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Quotes About Shock

My eyes widened as I looked at him. 'Then you bit me, you weirdo.
~ Unknown
Serial killers are usually such normal people that their communities often react with disbelief.
~ Unknown
The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Un disparo rasgó el aire y como plátano desgajado del racimo se desplomó un hombre.
~ Unknown
It was also so expensive that I actually gasped when I heard her daily rate, and this is coming from someone who didn't think twice about spending twenty bucks to buy the movie Split on iTunes because she didn't want to wait two weeks to rent it.
~ Mindy Kaling
The attackers had used one of the oldest and most potent weapons of warfare: surprise.
~ Mitchell Zuckoff
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition...
~ Monty Python
For empirically, taking the twentieth century as a whole, the single most warlike, most interventionist, most imperialist government has been the United States. Such a statement is bound to shock Americans, subject as we have been for decades to intense propaganda by the Establishment on the invariable saintliness, peaceful intentions, and devotion to justice of the American government in foreign affairs.
~ Murray N. Rothbard
Our reality is getting funnier and funnier, comical nightmare of black humor, and funny and scary, shock humor. The comical, dreamlike paradoxes of egoism are becoming more and more.
~ Unknown
The cheerful horrors of inner reality amaze to the depths of the soul with the shock humor of evil. It's as if they are beating a shocker from whom you are laughing.
~ Unknown
Did you hear how his head bounced down the steps? Thud, splat, thud, splat.
~ Nalini Singh
Mercy's eyes held equal parts shock, and delight. " Riley. " He felt his lips stretch even wider. "I think we need to celebrate with some brand-new etchings." His cat's laugh was surprised and warm and the sound of home. "It's your etchings that got us into this position.
~ Nalini Singh
When I learned of Aunt Dimity's death, I was stunned. Not because she was dead, but because I had never known she'd been alive.
~ Nancy Atherton
One of the first things Vincent explained to Norma was that there was a certain freedom of language in the Village that mustn't shock her. It wasn't vulgar. 'So we sat darning socks on Waverly Place and practiced the use of profanity as we stitched. Needle in, shit. Needle out, piss. Needle in, fuck. Needle out, cunt. Until we were easy with the words.
~ Nancy Milford
One of the first things Vincent explained to Norma was that there was a certain freedom of language in the Village that mustn't shock her. It wasn't vulgar. 'So we sat darning socks on Waverly Place and practiced the use of profanity as we stitched. Needle in, . Needle out, piss. Needle in, . Needle out, c. Until we were easy with the words.
~ Nancy Milford
The Jewish day begins in the calm of evening, when it won't shock the system with its arrival.
~ Nathan Englander
shock of black hair. "Or are rangers' sex drives too low?" "IQs are too
~ Nevada Barr
They were fortified with all the resilience that youth presents to an emotional shock. In the midst of murder and attempted suicide, they had managed, not only to behave with address and good sense, but all to fall in love with each other.
~ Ngaio Marsh
It happened so fast - so abruptly. An innocence I'd clung to was lost in that instant.
~ Unknown
The hole was a couple of meters wide and two, two and a half meters deep. It was empty. No, there was something there. A heap of rolled-up rags? No... An animal? A dog? No... What was it? It was hairless... white... a leg... A leg! I jumped backwards and nearly tripped over. A leg? I took a deep breath and had a quick look down. It was a leg
~ Niccolo Ammaniti
There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
You can find that in all art forms: the minute you inspire laughter you also make that person vulnerable, which means either you can shock them, make them laugh more, or, at that moment, you can be totally honest with them.
~ Unknown
Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.
~ Unknown
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
~ Noel Coward