Shock Quotes - Page 27

• Reading is a gymnasium for the imagination where people can work out, get ready for the shocks of existence. [...] For me, the intimate teachers have not only taught me how to make things, they have represented some qualities of mind and mindfulness that I would like to have.

  Robert Hass

  Teacher, Reading, People

  "Poetry Man". Interview with Joan Smith, www.sfgate.com. March 31, 1996.

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• 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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Compassion, Opposites, Feelings

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1995). “On the Basis of Morality”, p.169, Hackett Publishing

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• This England never did, nor never shall,
  Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror,
  But when it first did help to wound itself.
  Now these her princes are come home again,
  Come the three corners of the world in arms,
  And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue,
  If England to itself do rest but true.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Home, Feet

  'King John' (1591-8) act 5, sc. 7, l. 112

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• There's a lot of stuff that happened to me when I was kinda young. Like when I was just 12, or 13 or so. It might really shock some people. It's an interesting part of my life, I hope it's in the book, I didn't check whether they put it in or not.

  Katie Price

  Book, People, Interesting

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

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• I was in total shock. I work so close [to home] that I figured I'd return to work and the baby nurse would bring the baby to me, and I'd run home periodically, and I'd make it work. But every two hours? That's a whole other level. I'll have to make a nursery at the office.

  Ivanka Trump

  Running, Baby, Home

  Interview with Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 16, 2011.

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

  Emmanuel Levinas

  Miracle, Degrees, Reason

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• Dying is like diving into a deep lake on a hot day. There's the shock of that sharp, cold change, the pain of it for a second, and then accepting is a swim in reality. But after so many times, even the shock wears off.

  Richard Bach

  Pain, Reality, Lakes

  Richard Bach (2013). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.143, Random House

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• Personally making a film solely for the shock value serves no purpose to me.

  Timo Tjahjanto

  Purpose, Film, Values

  Source: collider.com

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• I watch a lot of news, and I watch musical shows because I think the music of the young people is really their news reports. They let you know how their country is going through their eyes, and about their experiences in the everyday shock of growing up.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Country, Growing Up, Eye

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

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• I want to do things that shock people. I think that persona attributes more to the roles that other people may consider me for, rather than the ones I consider for myself.

  T.I.

  Thinking, People, Roles

  Source: collider.com

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• When movie people go over into television, it's a little bit of a shock. It's much faster-paced. Everything is really last-minute. You won't know your schedule for the next episode until the last minute.

  Charisma Carpenter

  People, Schedules, Television

  "Charisma Carpenter Talks THE LYING GAME, HAUNTED HIGH, and the BUFFY Remake". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 28, 2011.

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• What you end up with is outrageousness without the laugh - comedy as electro shock therapy.

  Lenny Bruce

  Laughing, Comedy, Ends

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• Six months after 9/11, Jean-Marie Le Pen was almost elected president of France. There were a number of leaders and a number of parties running in the French national elections that year in the spring of 2002. But it ended up being not just a shock across France, and not just a shock across Europe. But it ended up being almost a worldwide shock when in the spring of 2002, Jean-Marie Le Pen came in second in those national elections. That put him in a two-man runoff for the presidency of France, spring of 2002.

  Rachel Maddow

  Running, Spring, Party

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• I wrestled and played football in high school and in my last year, I started as a wrestler and actually had a fairly good record. But I hated to lose. I always gave it everything I had which, unfortunately, was not as much as I'd hoped for. But keep in mind, I feel like I got the most out of my ability. One moment that was special above all the rest was winning my last bout at the Naval Academy to finish the entire summer undefeated. That was thrilling, but what's more, it helped me in prison because the first time I got knocked around by the Vietnamese, it did not come as a total shock.

  John McCain

  Summer, Football, School

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• I'm so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me! I used to think I was going crazy, until I discovered that some people I admired were like that to.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Crazy, Thinking, People

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• Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy to those lower is nearly always invisible, that is, unnoticed. When it is noticed, it is fully rationalized. Violence done by those lower on the hierarchy to those higher is unthinkable, and when it does occur is regarded with shock, horror, and the fetishization of the victims.

  Derrick Jensen

  Civilization, Doe, Done

  "Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization". Book by Derrick Jensen, January 4, 2011.

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• When that truth of alien intervention in our planet's affairs and our ongoing contact with an alien culture is finally revealed, it won't be frightening even though it will be a shock.

  Philip J. Corso

  Culture, Ongoing, Aliens

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• Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.

  Robert Henri

  Firsts, Surprise, Expected

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• 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.

  Joy-Ann Reid

  Thinking, Wind, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• My altered perception of reality while on psychedelic drugs came as a total shock to me.

  Susan Schneider

  Reality, Drug, Perception

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'm not a nostalgic person for the glory days of 8-track sales at the local K-Mart. But there's a little bit of flattery and a little bit of horror. It's a mixture. It's like sublime shock and awe, but also terror. That's always the way I feel about how music flows through those types of networks. I'm mostly cool with it, but I definitely appreciate when people support the work.

  Tim Hecker

  People, Track, Appreciate

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I can say now is that sneaking up on people is a major delight in my old age, but it always has been. A desire, even a need, to shock.

  Patricia McConnell

  People, Age, Desire

  Source: therumpus.net

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• During World War I the Canadians were the shock troops. In many historical cases, Canadians have been very proficient at killing, and doing what we have to in order to survive. But no one wants to acknowledge that fact.

  Joseph Boyden

  War, Order, Historical

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The trail of "secret migration" was a shock to me. I knew a little about the difficulties, just bits of news in the media.

  Hassan Blasim

  Media, Secret, News

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The pressure to be thin, which causes guilt and obsessiveness around food, is terrible and starts so early. For me, it started at sixteen when I left home and gained weight for the first time and was told by a slightly older boy, out of the blue, that I was "too plump." The shock of that lasted a good long time.

  Kate Christensen

  Home, Boys, Blue

  Source: therumpus.net

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