Top Shock Quotes
Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it.
Nicolas Cage
When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.
Lewis B. Smedes
It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
James Baldwin
In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
Orville Wright
It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.
John Amery
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Dennis Miller All Shock Quotes
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
James A. Baldwin 
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Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the major institutions and in the infrastructure of the financial system.
Timothy Geithner
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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
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I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.
Sarah Silverman
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I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
Frances Farmer
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It's incredible, but I think a lot of people it shot over their heads 'cause they're used to just getting images and messing around with them, and for us to do something quite so 'designed' was a bit of a shock.
Sean Booth
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In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.
Joshua Leonard
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The Europeans must finally understand the incredible shock triggered by the attacks of September 11.
Brent Scowcroft
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Popular Shock Authors
VoltaireBertrand RussellGertrude SteinKarl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelGene TierneyHenri Frederic AmielHedy LamarrJames A. BaldwinBrian EnoBill GatesNeil YoungNorman MailerEthel WatersAllen KleinGraham Nash
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