Shocks Quotes

114 Shocks quotes by 103 unique authors

We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago, no one could… — Warren Buffett
Yes, business really does change. 400 years ago, corporations were formed by royal decree. 300 years ago, many countries were powered by slave labour, or… — Umair Haque
Folks still remember the day ole Bob Riley came bouncing down that dirt road in his pickup. Pretty soon, it was bouncing higher and higher.… — Jack Handey
The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where… — Mike Ferguson
What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one's literary standards should be.… a tour de… — Noah Richler
I love America, and I love American women. But there is one thing that deeply shocks me - American closets. I cannot believe one can… — Andree Putman
It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of manners and customs.… — Swami Vivekananda
This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty… — Jacob M. Appel
Prospects for growth in the year ahead are solid at the national level, and of course, this can only be good news for the Bay… — Janet Yellen
Far from being a drag on growth, making our energy sources more sustainable, our energy consumption more efficient, and our economy more resilient to energy… — David Cameron
Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing. — Marcel Duchamp
Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded… — Elihu Root
It shocks me when young kids still say, 'I want to do a magazine,' — Scott Schuman
What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet. — John Keats
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. — Ben Bernanke
But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large, flexible markets. And… — Daniel Yergin
In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only… — Georg Simmel
Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock… — Graham Joyce
As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and… — Ernst Toller
Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from… — Alexander Pope
A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing… — Thornton Wilder
I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road… — Daniel Yergin
A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to… — Charles C. Mann
Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of… — Marquis de Custine
I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me. — Ed Rollins

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