Shock Quotes

783 Shock quotes by 679 unique authors

Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock… — George Eliot
Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible… — Ben Bernanke
Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect… — Alvin Toffler
If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves, And, like living coals, the apples Burned among the withering leaves. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains. — Peter Drucker
If a brutal scene is shown for no reason except to shock, then it is bad. — Cornel Wilde
Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument. — Emile Durkheim
Nothing can shock me. — Sheri Moon Zombie
Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the whole thing will go into anaphylactic shock. — Marcus Brigstocke
I get to play characters that kind of shock people and I enjoy doing that. I like characters that have meaning and get people in… — Alexa Vega
Going through different places, I stopped through Dubai and stayed there overnight. There I had an ultra-culture shock. — Tequan Richmond
Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forgets to entertain us along the way. Shock and awe… — Rick Yancey
Our goals and what we hope to achieve by moving to food assistance is even in supporting the crisis needs of the most vulnerable people,… — Ertharin Cousin
So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding. — Alice Walker
If I say that I am more interested in preventing the slaughter of large whales than I am in improving housing conditions for people, I… — Richard Dawkins
The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock. — Noam Chomsky
In order to produce learned fear, you take a neutral stimulus like a tone, and you pair it with an electrical shock. Tone, shock. Tone,… — Eric Kandel
I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness. — Babe Paley
Great upheavals produce shock waves that widen cracks in political, economic, and security orders. Sometimes the old orders break. Yet it can be in the… — Robert Zoellick
Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting their perspectives so… — Paul Bloom
I had barely turned 12 when my parents packed me off to Doon School. I was transported to a world of confusion with 600 other… — Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it could produce. — Alejandro Jodorowsky
Any natural, normal human being, when faced with any kind of loss, will go from shock all the way through acceptance. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share. — Nancy Gibbs

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