Electric Shock Quotes

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Hate, Men, Bad Mood

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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, Discipline, Doe

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

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• I don't need a diet pill. I need something that gives you an electric shock when you reach for food.

  Joy Behar

  Giving, Pills, Needs

  Twitter post from Sep 26, 2012

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• Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to stress the similarities between humans and other animals in order to claim that their experiments may have some relevance for human purposes. The experimenter who forces rats to choose between starvation and electric shock to see if they develop ulcers (which they do) does so because the rat has a nervous system very similar to a human being's, and presumably feels an electric shock in a similar way.

  Peter Singer

  Stress, Animal, Order

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• 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.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Empty Rooms, White, Silence

  Jacob M. Appel (2014). “Phoning Home: Essays”, p.62, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• His (Swami Vivekananda) words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I cannot touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books, at thirty years' distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports, must have been produced when in burning words they issued from the lips of the hero!

  Romain Rolland

  Distance, Hero, Book

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• When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact with it.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heart, Purpose, Matter

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)”, p.1018, Delphi Classics

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• Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people like an electric shock when they first meet, but something quieter and gentler, like two tiny lights traveling in tandem through a vast darkness and drawing imperceptibly closer to each other as they go. As our meetings grew more frequent, I felt not so much that I had met someone new as that I had chanced upon a dear old friend.

  Haruki Murakami

  Strong, Two, Drawing

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”, p.223, Random House

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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

  Faults, Bed, Liz

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

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• ...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. Can you tell me what kind of day can follow a beginning of such violence? What happens to people whose alarm clock daily gives them a small electric shock? Each day they become more used to violence and less used to pleasure.

  Milan Kundera

  Morning, Sleep, Blow

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• When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was new - it was singular - it was simple!'.

  Horatio Nelson

  Simple, Tears, Fame

  Horatio Nelson (2012). “The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Vol II. With A Supplement Of Interesting Letters By Distinguished Characters”, p.69, tredition

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