Shock Quotes - Page 35

• It shocks me when young kids still say, 'I want to do a magazine,'

  Scott Schuman

  Kids, Magazines, Want

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• In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.

  Rowan Williams

  Trust, Fog, Hands

  "I don't come to it with a fixed agenda". www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2002.

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• Tony Blair is a decent man who genuinely thinks what he is doing is justified. But when he sees men such as George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld smirking and boasting as they announce their Shock and Awe offensive, we hope he understands why we believe we have been dragged into something we should have been fighting tooth and nail to stop.

  Piers Morgan

  Believe, Fighting, Men

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• An ecosystem, you can always intervene and change something in it, but there's no way of knowing what all the downstream effects will be or how it might affect the environment. We have such a miserably poor understanding of how the organism develops from its DNA that I would be surprised if we don't get one rude shock after another.

  Richard Lewontin

  Dna, Ecosystems, Gmos

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• Having translated two plays by Chekhov, and not speaking Russian myself - I cannot say one sentence. This may shock people... However, I am not shocked, as it is not hard to find out what the words mean.

  Tom Stoppard

  Mean, Play, Two

  Source: news.postimees.ee

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• I guess I prefer the laughs. I couldn't do a whole set of just shocks, but I like throwing a fastball inside every now and then to keep people on their toes.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  People, Laughing, Toes

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 9, 2013.

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• Books can create a depth of story, a background of information and ideas, that televison and movies can't. Sure, the television shows may shock, but only on a superficial level. They'd never risk market share to really explore the issues. They report, but don't analyze or suggest any new ways for living our lives.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, Ideas, Issues

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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• Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will; if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sad, Men, Animal

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.6, Penguin UK

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• The problem is that, in a world of floating exchange rates, as Italy was before the euro, if one country is subjected to a shock which requires it to cut wages, it cannot do so with a modern kind of control and regulation system. It is much easier to do it by letting the exchange rate change. Only one price has to change, instead of many.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Cutting, Floating

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I use the [vulgar] words because apparently these words do not corrupt morally. I'm from the street in New York, hung around in a tough neighborhood. It was common to curse, you make your point. It's a very effective language. I try not to overdo it. It's never to shock. I know where it fits, it's never to shock. There's no shock value left in words.

  George Carlin

  New York, Trying, Use

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Humor is based on surprise, and surprise is a milder way of saying shock. It's surprise that makes the joke.

  George Carlin

  Way, Surprise, Jokes

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Indeed, everything was a shock at the beginning. The wash machines, dryers, dishwashers, garbage disposal machines, juicers, toasters, and yes, the ATM machines. Watching money spilled out of a wall was simply amazing!

  Li Cunxin

  Wall, Garbage Disposal, Toasters

  Source: tacdc.com.au

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• I did go to Vietnam in 2000 as a kind of pilgrimage and to feel my generation was very much a part of this. I felt responsible but also connected and empathetic. It was a very complicated relationship we had, whichever side you were on. The shock of being there was very few people my own age - I was primarily in the North in the streets of Hanoi. A whole generation was essentially decimated.

  Anne Waldman

  People, Age, Complicated Relationship

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• I loved the city, so the feeling in 2001 [election] first was shock, then (I was) nervous, then scared but then it's - I really wasn't happy and ecstatic like I thought I (would be). I was immediately hit with the enormity of the responsibility and the fact that most people in that town - particularly those that voted for me were placing their hopes and dreams in me. That is a big, big stressful place to be.

  Kwame Kilpatrick

  Dream, Responsibility, Cities

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• I'm always working on something new and while I'm working, I'm absorbed with my characters, their conflicts,my language and settings. I'm in another place and it is a shock to come out and consider my previous works.

  Sefi Atta

  Character, Language, Conflict

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• Muslims have not ever been told to examine their faith in a critical way, so the shock is going to be even greater for them, as it is for any child who lives in an over-protected environment, who suddenly has to go out and earn a living and has to stand up on his own feet.

  Ibn Warraq

  Children, Feet, Way

  Source: ibnwarraq.com

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• For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose of a painting and of art in general.

  Pierre Soulages

  Art, Imagination, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That small word "Force," they make a barber's block, Ready to put on Meanings most strange and various, fit to shock Pupils of Newton.... The phrases of last century in this Linger to play tricks- Vis viva and Vis Mortua and Vis Acceleratrix:- Those long-nebbed words that to our text books still Cling by their titles, And from them creep, as entozoa will, Into our vitals. But see! Tait writes in lucid symbols clear One small equation; And Force becomes of Energy a mere Space-variation.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Block, Book, Writing

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• The only thing that shocks me is public interest in people who shouldn't be interesting at all, like Jade Goody. We've gone past Andy Warhol and all those clever, arty and witty things that were done and said in the sixties...the fifteen minutes, and so on. Now your celebrities don't have to do anything, they're just voted in. And that shocks me.

  Marco Pirroni

  Witty, Clever, Past

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I've never thought of myself as an actor, so somebody recognizing me for that would be a real shock.

  Lena Dunham

  Real, Would Be, Actors

  "EMMYS: Lena Dunham On 'Girls'". Interview with Charlie Mason, deadline.com. June 17, 2012.

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• One fella went on the internet and got lots of photos of me in Love Actually, topless and naked and stuff, printed them off, stuck them on A4 paper, laminated them and sent them to me for me to sign. I was away and asked my husband to open all my mail for me, so he got quite a shock. And another man sent me a picture of a face where the nose was a willy.

  Joanna Page

  Husband, Men, Photo Of Me

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• With the shock of war the state comes into its own again.

  Randolph Bourne

  War, Political, Politics

  Randolph Silliman Bourne (1919). “Untimely Papers”

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• It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.

  Christopher Morley

  Life, Men, Thinking

  Christopher Morley (1938). “History of an Autumn”, J.B. Lippincott

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• Here Shock, the pride of all his kind, is laid, Who fawned like man, but ne'er like man betrayed.

  John Gay

  Friendship, Dog, Pride

  John Gay, “An Elegy On A Lap-Dog”

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• But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.

  Lord Byron

  Tired, Men, World

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.36, Sheba Blake Publishing

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