Shock Quotes - Page 15

• When we hit a nail with a hammer, the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into the point without any of it being lost, although it is only a point. If the hammer and the head of the nail were infinitely big it would be just the same. The point of the nail would transmit this infinite shock at the point to which it was applied. Extreme affliction, which means physical pain, distress of soul and social degradation, all at the same time, constitutes the nail. The point is applied at the very center of the soul, whose head is all necessity, spreading throughout space and time.

  Simone Weil

  Pain, Mean, Space

  "Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)".

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• 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.

  Elihu Root

  Animal, Men, Aggravation

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• Only artists without talent try to shock people.

  Nobuyoshi Araki

  Artist, People, Trying

  "Crossing Boundaries: An Interview with Nobuyoshi Araki". Interview with Hyewon Yi, quod.lib.umich.edu. October 28, 2010.

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• The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.

  Susan Sontag

  Atrocities, Firsts, Surprise

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.21, Macmillan

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• Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Men, Discovery, Innovation

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• Ah, but you, Darkness, you know all this. I tell you night after night. Nothing will shock you. Maybe I go on at you in the hope that there's something beyond you. Some nights I sit here and talk and sob and stare out into the blackness thinking that if I look hard enough I'll see the light behind. But I stay out until the break of day, waiting, hoping, and there's only sunrise again.

  Tim Winton

  Art, Night, Thinking

  Tim Winton (2011). “In the Winter Dark”, p.108, Pan Macmillan

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• Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

  Susan Sontag

  Photograph, Novel, Shows

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.20, Macmillan

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• The habit of quietly absorbing the shocks will be quite a great help to stabilize pure awareness.
  The technique is: Just feel not disturbed.
  The disturbing influence could be a blessing of Mother Nature to develop the habit to make
  best use out of every situation.
  Every situation is God Sent. With this supreme wisdom of life any situation can be used
  to our advantage and regarded as a blessing of Mother Nature.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Mother, Blessing, Technique

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• Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. A little twitch in our optic nerve, a shock effect: twenty-four illuminated frames a second, darkness in between, the optic nerve incapable of registering darkness.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Dream, Art, Twilight

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• Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. It's a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But not only of loss and mourning. It's also a memory of bravery and self-sacrifice, and the love that lays down its life for a friend-even a friend whose name it never knew.

  George W. Bush

  Memories, Loss, Sacrifice

  The World Will Always Remember 9/11, delivered 11 December 2011

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• Color me! Accessorize me! Shock me!

  Anna Dello Russo

  Color

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• I'd learned something... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me... and others. This was valuable information.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Please Me, Inspire, Delight

  Anthony Bourdain (2013). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.18, A&C Black

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• Anything that you can shock somebody with. The only way to change something is to shock it. If you want your muscles to grow, you have to shock them. If you want society to change, you have to shock them.

  Jaden Smith

  Want, Way, Muscles

  "Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School Is Overrated". Interview with Su Wu, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.

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• What's great about well-written material is, if you can shock with justifiable actions, that's the best.

  Bryan Cranston

  Action, Wells, Materials

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 13, 2011.

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• You’re far more likely to see a naked woman than a naked man. It’s only [seen as] rude because the rest of television is rather tame – it doesn’t actually talk about sex and our bodies and how we feel about them. I’m not out to shock.

  Russell T Davies

  Sex, Men, Rude

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• The ones as big as sheep were easier to avoid, because you could see them coming, but when they flew in at the window and curled up under your eiderdown, and you did not find them till you went to bed, it was always a shock. The ones this size did not eat people, only lettuces, but they always scorched the sheets and pillowcases dreadfully.

  E. Nesbit

  Sheep, Dragons, People

  E. Nesbit (2016). “THE BOOK OF DRAGONS: 8 Dragon Tales from Edith Nesbit author The Railway Children”, p.54, Abela Publishing Ltd

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• If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world.

  Caterina Sforza

  Writing, Stories, World

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• If youre a sugar addict like most people, you need to read Beyond Sugar Shock. This compassionate, comforting, uplifting book will change your life.

  Kathy Smith

  Uplifting, Book, People

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• Miley Cyrus, like all of us, needs to be loved. We all come from complicated parents I understand her, and I love her, and I think things will be different with her. But you know, in the music business, sometimes you have to shock a little.

  Richard Simmons

  Thinking, Parent, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Robot Wars is not a sport. Guys just play with remote controls. Now, if they were wired up and got an electrical shock each time their robot got hammered, then, yes, it would be a sport.

  Paolo Di Canio

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• Assuming that tomorrow will be the same as today is poor preparation for living. It equips us only for disappointment or, more likely, for shock. To live well, to be mentally healthy, we must learn to realize that life is a work in process.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Disappointment, Healthy, Preparation

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• Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Kings, Order

  Alexander Pope (1836). “Poetical Works, to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.109

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• He took a moment to get over the shock, and to remind himself that this had surely been difficult for her and she was probably bracing herself for a rejection. At least he hoped she was. If she wasn't, she needed to do that straight away, because it was coming. God damn right it was coming.

  Julianne MacLean

  Rejection, Moments, Damn

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• If I am lucky, something new and inexplicable often appears in front of my lens. I am always surprised by the mystery of how my best images appear. That excitement and shock of discovery makes my life at these moments a gift.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Discovery, Lenses

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• It's always a pleasure to imagine an idea and work alongside a brand like G-Shock to make it a reality. G-Shock continues to push the bar with design and technology and that inspires me to do the same with my riding and visuals.

  Nigel Sylvester

  Technology, Reality, Ideas

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