were this… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
One fella went on the internet and got lots of photos of me in Love Actually, topless and naked and stuff, printed… — Joanna Page Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I've always considered myself a good person. I've never done anything to purposely hurt anyone. I was in shock that this happened… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
When I made 'Who Needs Pictures,' my first album, I had been west of the Mississippi River one time in my life,… — Brad Paisley 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
A playful mind is inquisitive, and learning is fun. If you indulge your natural curiosity and retain a sense of fun in… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Going there [Japan] in the early 80s was quite a culture shock. I think the bombardment of Shinjuku and all that would… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
The man who now confronted Gashford, was a squat, thickset personage, with a low, retreating forehead, a coarse shock head of hair,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first… — Alexander McQueen 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
My parents are always a great litmus test. Based on the amount of shrieks my mother gives when we're out in public,… — Rick Hoffman Copy Share Image
It's good to see you," Said Haru. "You can see me?" asked Marcus, patting himself in sudden shock."The potion must have worn… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image