Quotes with shock

  • It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.
  • Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.
  • Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
  • Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
  • It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
  • It's cool to be different and just be who you are and shock people in a good way.
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Anna Freud A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • George Eliot Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, 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
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Augustus Hare Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Carl Rowan Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.
    Inside Washington, March 20, 1993.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Norman Mailer Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Bob Geldof 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
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Alvin Toffler Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • Walter Benjamin Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • George W. Bush I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.
    George W. Bush
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Bruno Dumont I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock with the audience. I don't care of the meaning. I don't care of the idea. I don't want to say something. I want to make a 'shock physique.'
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Campbell Brown It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Camilla Belle It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.
    Camilla Belle
    Brazilian-American actress, director and producer (1986 - )
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  • Belinda Carlisle It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.
    Belinda Carlisle
    American singer, musician, and author (1958 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Brendon Urie It's cool to be different and just be who you are and shock people in a good way.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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  • Anne Grant Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.
    Anne Grant
    Scottish poet and author (1755 - 1838)
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  • Alvin Toffler Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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