Shock Quotes - Page 11

Look at what Bush has done. The economy took an incredible hit after September 11. That was a huge shock to the economy. And we've recovered a lot quicker than we thought, thanks to Bush and his economic policy.

Christine O'Donnell

September 11, Looks, Done

"The Phil Donahue Show", November 22, 2002.

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To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

Carl Jung

Learning, Personality, Terrible

Carl Gustav Jung, Mary Foote (1976). “The visions seminars: from the complete notes of Mary Foote”

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In the final analysis courage is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence, to the shocks which it is necessary to bear for the sake of realizing one's own nature.

Kurt Goldstein

Courage, Bravery, Finals

"Human Nature in the Light of Psychopathology".

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I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your craving, your anxiety, your inability to love the world, your hesitation to serve, your jealousy, all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines.

Sathya Sai Baba

Depression, Spiritual, Inability To Love

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Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don't recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I got a big shock. They put me in with this rough, tough veteran called Lionel Byarm. He tested me to the limit. But I fought my heart out and, in the end, I prevailed. The story of my life, in my very first fight.

Evander Holyfield

Heart, Fighting, Garden

FaceBook post by Evander Holyfield from Nov 15, 2015

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Through my attempt to get pregnant through IVF, we sadly found out that I have early stages of breast cancer. It's been a shock.

Giuliana Rancic

Cancer, Ivf, Found

Giuliana Rancic (2015). “Going Off Script: How I Survived a Crazy Childhood, Cancer, and Clooney's 32 On-Screen Rejections”, p.182, Crown Archetype

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But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.

Herbie Mann

Cancer, Mean, People

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When I was younger, living in an all-black neighborhood the other kids thought I was better than them because of my light skin and straight hair. Then we moved to an all-white neighborhood and that was a culture shock ... I'd been used to being around all black kids.

Halle Berry

Kids, White, Light

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It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

James A. Baldwin

Racism, Age, World

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Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.

Thomas Noon Talfourd

Rain, Rivers, Giving

Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1837). “Ion: A Tragedy in Five Acts”, p.16

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Having an identity at work separate from an identity at home means that the work role can help absorb some of the emotional shock of domestic distress. Even a mediocre performance at the office can help a person repair self-esteem damaged in domestic battles.

Faye J Crosby

Self Esteem, Home, Mean

Faye J. Crosby (1993). “Juggling: the unexpected advantages of balancing career and home for women and their families”, Touchstone

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Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities. A scream is not a discovery.

John L'Heureux

Real, Discovery, Expression

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The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions - but in many ways it left even deeper scars both on the mind and on the map of Europe. The old world never recovered from the shock.

Edmond Taylor

War, Europe, Mind

Edmond Taylor (2015). “The Fall of the Dynasties: The Collapse of the Old Order: 1905-1922”, p.312, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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Rhyme to kill, rhyme to murder, rhyme to stomp,
Rhyme to ill, rhyme to romp,
Rhyme to smack, rhyme to shock, rhyme to roll,
Rhyme to destroy anything, toy boy.
On the microphone:
I'm Poppa Large, big shot on the East Coast.

Kool Keith

Rap, Boys, Hip Hop

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After the stretch of weather we've had, this is going to be a culture shock for some people. We always end up crashing back to reality.

Paul Gross

Reality, Weather, People

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Obviously, I think it was an aberration, but it is a reality. We're still a team that won nine games, but this one was a real shock.

Larry Coker

Real, Team, Thinking

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No higher proof exists of the strength of popular government than, though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional successor is peacefully installed without shock or strain.

Chester A. Arthur

Government, People, Presidential

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Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another's net.

Michel de Montaigne

Giving, Water, Ruins

Michel de Montaigne, Antoine JAY (1842). “The Complete Works of Michael de Montaigne; Comprising; the Essays, Translated by Cotton; the Letters; the Journey Into Germany and Italy, Now First Translated; a Life by the Editor; Notes: ... Critical Opinions; ... the Éloges of MM. Jay and Villemain; a”, p.46

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... although many people say it is a terrible onus to be labeled bad as a child, I thought that the opposite must be worse: If you knew early that you had wickedness in you, you could learn to accept it, if not to wrestle against it. But if you believed that you were essentially good, then when you finally found the ocean of evil in yourself, surely it would come as a terrible shock.

Paula Sharp

Children, Ocean, Opposites

Paula Sharp (2001). “I Loved You All: A Novel”, Hyperion

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Beauty is like a train that ceaselessly roars out of the Gare de Lyon and which I know will never leave, which has not left. It consists of jolts and shocks, many of which do not have much importance, but which we know are destined to produce one Shock, which does...The human heart, beautiful as a seismograph...Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all.

Andre Breton

Beautiful, Heart, Doe

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Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Resilience, Get Better, Resilient

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.3, Random House

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Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.

Bill Gates

Technology, Electric Shock, Discipline

"The PWOT Bill Gates Interview". Interview with Andrew Lephter, slated.org. April 5, 2008.

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Only curiosity about the fate of others, the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, and the will to enter their world through the magic of imagination, creates this shock of recognition. Without this empathy there can be no genuine dialogue, and we as individuals and nations will remain isolated and alien, segregated and fragmented.

Azar Nafisi

Fate, Shoes, Imagination

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The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction.

Henri Matisse

Spring, Artist, Lightning

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Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers.

Learned Hand

Upset, Taste, Furniture

Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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