There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. I… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Jared glared balefully at the old man, his eyes full of the shock and pain of the betrayed. I had only human… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
This can come as a shock to those Christians who are so used to hearing that Jesus is the solution to sin… — Doug Pagitt Copy Share Image
There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock with the audience. I… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Our goals and what we hope to achieve by moving to food assistance is even in supporting the crisis needs of the… — Ertharin Cousin Copy Share Image
We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Although my doctors informed me that I suffered a cerebral concussion, as well as shock, I do not seek to escape responsibility… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
When you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New… — Florence King Copy Share Image
“A state of shock is produced when a story is ruptured… Trump is not a rupture at all, but rather the culmination… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
I wrestled and played football in high school and in my last year, I started as a wrestler and actually had a… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The problem is that, in a world of floating exchange rates, as Italy was before the euro, if one country is subjected… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
“Ricky just listens. He isn't shocked. He isn't surprised. He listens to me because he knows. He knows the shame and the… — Emily Andrews Copy Share Image
The most extreme among the Brexiters are convinced they can ride the chaos and deploy the 'shock doctrine' to remake the nation… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
The duty of a philosopher is clear. He must take every pain to ascertain the truth; and, having arrived at a conclusion,… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There had seemed no other way to view her, not until that moment when he'd fallen from the window. Rude shock: running… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
The reaction to death is sometimes as violent as death itself. Shock throws a cautious coolness over your senses, but your stomach… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
“Stripped of context, the physical sensations exploded: the surprising shock of heat from that skin-to-skin grip; the soft hiss of the bracelets… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I thought I was Superman until I experienced that life-changing anaphylactic shock. I was eating lunch and gobbled down a couple of… — Adrian Peterson Copy Share Image
“You never told me his name," the boy says. Time skips a beat, pauses, breathes out. She nuzzles her face against the… — C.G. Drews Copy Share Image
A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
This may sound mad, but you sort of assume that no one's going to watch what you do. You go on set,… — Olivia Colman Copy Share Image
I think that people are having to do like really crazy things to shock people now, to get people's attention and it… — Joss Stone Copy Share Image
When you live with Dickens for years, reading him and trying to present him as faithfully as you can, you can't fail… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
All of my life I've been met with shock and disbelief if I've ever come out with anything remotely smart, as if… — Stacey Solomon Copy Share Image
I’d only met him once, at the mall. He was tall, with a big floppy shock of blond hair he was always… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved -… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It’s a big shift. I don’t know quite how to explain it. Between wanting and not wanting, caring and not caring. Of… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
Going into that race I was going for the world record, just quietly, but I wasn't feeling at my best all week… — Leisel Jones Copy Share Image