Quotes about Shocks

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions. Votes: 2

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks. Votes: 2

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true. Votes: 2

One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over. Votes: 2

We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean. Votes: 2

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. Votes: 2

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters. Votes: 2

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. Votes: 2

Nothing shocks me anymore. I've embraced men in thongs, I've embraced women with padded bras. I mean, I can embrace Larry King saying 'fierce.' Votes: 2

I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me. Votes: 2

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue. Votes: 2

Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's as though I don't learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me. Votes: 2

What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change. Votes: 2

From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle. Votes: 2

But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large, flexible markets. And it's important to acknowledge the fact that the entire energy supply chain needs to be protected. Votes: 2

What really shocks me, what I can honestly sit back and ponder for hours in a lot of cases is just, 'Why would you film yourself doing that? Who put you up to that? What are you getting out of that?' Votes: 2

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. Votes: 2

Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work. Votes: 2

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497. Votes: 2

If children can't handle competition when it's necessary, or take some criticism, or never strive to be better because their parents inadvertently programmed them to believe they are already the best even when they're not, then they are in for some serious shocks and bumps down the road. Votes: 2

I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can't afford serious shocks right now. Votes: 2

For all the popularity of spiritual advisers in South Korea, it still shocks to see the leaders of huge public companies relying on fortune-tellers. A shaman may advise a struggling executive to move a building's front entrance, tapping the widespread pungsu belief that your luck depends on the direction of your house. Votes: 2

Most of the time, your risk management works. With a systemic event such as the recent shocks following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, obviously the risk-management system of any one bank appears, after the fact, to be incomplete. We ended up where banks couldn't liquidate their risk, and the system tended to freeze up. Votes: 2

The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies. Votes: 2

My mom grew up with horses, and when I turned 14, 15, she's like, 'Do you want to take a riding lesson?' I thought, 'Oh, gross, dirty.' She was like, 'Okay.' And then I did, and now I'm the one cleaning those damn stalls out. You can't get me away from the barn now. It shocks even me. Votes: 2

The brain sits snugly inside the skull, but it's not a completely flush fit - there is still a layer of fluid between bone and soft tissue that serves as a natural shock absorber. Some shocks, however, can't be absorbed, and when the head gets clobbered too hard, the brain can twist or torque or rattle around inside its skeletal casing. Votes: 2

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions. Votes: 0

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist. Votes: 0

Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer. Votes: 0

Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing. Votes: 0

I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me. Votes: 0

What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet. Votes: 0

I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore! Votes: 0

Who burns me and shocks me and shatters me with a single touch. Votes: 0

My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on. Votes: 0

A truly great magazine cover surprises, even shocks, and connects in a nano-second. Votes: 0

It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back. Votes: 0

You often see shocks in the League Cup, even when you don't expect them Votes: 0

I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all. Votes: 0

Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals. Votes: 0

It shocks me when young kids still say, 'I want to do a magazine,' Votes: 0

Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence. Votes: 0

Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence Votes: 0

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you. Votes: 0

If you didn't sit with your head in the clouds so perpetually you wouldn't get so many shocks. Votes: 0

Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better. Votes: 0

Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Votes: 0

A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it. Votes: 0

Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning. Votes: 0

The snow has quietness in it; no songs, no smells, no shouts or traffic. When I speak my own voice shocks me. Votes: 0

The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains. Votes: 0

It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves, And, like living coals, the apples Burned among the withering leaves. Votes: 0

There's a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me. People want a relationship with you that they haven't earned. Votes: 0

Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks. Votes: 0

It is true fortitude to stand firm against All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die In fear to suffer more calamity. Votes: 0

I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does. Votes: 0

Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view. Votes: 0

The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level. Votes: 0

I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like? We don't even know Votes: 0

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility. Votes: 0

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading. Votes: 0

The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security, but especially no big surprises, no shocks. Votes: 0

I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married in real life. So both are shocks to me. Votes: 0

And also I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly. Votes: 0

The type of religion which rejoices in the pious sound of traditional phrases, regardless of their meanings, or shrinks from "controversial" matters, will never stand amid the shocks of life. Votes: 0

A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road. Votes: 0

What Martin Shkreli will end up if he does wind up going to prison. I think that`s I think what shocks a lot of people, that this is perfectly legal. Votes: 0

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence. Votes: 0

A man can only grow to a certain point when alone; to grow further you need some "irrational shocks", like a wife and children; a dramatic change to your own life. Votes: 0

Why is it that aggression in the name of God shocks secular liberal sensibilities, whereas the act of killing in the name of the secular nation, or of democracy, does not? Votes: 0

Laughter lifts our spirits, surprises and sometime shocks our expectations, allows us to cross boundaries, reorders our priorities, and gives us access to ideas and associations we rarely ever thought to have. Votes: 0

A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion. Votes: 0

I love America, and I love American women. But there is one thing that deeply shocks me - American closets. I cannot believe one can dress well when you have so much. Votes: 0

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue. Votes: 0

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue. Votes: 0

Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense. Votes: 0

But while ignorance can make you insensitive, familiarity can also numb. Entering the second half-century of an information age, our cumulative knowledge has changed the level of what appalls, what stuns, what shocks. Votes: 0

Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the branding-iron, stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines. Votes: 0

To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. Votes: 0

The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected. Votes: 0

Scared ya, did I? Aw, that's sweet. Don't worry the shocks won't kill me," she whispered. "They only make me stronger. Anyway, it was worth it to give that cow a black eye, ya know? Votes: 0

For what wears out the life of mortal men? 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls; Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, Exhaust the energy of strongest souls And numb the elastic powers. Votes: 0

The SPR is intended to provide relief at times when working families are struggling to make ends meet, and to counter the price shocks that accompany severe supply disruptions. Now is undoubtedly such a time. Votes: 0