Shock Quotes
783 quotes by 679 authors
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Really, we don't relate our Atlanta setup to here. I feel like the shock [absorber] package will be different and the springs will certainly be…
— Mark Martin
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The listener must be gripped and whether he likes it or not, drawn into the flight path of the sounds without special training being necessary.…
— Iannis Xenakis
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The theory of economic shock therapy relies in part on the roleof expectations on feeding an inflationary process. Reining in inflation requires not only changing…
— Naomi Klein
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Information is shock resistance. Arm yourself.
— Naomi Klein
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The most important thing for a fighter pilot is to get his first victory without too much shock.
— Unknown Author
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Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued…
— Alan Greenspan
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When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese were furious to…
— Margaret Thatcher
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There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a…
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.
— Jan Karon
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Divine happiness, even the tiniest particle of a grain of it, never leaves one again; and when one attains to the essence of things and…
— Anandamayi Ma
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I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with…
— Shirley Jackson
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Gordon Edgley's sudden death came as a shock to everyone - not least himself. One moment he was in his study, seven words into the…
— Derek Landy
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People are very surprised to hear me say that a lot of my values are Christian values. I think that's part of my shock. I…
— Marilyn Manson
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In my naïvety, I thought people who were in rock 'n' roll bands were great artists, and it was a huge shock to the system…
— Bruce Dickinson
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Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking…
— Jeff Bingaman
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Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
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And also I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call
— Bill Walsh
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Why is it that aggression in the name of God shocks secular liberal sensibilities, whereas the act of killing in the name of the secular…
— Talal Asad
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