Shock Quotes - Page 34

• Defy the pundits again and reach for a high voter turnout that'll shock the establishment.

  Bernie Sanders

  Voter Turnout, Voters, Pundits

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Recep Tayyip Erdogan would be considered a gradualist. He is not decreeing Sharia as the law of the land tomorrow. He’s making gradual steps to desecularize the country so it’s not a shock to everyone, doesn’t cause all kinds of panic in the western world and the Europe world. And ISIS might be growing impatient. Even though they’ve been allied over oil and Syria, ISIS could be growing impatient. Then they see the deal with Israel, and they say, “To hell with this.”

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Israel, Isis

  "Scrambling Liberals Don’t Know Who to Blame for the Istanbul Airport Attack". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 29, 2016.

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• I think that in school I was really shy. And even today when people meet me they are shock to see just how not-crazy I am.

  Matt Shultz

  Crazy, School, Thinking

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• I think when my mother died, it was such a - you know, a shock to the logic that I had been raised with.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Mother, Thinking, Logic

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• At the shock of a joke, everything disappears but the present moment.

  Russell Simmons

  Moments, Disappear, Jokes

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• My daughter was a toddler. I had no idea there was anything wrong with kids' media.I started watching little preschool shows with her or G-rated videos or whatever; I couldn't believe what I was seeing, that there seemed to be far more male characters than female characters in what we make for little kids. It was just a shock.

  Geena Davis

  Daughter, Believe, Kids

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• I stand by everything I said. I absolutely can defend my material, and I take issue with people who say, "It's just shock value. It's not even funny." I disagree. There's different ways to be funny and to be a comedian.

  David Cross

  Issues, People, Comedian

  "David Cross on why his comedy tour pissed off people right and left". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2016.

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• "Rock Candy" was my first record. I had never been in a studio, so I was in shock and I had no idea if it was great or if it stunk. I was just putting in my heart and soul, and closing my eyes and keeping my fingers crossed. I gave it everything.

  Sammy Hagar

  Heart, Eye, Rocks

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• Thus, true long-term change is brought about not by destructive passion of the moment but by well-reasoned constructive action. Violent shock of Armageddon that leaves nothing in its wake but a blank slate is not a solution, only a postponement of progress.

  Vera Nazarian

  Passion, Long, Progress

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• A hunter archer can also be out to shock by taking crazy shots. What makes his shots "crazy" is set by excessive risk, judged by hunting-archery standards, which would tend to draw agreement from knowledgeable observers.

  Ernest Sosa

  Crazy, Archer, Hunting

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It's a culture shock to go from obscurity to notoriety in a flash. Its more to it than talent and money; its pressure, stress, enemies, critics; you have to develop relationships and a team. There are all of these things that go along with taking a leap and following your dreams.

  T. D. Jakes

  Dream, Stress, Team

  "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D’Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.

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• Asia is rising economically - and is thirsty for oil. The price pressures on oil and oil price shocks, due to Asia's economic rise, mean that all steps made now to reduce oil dependence will protect us from pain and volatility later.

  Van Jones

  Pain, Mean, Oil

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• 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 Frederic Amiel

  Passion, Men, Iron

  Entry for December 17, 1856. "Journal Intime". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, 1882.

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• Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

  James A. Baldwin

  Change, Literature, Human Nature

  "As Much Truth As One Can Bear". The New York Times Book Review, January 14, 1962.

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• I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Hate, Want, I Hate

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

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• 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.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Light, Sight, Vices

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.64, Oxford University Press

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• A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

  Anna Freud

  Firsts, Madhouses

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• 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

  Loss, Impact, Doe

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• I foresee death by culture shock.

  Woody Allen

  Culture, Culture Shock

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Men, Justice

  Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois

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• Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

  Walter Benjamin

  Giving, Receiver

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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• I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension.

  Marc Chagall

  Psychics, Dimensions, Painting

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• Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Funny, Reading, Book

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.729, Library of America

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• Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied to. Convinced his son had been dishonest regarding an issue, Cosby promised that if he told him the truth, he would not hit him. When his son did confess, Cosby did hit him. Seeing his son's shock and hurt, Cosby said he hoped this lesson had deepened his understanding of the anguish generated by a sense betrayal.

  Bill Cosby

  Hurt, Pain, Betrayal

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• The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the electric spark in the elbow outvalues all theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Volcanoes, Sight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.280, Harvard University Press

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