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Quotes About Shaken

But observe, that men then revolted from God, when, having   forsaken his word, they lent their ears to the falsehoods of Satan.   Hence we infer, that God will be seen and adored in his word; and,   therefore, that all reverence for him is shaken off when his word is   despised.
~ John Calvin
Louise was shaken by this realization but remained composed.
~ Garrett Sutton
Egos bruised. Pride shaken. Beliefs shamelessly debunked. But hey -- we're still alive and breathing!!
~ Arnold Arre
I object to rows because my nerves are shaken, and I get up at all sorts of ungodly hours, and I am extremely lazy. I have another set of vices when I'm well, but those are the principal ones at present.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I feel all agitated, like one of those snow globes you see resting peacefully on shop counters. I was perfectly happy being an ordinary, dull little Swiss village. But now Jack Harper's come and shaken me up, and there are snowflakes all over the place, whirling around until I don't know what I think anymore. And bits of glitter, too. Tiny bits of shiny, secret excitement.
~ Sophie Kinsella
The wrath will consume what they call themselves; so that the selves God made shall appear ... They will know that now first are they fully themselves. That which they thought themselves shall have vanished: that which they felt themselves, though they misjudged their own feelings, shall remain--remain glorified in repentant hope. For that which cannot be shaken will remain. That which is immortal in God shall remain in man. The death that is in them shall be consumed.
~ George MacDonald
They were a bit shaken, and sometimes a little dispirited. But at least they never lived to know that everything they'd believed in was just so much junk. They lived at the end of an epoch, when everything was dissolving into a sort of ghastly flux, and they didn't know it. They thought it was eternity. You couldn't blame them. That was what it felt like.
~ George Orwell
Yes, my soul, find rest in God; my hope comes from him. Truly he is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will not be shaken. My salvation and my honor depend on God; he is my mighty rock, my refuge. Trust in him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge. (Ps. 62:5–8 NIV)
~ Scotty Smith
You talk too easily,' the Boy said. 'Talk?' Mr Prewitt said. 'I could shake the world. Let them put me in the dock if they like. I'll give them—revelation. I've sunk so deep I carry—' he was shaken by an enormous windy self-esteem—he hiccupped twice—'the secrets of the sewer.
~ Graham Greene
On a merry-go-round in the night Coriolis was shaken with fright Despite how he walked 'Twas like he was stalked By some fiend always pushing him right!
~ Gregory Benford
Looking out on a clean plank of planet earth, we can get shaken right down to the bone by the bronze-eyed possibility of lives that are not our own.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Whitestorm went on. "Tigerclaw's treachery has shaken the whole Clan.
~ Erin Hunter
Links against chains. Links of solidarity versus chains of servitude. The brotherhood of the shaken against the unholy alliance of cold-blooded monsters and frauds.
~ Bernard-Henri Levy
As regards the kind of belief: it is thought virtuous to have Faith - that is to say, to have a conviction which cannot be shaken by contrary evidence. Or, if contrary evidence might induce doubt, it is held that contrary evidence must be suppressed.
~ Bertrand Russell
Yet he was still shaken by fading echoes of his fear that she might flee. Losing her would be very . . . personal.
~ Josie Litton
I'm sure there's some sort of cynicism or fatalism in Ireland and England. We are fatalistic here, and sometimes we need to be shaken out of that.
~ Brian Gleeson
It was not that I didn't wait, on this occasion, for more, for I was rooted as deeply as I was shaken. Was there a secret at Bly—a mystery of Udolpho or an insane, an unmentionable relative kept in unsuspected confinement?
~ Henry James
The Magnitsky law has proven to be a powerful tool. While asset freezes and travel bans against corrupt officials may sound incidental, they have shaken the Putin kleptocracy right down to the core.
~ Bill Browder
Biology has progressed tremendously due to the model that Darwin put forth. But the black boxes Darwin accepted are now being opened, and our view of the world is again being shaken.
~ Michael Behe
America is smarter than the politicians. America is demanding a change and not more of the same cronyism, not more of the same deception, corruption, and business. Washington, D.C., needs to be shaken up.
~ Ryan Zinke
I'm a bartender. I like recipes. They're concretes. Was the drink recipe for seduction one shot charm and two shots self-deception, shaken, not stirred?
~ Karen Marie Moning
They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken. I said, "You are gods [elohim] sons of the Most High, all of you; nevertheless, like men you shall die, and fall like any prince." Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations!
~ Brian Godawa
For a moment, sincere human fury had burned through the training, touched a hot core of genuine rage. He felt shaken, but more whole, more truly himself, then he'd been for years.
~ Bruce Sterling
Maybe it's good to be traumatized in your youth, to make you think differently and step outside the box. Anybody can be comfortable, but if you get your world rocked, shaken as it were, then maybe it causes you to really go to a whole other level in a different way.
~ Charlie Trotter