The natural tendency of the state is inflation. This statement will shock those accustomed to viewing the state as a committee of… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
There's a lot of stuff that happened to me when I was kinda young. Like when I was just 12, or 13… — Katie Price Copy Share Image
In 1953, Mom and Dad, living in Toronto, discovered, to their shock, that Mom was expecting. I was born in June 1954.… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
Most contemporary artists are behind the bubble in time. They're making videos that are so incredibly boring compared to a good movie.… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
Fang," I said, my voice breaking. "Just live, okay? Live and be okay." With no warning, I leaned down and kissed his… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and… — John Owen Copy Share Image
It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front… — Sam Kinison Copy Share Image
Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a culture shock than going to India. The people in the Indian… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“The throbbing in her jaw brought her back. The sky outside was brightening, the morning light highlighting the horrible mess in front… — J.T. Ellison Copy Share Image
Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The habit of quietly absorbing the shocks will be quite a great help to stabilize pure awareness. The technique is: Just feel… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for… — P. J. O'Rourke 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
You guys didn't really think you could go off on a party weekend without me, did you? Especially here of all places—"… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
When one of my Japanese teacups is broken, I imagine that the real cause was not the careless hand of a maid… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Not to be too preachy, but I would really recommend to people, if you get the chance, to trust yourselves to leap… — Ross Mathews Copy Share Image
After the terrible events of last week, there is still the shock and disbelief; there is anger; there is fear; but there… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale… — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
Paul Ryan announced that after a lot of thought, and talking it over with family and friends, that he is not going… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give… — Thomas Noon Talfourd Copy Share Image
Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
I don't really think it comes as a shock to every writer if somebody in their family is mad at them. Yes,… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the… — Yann Arthus-Bertrand Copy Share Image
The doctor, if he forgets he is only the assistant to nature and zealously takes over the stage, may so add to… — Herbert Ratner Copy Share Image
I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood.… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at the moment when opposite a man (the viewer)… — Tadeusz Kantor Copy Share Image
It's certainly not a shock to find that the industry has no imagination. I think people don't know what it is I… — Nathan Lane Copy Share Image
I was like, "Oh my god, I hope you're secretly grossed out about everything that [Donald] Trump has been doing." But why… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my… — Pat Summerall Copy Share Image
“Politics is scripted for maximum shock that will lead to gossip and speculation. We are living in a sketch comedy zone. Everything… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for… — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment… — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
“We're taking you to the hospital,' it said, 'you're going into shock. Can you tell us how you feel?' 'I feel ...'… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
“I think it takes some terrible or great event to fuse two people together without inhibition. Without heat or shock, it can't… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“My body shook from pain, exhaustion, and the beginning of shock. I'd pay for all the powers I'd used, but the portal… — Lola Dodge Copy Share Image
I love films where you go into the cinema and loosen the edges of yourself and you hopefully enter into the world… — Julia Leigh Copy Share Image
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![“I was like, "Oh my god, I hope you're secretly grossed out about everything that [Donald] Trump has been doing." But why is it such a shock to anybody? He's said so many things that show who he is and how ignorant he is from the beginning.” quote by Kathleen Hanna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/037/kathleen-hanna-1726_donald-trump_i-was-like-oh-my-god-i-hope-you-re-secre_2033281.jpg)
