Shock Quotes - Page 7

• Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.

  Jared Diamond

  Rhinos, Troops, Empires

  Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.352, W. W. Norton & Company

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• He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must have let myself get mixed up in something horrible, he thought ... Probably she's the one who did it; I have no control of myself or anything that's happened. So now I'm waking up. I'm awake, he thought ... I've been destroyed and now that I'm awake all I can do is realize it ... The shock of getting up there and telling that account made me see. Mixture of lies and bits of truth. Woven together. Unable to see where each starts.

  Philip K. Dick

  Lying, People, Together

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• Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

  David Hume

  Pasión, Humildad, Orgullo

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.522, Delphi Classics

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• Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don't start off being all that lovable, if we're honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn't it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them.

  William Nicholson

  Selfish, Here I Am, People

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• Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Strong, Passion, Wind

  Charlotte Bronte “Annotated Jane Eyre: An Autobiography with English Grammar Exercises: by Charlotte Bronte (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Te asusté, ¿verdad? Qué dulce. No te preocupes, las descargas no me matarán", susurró. "Sólo me hacen más fuerte. De todos modos, valió la pena ponerle un ojo morado a esa vaca, ¿sabes?

  Lauren Kate

  Dulce, Ojo, Dar

  Lauren Kate (2013). "La serie Fallen: Colección de 4 libros", p.51, Delacorte Press.

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• Las palabras, a pesar de ser endebles e invisibles, tenían una gran fuerza. Podían fortificarse como la muralla de un castillo y afilarse como un florete. Podían morder, abofetear, conmocionar, herir. Pero, a diferencia de los hechos, las palabras no podían ayudarte realmente. Ninguna promesa rescataba a una persona; era el cumplimiento de la misma lo que traía la salvación.

  Jodi Picoult

  Muro, Promesa, Castillos

  Jodi Picoult (2003). "Segunda mirada: A Novel", p.396, Simon and Schuster

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• You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You have both sentiments yet to experience: your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be given which shall waken it.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Love You, Sleep, Missing

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). "Las hermanas Bronte: Tres novelas: Jane Eyre; Cumbres borrascosas; y Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)", p.120, Penguin

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• Lucy swayed in shock. A gust of wind moaned through the conservatory and blew out all but one of her candles. Simon must have done this. He’d destroyed his fairyland conservatory. Why? She sank to her knees, huddled on the cold floor, her one remaining flame cradled in her numb palms. She’d seen how tenderly Simon had cared for his plants. Remembered the look of pride when she’d first discovered the dome and fountain. For him to have smashed all this . . . He must have lost hope. All hope.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Pride, Flames, Wind

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• Cuando se rompe una de mis tazas de té japonesas, imagino que la causa real no fue la mano descuidada de una criada, sino las ansiedades de las figuras que habitan las curvas de esa porcelana. Su sombría decisión de suicidarse no me escandaliza: utilizaron a la criada como uno de nosotros podría utilizar una pistola.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Suicidio, Real, Arma

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• Henry," said Charlotte, who appeared to have recovered from her shock, "if you set yourself on fire deliberately, I will institute divorce proceedings. Now sit down and eat your supper. And say hello to our guest.

  Cassandra Clare

  Divorce, Fire, Guests

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• I know it may come as a shock, but it's sort of considered polite to wait for the consent of the woman. In fact, I'm pretty sure that if you don't wait, you may have to deal with pesky criminal charges like kidnapping and rape.

  Ilona Andrews

  Waiting, Criminals, May

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• She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Individual, Disappear

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• For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word “Book’s” with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly private emotional process similar to the stages of bereavement, though greatly accelerated. First there is shock. Within seconds, shock gives way to disbelief, disbelief to pain, and pain to anger. Finally (and this is where the analogy breaks down), anger gives way to a righteous urge to perpetrate an act of criminal damage with the aid of a permanent marker.

  Lynne Truss

  Pain, Book, Emotional

  "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation". Book by Lynne Truss, www.newyorker.com. 2003.

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• There is, though, nothing that prepares us for the worst things in our life. There is nothing you can do to stop the shock, or buffer the pain.

  James Frey

  Pain, Worst, Can Do

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• Pero no se puede hacer una carrera de cinco horas de esa manera; hay que relajarse, como se relaja el cuerpo en un baño caliente, hasta que deja de resistirse al choque y empieza a disfrutarlo.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Relax, Hot

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.69, Profile Books

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• Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Real, Fire, Doe

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• Lo inevitable no es menos impactante por el hecho de serlo.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Inevitable

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• The physical shock took away the pain of being.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Dolor

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). "Engleby: A Novel", Doubleday Books

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• My husband, Andrius, says that evil will rule until good men or women choose to act. I believe him. This testimony was written to create an absolute record, to speak in a world where our voices have been extinguished. These writing may shock or horrify you, but that is not my intention. It is my greatest hope that the pages in this jar stir your deepest well of human compassion. I hope they prompt you to do something, to tell somone. Only then can we ensure that this kind of evil is never allowed to repeat itself.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Husband, Believe, Writing

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• The CIA agent looked more dead than alive. Alex wondered if he had been hit, but there was no sign of any blood. Perhaps he was in shock.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Blood, Cia Agents, Alex

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• Grabbing hold of facts in the midst of shock is very Erudite of him.

  Veronica Roth

  Facts, Midst, Grabbing

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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• You may have succeeded in shutting down the attack simulation, girl, but it was by luck alone, not skill. I would die of shock if you managed to do anything useful again for a long time" This is the Marcus that Tobias knows. The one who knows right where to hit to cause the most damage.

  Veronica Roth

  Girl, Skills, Long

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.33, HarperCollins UK

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• No es culpa de Cam", le dijo Bex. "Arreglamos su cama para que si se levanta, reciba una descarga eléctrica". "Liz lo diseñó", dijo Macey, y Bex se encogió de hombros. "Te dijimos que tomábamos precauciones". Por supuesto. Porque en la Academia Gallagher, "precauciones" suele equivaler a "terapia de choque voluntaria".

  Ally Carter

  Electric Shock, Faults, Bed

  Ally Carter (2012). "Gallagher Girls: Out of Sight, Out of Time", p.103, Hachette UK.

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• I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Memories, Air, Oxygen

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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