Shocks Quotes
114 Shocks quotes by 103 unique authors
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Who burns me and shocks me and shatters me with a single touch.
— Kami Garcia
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The city was bigger than its buildings, bigger than its inhabitants too. It had its own nuances. It accepted whatever came its way, the crime…
— Colum McCann
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You do care a little for me, I know... but nothing to speak of, and you don't love me. I was yours once till death…
— E. M. Forster
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To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,…
— William Shakespeare
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Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the…
— David Hume
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Scared ya, did I? Aw, that's sweet. Don't worry the shocks won't kill me," she whispered. "They only make me stronger. Anyway, it was worth…
— Lauren Kate
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I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like? We…
— Naomi Shihab Nye
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Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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To be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence, to be obliged…
— Ivo Andric
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The snow has quietness in it; no songs, no smells, no shouts or traffic. When I speak my own voice shocks me.
— Anne Sexton
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The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or casual. They can…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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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
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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
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The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.
— Peter Drucker
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I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married in real life. So both…
— Cathy Guisewite
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Sputnik quickly became one of the three great shocks to hit America - historians say the equal of Pearl Harbor or 9/11.
— David Hoffman
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One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.
— Marianne Williamson
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Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
— George Washington
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By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the…
— John Acton
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From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as…
— Philip Gibbs
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a…
— George Washington
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a…
— George Washington
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Heart breaks don't just come because a person leaves but the excitement going on at the time the person left...replacing all the joy with shocks.
— Terry Mark
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It shocks me when I see old fake ass friends adding me on facebook. I just hit the DENY button I don't need fake people…
— Blondie:)
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The power of a glance, it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only. Nothing is more real than these great…
— Victor Hugo
Who Wrote These Shocks Quotes
103 authors contributed a total of 114 Shocks Quotes, led by these top contributors: