Shock Quotes - Page 8

• I peered deeper and found my soul. A little tattered and with some holes, but there all the same. It had always been there, I realized with shock.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Soul, Littles, Holes

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.253, Harlequin

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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 to swim, to exist; to have an identity; to resist the pressure and shocks from the outside and the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts - one's own and those of others - which so often exceed one's capacities? And what is more, to endure one's own thoughts about all this: in a word, to be human.

  Ivo Andric

  Ocean, Men, Knowing

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• Well, it's nice being top banana in the shock department.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Nice, Bananas, Wells

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• Will’s eyes met Tessa’s as she came closer, almost tripping again over the torn hem of her gown. For a moment, they were in perfect understanding. Jem was what they could still look each other straight in the eye about. On the topic of Jem, they were both fierce and unyielding. Tessa saw Will’s hand tighten on Jem’s sleeve. “She’s here,” he said. Jem’s eyes opened slowly. Tessa fought to keep the look of shock from her face. His pupils were blown out, his irises a thin ring of silver around the black. “Ni shou shang le ma, quin ai de?” he whispered.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Hands, Perfect

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• It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be changed in accordance with the ideals it expresses. Art only has the capacity, through shock and catharsis, to make the human soul receptive to good. It’s ridiculous to imagine that people can be taught to be good…Art can only give food – a jolt – the occasion – for psychical experience.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Angel, Long Ago

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• Toby smiled and started to speak, but Josh adjusted his hold on Tank and reached back, covering Toby's mouth. "Wait," Grace said. "I think he was going to actually use words." "Yeah, but trust me, you don't want to hear them." Toby pulled Josh's hand away. "Are you my new mommy?" Grace's mouth fell open in shock, and Toby giggled at the sight. "Okay, Tiger," Josh said. "You know I love the sound of your laugh, probably more than any sound in the world, but I will squash you like a grape if you say that to one more woman today.

  Jill Shalvis

  Thinking, Sight, Hands

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• His was not the hatred that arises suddenly like a storm and as suddenly abates. It was, once the initial shock of anger and pain was over, a calculated thing that grew in a bloodless way.

  Mervyn Peake

  Pain, Hatred, Storm

  Mervyn Peake (1995). “The Gormenghast Novels”, Overlook Books

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• His hand touches my waist, steadies me. The touch sends a shock through my body, and all my insides burn like his fingers ignited them. I pull close to him, pressing my body against his, and lift my head to kiss him.

  Veronica Roth

  Kissing, Hands, Body

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• I cannot think of a single word to describe what we feel. I think we all feel it, to varying degrees. Perhaps in some other language there is a word for 'the world is terribly wrong.' That feeling of stun and unbelief and abandonment and shock and horror and distress.

  David Levithan

  Thinking, Feelings, Degrees

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.38, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Fang," I said, my voice breaking. "Just live, okay? Live and be okay." With no warning, I leaned down and kissed his mouth, just like that. "Ow," he said, touching his split lip, then he and I stared at each other in shock.

  James Patterson

  Voice, Touching, Lips

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• You sleep like an angel" Jacks said. The shock of his words in the dark room sent Maddy's stomach leaping into her throat. She didn't even realize she had screamed until it came out of her mouth. "Don't be frightened," Jacks said, sounding worried. "It's just me. I'm sorry, I so didn't mean for that to sound creepy. Let me start over.

  Scott Speer

  Sorry, Angel, Mean

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• Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror." I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Mephi replied, "History suggests, not until they are made to.

  David Mitchell

  Mirrors, Trying, Asking

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• Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school, TV, and loading the dishwasher after dinner.

  Joe Hill

  Running, School, Ordinary

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• Rhoda comes now, having slipped in while we were not looking. She must have made a tortuous course, taking cover now behind a waiter, now behind some ornamental pillar, so as to put off as long as possible the shock of recognition, so as to be secure for one more moment to rock her petals in her basin. We wake her. We torture her. She dreads us, she despises us, yet she comes cringing to our sides because for al our cruelty there is always some name, some face which sheds a radiance, which lights up her pavements and makes it possible for her to replenish her dreams.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Light, Rocks

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• Yes, it's quite amazing how I continue to shock my mother even after all these years together

  Eloisa James

  Mother, Years, Together

  Eloisa James (2011). “Winning the Wallflower: A Novella”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions.

  Rachel Cohn

  Stories, Might, Realizing

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.161, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

  Winston Churchill

  Stay Strong, Jobs, Long

  Radio broadcast, 9 Feb. 1941

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• Life is not as idle ore,
  But iron dug from central gloom,
  And heated hot with burning fears,
  And dipt in baths of hissing tears,
  And batter'd with the shocks of doom,
  To shape and use.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Iron, Tears

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.840, Delphi Classics

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• Your love in a cottage is hungry,
  Your vine is a nest for flies-
  Your milkmaid shocks the Graces,
  And simplicity talks of pies!
  You lie down to your shady slumber
  And wake with a bug in your ear,
  And your damsel that walks in the morning
  Is shod like a mountaineer.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Life, Morning, Lying

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Sacred Poems”, p.257

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• Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing too little to make these points clear rather than too much. Christendom adjusts itself far too easily to the worship of power. Christians should give more offense, shock the world far more, than they are doing now. Christian should take a stronger stand in favor of the weak rather than considering first the possible right of the strong.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Peace, Strong

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• I think it can be fun to be single and date like when you don't want a relationship. Or when you've just gotten out of a relationship, and, after get over the initial shock, you're thinking, hey, it's kind of cool being single.

  Breckin Meyer

  Relationship, Single, Fun

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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 and efficient markets for labor and capital, an entrepreneurial tradition, and a general willingness to tolerate and even embrace technological and economic change all contribute to this resiliency.

  Ben Bernanke

  Change, Technology, Years

  "Letting the air out". www.economist.com. November 19, 2008.

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• 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 of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.

  Alvin Toffler

  Change, Country, Corporations

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• If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Way, Nutcrackers

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• 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 to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.

  George Eliot

  Children, Hero, Believe

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