Shock Quotes - Page 36

• 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.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Believe, Behaving Badly, Humans

  "Destiny's daughter". Interview with Ginny Dougary, www.thetimes.co.uk. April 28, 2007.

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• 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?

  Talal Asad

  Names, Democracy, Doe

  Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Saba Mahmood (2013). “Is Critique Secular?: Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech”, p.10

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• I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words. And the big shock to me has been that although the president said the words, he just did not absorb the ideas. And that is the root of, maybe, everything.

  David Frum

  Ideas, Roots, President

  "Neo Culpa". Interview with David Rose, www.vanityfair.com. December, 2006.

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• Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.

  Bill Walsh

  Sports, Editors, Wake Up

  "Copy Desk: Don Podesta and Bill Walsh". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. February 16, 2005.

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• If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.

  Jane Rule

  Gay, People, Inspire

  Jane Rule (2013). “Outlander: Short Stories and Essays”, p.247, Open Road Media

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• Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Blood, Treatment, Plasma

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• Have you ever had one of those moments when you know that you're being visited by your own future? They come so rarely and with little fanfare, those moments. They're not particularly photogenic. There's no breach in the clouds to reveal the shining city on a hill. No folk dancing children outside your bus, no production values to speak of- just a glimpse of such quotidian, incontrovertible truth that after the initial shock at the supreme weirdness of it all, a kind of calm sets in. So this is to be my life.

  David Rakoff

  Children, Cities, Clouds

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• Ryan Stout, a straight-arrow-looking kind of guy, shocks the crowd into laughter with his inventive interplay between innocence and a jarringly twisted point of view. He goes from loony to weirdly logical. With him, it’s more than clever writing; his comedy is based on clear and clever thinking.

  Ben Fong-Torres

  Laughter, Clever, Writing

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• And the faith that grows out of questioning is stronger than the faith born of blind acceptance. It can withstand the shocks of circumstance. Only he who questions the universe and questions it in utter honesty can grow in his comprehension of the truth.

  James Dillet Freeman

  Honesty, Acceptance, Stronger

  James Dillet Freeman (1955). “Be!”

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• May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise in the whole Earth, until the last shock of time shall bury the empires of the whole world in one common undistinguished ruin!

  Joseph Warren

  Land, Names, Liberty

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• Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work. I need the shock of touch, the resistance of place, materials and weather, the earth as my source. Nature is in a state of change and that change is the key to understanding. I want my art to be sensitive and alert to changes in material, season and weather. Each work grows, stays, decays. Process and decay are implicit. Transience in my work reflects what I find in nature.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Art, Weather, Keys

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• I'm a little bit in shock, to tell you the truth.

  Steven Levitan

  Littles, Bits, Little Bit

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• The duty of a philosopher is clear. He must take every pain to ascertain the truth; and, having arrived at a conclusion, he should noise it abroad far and wide, utterly regardless of what opinions he shocks.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Pain, Noise, Opinion

  Henry Thomas Buckle (1861). “History of civilization in England”, p.476

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• It feels kind of strange knowing that I rule the whole planet of Naboo and I'm only thirteen. At first, my face—because it was really white—was a bit of a shock. But when the whole costume was put together and the headdress was put on, I really felt proud, like a Queen.

  Keisha Castle-Hughes

  Queens, Knowing, White

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• Revival brings back a holy shock to apathy and carelessness.

  Winkie Pratney

  Apathy, Revival, Holy

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• If you are in the job for glamour, you're in for the shock of your life. The media is a huge shark pool.

  Trisha Goddard

  Jobs, Sharks, Media

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• Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.

  Paul Halmos

  Education, Knowledge, Math

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• When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgarden break up.

  Matt Cameron

  Break Up, Pjs, Gone

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• I want to be strong and empowered. I want to shock everybody.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Inspirational, Strong, Want

  "The lovely and talented Vanessa Hudgens", www.foxnews.com.

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• That's what you strive for - you strive to take your move to the next level. It's about shock value, always shock value, but keeping it flavor and stylized and making it yours.

  Crazy Legs

  Moving, Next Level, Flavor

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• The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference.

  Edward T. Hall

  Differences, Vitality, Interest In Life

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• My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.

  Lance Loud

  Quiet, Accepted, Gayness

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• My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

  Lance Loud

  Lust, Reason, Preference

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• It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at the moment when opposite a man (the viewer) there stood for the first time a man (the actor) deceptively similar to us, yet at the same time infinitely foreign, beyond an impassable barrier.

  Tadeusz Kantor

  Men, Opposites, Acting

  Tadeusz Kantor (1993). “A Journey Through Other Spaces: Essays and Manifestos, 1944-1990”, p.114, Univ of California Press

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• You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

  Simon Van Booy

  Pain, Ache, Happened

  Simon Van Booy (2014). “Everything Beautiful Began After”, p.237, Oneworld Publications

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