Shock Quotes - Page 9

• It's good to shock. It's not good to always be careful. It's good to disturb a little.

  Ellen von Unwerth

  Littles, Be Careful, Careful

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• What a shock that a guy who makes $2 million a week behaves exactly like I would with $2 million a week. As far as I’m concerned, if you make $2 million a week and you don’t have a hooker in your hotel room, you’re creepy and I don’t trust you. And I don’t do drugs at all, so for me it would just be more prostitutes. That’s how they would find me. I would be dead on the floor, flattened by a pile of prostitutes. I’d look like a cat in a hoarders’ house.

  Jim Norton

  Cat, House, Guy

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• Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.

  Bob Geldof

  Rocks, People, Needs

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• Considering the way the prebiotic soup is referred to in so many discussions of the origin of life as an already established reality, it comes as something of a shock to realize that there is absolutely no positive evidence for its existence.

  Michael Denton

  Reality, Origin Of Life, Soup

  Michael Denton (2002). “Evolution: A Theory in Crisis”, Adler & Adler Pub

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• I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I'm going to shock a few people, win a lot of people over.

  John Lone

  Winning, People, Clue

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• My plan is to shock people with what I can do, because I've got a few sides to me that I've never used on screen.

  Lucy Lawless

  People, Sides, Used

  "Saturday interview: Lucy Lawless - Xena the Ecowarrior" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you traveled. This will come to you as a profound shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister.

  Douglas Adams

  Sister, Time, Brother

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.706, Pan Macmillan

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• Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.

  Richard Adams

  Children, Pain, Doe

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.187, Oneworld Publications

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• The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Attitude, War, America

  "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives". Book by Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1997.

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• I've been offered nymphomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs, homicidal maniacs and just plain maniacs. I think producers felt that after playing a long series of noble and admirable characters there would be quite a lot of shock value in seeing me play something altogether different. But I prefer upbeat stories that send people out of the theater feeling better than they did coming in. It's my cup of tea.

  Greer Garson

  Character, Feel Better, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Real, Fire, Doe

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• The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Inevitable

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• The physical shock took away the pain of being.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Pain

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• My husband, Andrius, says that evil will rule until good men or women choose to act. I believe him. This testimony was written to create an absolute record, to speak in a world where our voices have been extinguished. These writing may shock or horrify you, but that is not my intention. It is my greatest hope that the pages in this jar stir your deepest well of human compassion. I hope they prompt you to do something, to tell somone. Only then can we ensure that this kind of evil is never allowed to repeat itself.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Husband, Believe, Writing

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• The CIA agent looked more dead than alive. Alex wondered if he had been hit, but there was no sign of any blood. Perhaps he was in shock.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Blood, Cia Agents, Alex

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• Grabbing hold of facts in the midst of shock is very Erudite of him.

  Veronica Roth

  Facts, Midst, Grabbing

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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• You may have succeeded in shutting down the attack simulation, girl, but it was by luck alone, not skill. I would die of shock if you managed to do anything useful again for a long time" This is the Marcus that Tobias knows. The one who knows right where to hit to cause the most damage.

  Veronica Roth

  Girl, Skills, Long

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.33, HarperCollins UK

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• A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which the forthrightness of the Victorians can give a modern.

  Margery Allingham

  Giving, Modern, Deals

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• It's not Cam's fault," Bex told her. "We rigged her bed so that if she gets up, I get an electric shock." "Liz designed it," Macey said, and Bex shrugged "We told you we were taking precautions." Of course. Because at Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy".

  Ally Carter

  Electric Shock, Faults, Bed

  Ally Carter (2012). “Gallagher Girls: Out of Sight, Out of Time”, p.103, Hachette UK

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• I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Memories, Air, Oxygen

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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