Shock Quotes

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It would not lessen the shock and concern, but it would be something concrete in addition to the apologies. — Celso Amorim
It's actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me. — Phil Collins
One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free. — Jack Abbott
It's not that I'm deliberately trying to shock people all the time. I'm just doing things that are obvious to me. It's because the public… — Takafumi Horie
Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and… — P.J. O'Rourke
Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them. — William Shakespeare
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. — F. H. Bradley
Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and… — Abraham Lincoln
Going into that race I was going for the world record, just quietly, but I wasn't feeling at my best all week so it was… — Leisel Jones
Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters. — Robert Browning
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. — Walter Benjamin
Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking,… — Mark Helprin
We will suffer a sharp painful disullisionment before we fully surrender. When people really see themselves as the Lord sees them, it is not the… — Oswald Chambers
I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth… — Marc Chagall
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied to. Convinced his son had… — Bill Cosby
The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than a… — James Jeans
The key to looking great in the evening is to look original. Try to look different from others without looking out of place. When everyone… — Isaac Mizrahi

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