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
Children make you confront your own childhood. Which I think is common. Suddenly you're remembering your own parents as parents, not to… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Today's comics use four-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. They're shooting for that big laugh and it becomes a panic thing,… — Red Skelton Copy Share Image
I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek. — MC Hammer Copy Share Image
I even had breasts that had mechanisms that could make them droop. It was a shock in the beginning. Talk about special… — Michelle Pfeiffer 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
That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful shocks of the Middle Passage is the collapse of our tacit contract with the universe-the assumption that… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
For a few minutes, maybe, life lingers in the tissues of some outlying regions of the body. Then, one by one, the… — Christopher Isherwood 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
So, you could often say things are terrible and that accounts for what happened, or things are really bright, and that accounts… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence. — Kurt Goldstein Copy Share Image
There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away… — Will Durst Copy Share Image
Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Yes, it's quite amazing how I continue to shock my mother even after all these years together — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
When I came to England it wasn't what it is now, then the black people were very rarely strong. I had a… — Buchi Emecheta Copy Share Image
I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
If you have a very hot experience then shock yourself with cold water, it's very very good for the nervous system. — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, we learned our history almost as lives of the saints. And it came as a shock, "Oh,… — Harry Shearer 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
