Shock Quotes - Page 9

• It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves, And, like living coals, the apples Burned among the withering leaves.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Autumn, Apples, Coal

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.137

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• The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.

  Peter Drucker

  Vision, Paradox, Prophet

  Peter F. Drucker (1999). “Adventures of a Bystander”, p.255, Transaction Publishers

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• Lilacs, False Blue, White, Purple,
  Colour of lilac,
  Your great puffs of flowers
  Are everywhere in this my New England ...
  Lilacs in dooryards
  Holding quiet conversation with an early moon;
  Lilacs watching a deserted house; ...
  Lilacs, wind-beaten, staggering under a lopsided shock of bloom,
  You are everywhere.

  Amy Lowell

  Spring, Flower, Moon

  Amy Lowell, “Lilacs”

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• Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Attitude, Adversity

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• It's actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me.

  Phil Collins

  Music, People, Don't Like Me

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

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• It would not lessen the shock and concern, but it would be something concrete in addition to the apologies.

  Celso Amorim

  Apology, Would Be, Concrete

  "Straw 'very sorry' over shooting", www.cnn.com. July 26, 2005.

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• One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

  Jack Abbott

  Good Morning, Forgotten, Psychological

  Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

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• It's not that I'm deliberately trying to shock people all the time. I'm just doing things that are obvious to me. It's because the public doesn't understand my way of thinking that they get surprised.

  Takafumi Horie

  Thinking, People, Innovation

  "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. November 23, 2005.

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• Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and make loud "snort" noises.) I don't know why parents don't do this more often. Usually it makes the kid laugh. Sometimes it sends him into shock. Either way it quiets him down. If you're a parent, acting like a rhino has another advantage. Keep it up until the kid is a teenager and he definitely won't have his friends hanging around your house all the time.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Mom, Baby

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• Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Three, World

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

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• There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

  F. H. Bradley

  Gossip, Scandal, Interest

  "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley (Aphorism No. 20), 1930.

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• Going into that race I was going for the world record, just quietly, but I wasn't feeling at my best all week so it was hard to determine what would happen. I could not believe it, I went into shock, I'm still in shock.

  Leisel Jones

  Motivational, Sports, Believe

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• Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

  Robert Browning

  Rocks, Water, Joy

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

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• Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shock, no drama, just the lifting of a plank or two in a simple wooden gate in a clearing. Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow.

  Mark Helprin

  Death, Prayer, Pain

  Mark Helprin (1991). “A Soldier of the Great War”, Harcourt

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• We will suffer a sharp painful disullisionment before we fully surrender. When people really see themselves as the Lord sees them, it is not the terribly offensive sins of the fleshthat shock them, but the awful nature of the pride of their own hearts opposing Jesus Christ. When they see themselves in the light of the Lord, the shame, the horror, and desperate conviction hit home for them.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Home, Heart

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• In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Angel, Rocks, Anchors

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.130

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• I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course.

  Ruth Warrick

  Birthday, Fun, People

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• The attacks on Sept. 11 really sent a shock wave through our economy, and the full reverberation of that is not yet known.

  Elaine Chao

  Wave, Economy, Sept 11

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• When a person you love moves by you with flat eyes that will not see you, it is a shock to believe it.

  Susan Minot

  Believe, Moving, Eye

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• You often see shocks in the League Cup, even when you don’t expect them

  Jan Mølby

  League, Cups

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• Every person in the world is by nature a slave to sin.  The world, by nature, is held in sin's grip.  What a shock to our complacency- that everything of us by nature belongs to sin.  Our silences belong to sin, our omissions belong to sin, our talents belong to sin, our actions belong to sin.  Every facet of our personalities belong to sin; it own us and dominates us.  We are its servants.

  Joel Beeke

  Omission, Silence, Personality

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• Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

  Harrison Ford

  Statistics, Scientist

  "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom". www.imdb.com. 1984.

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• I even had breasts that had mechanisms that could make them droop. It was a shock in the beginning. Talk about special effects!

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Special, Breasts, Effects

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• I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don't do things to shock people. I'm not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don't know how long I'm going to be on this planet. So while I'm here, I might as well make the most of it.

  Eminem

  Thinking, Long, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's definitely a shock to go from being 15 in high school to working. There's no real cushion there. There's no preparation at all. You learn by doing.

  Emma Stone

  Real, School, Preparation

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