logo

Quotes About Shock

AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed.'So that's Sara, ' I said.'Yes.''She seems nice.
~ John Green, Looking for Alaska
listen carefully, as this may be something of a shock to you." "A shock? You mean all that was just the precursor?
~ Marissa Meyer, Cinder
I choked on the air I'd just sucked in and swung around in disbelief. "What did you just say?""Me and the whole PD heard about your wet bra, so I'm assuming your panties are wet too.
~ Unknown
Shocked to see me?" I drawl at them, chuckling at the horrific joke.
~ Victoria Aveyard
Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
~ Alvin Toffler
Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
~ Alvin Toffler
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
~ Alvin Toffler
Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.
~ Leo Rosten
To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
~ Alvin Toffler
Wanna play a joke on your chiropractor? The next time he starts working on you, go limp and soil yourself.
~ Mike Wilmot
When you took your seat I felt as if a woman had come into my bathroom and I had only the sponge to defend myself.
~ Winston Churchill
I like my wine like my women...ready to pass out.
~ Robin Williams
Then Washbourg gave his iphone to Ibi as he walked up to the severed head, grinned, and said "Watch this." Then, he proceeded to kick the severed head 30 yards to his left between two camels and shouted "Goal!
~ Unknown
Shock is the body's defense system when the input we are receiving would otherwise blow our minds.
~ Unknown
The bad thing about having emotions is, you know, OH SHIT WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO ME.
~ Martha Wells
Fairly reasonable people often expected everyone they knew to be fairly reasonable too, and were shocked when this proved not to be the case.
~ Martha Wells
be my first accidental murder.
~ Martha Wells
Oh. Oh, shit.
~ Martha Wells
On the entertainment feed, this is what they call an "oh shit" moment.
~ Martha Wells
Then in my skim of the news broadcast I hit an image. It was me. I didn't stop in my tracks because I have a lot of practice in not physically reacting to things no matter how much they shock or horrify me. I may have lost control of my expression for a second; I was used to always wearing a helmet and keeping it opaqued whenever possible.
~ Martha Wells
It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the defining moment. Until then, America thought she was witnessing nothing more serious than the worst aviation disaster in history; now she had a sense of the fantastic vehemence ranged against her.
~ Martin Amis
Jack turned, and it was just as well he was looking at me rather than at the audience for never, I swear, did such utter amazement fill a man's face. He gobbled like a turkey cock, his eyes almost started from his head, his jaw fell open and he stepped back as though he had been pricked.
~ Unknown
I can't say I'm happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Entertainment Tonight, this really was one of the most shocking and sad things to have happened.
~ Mary Hart
There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.
~ Mary Renault