Quotes About Shock

Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.

You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer.

Shock always sells. You know? But you could shock in good taste.

Bad taste is not illegal. I always got my first laughs as a kid by saying inappropriate things. That's always how we're going to get our laughs as comics.

Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.

2010 was sort of this shock and shift in congress, with the real emergence of the Tea Party.

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

I hope you had an entertaining time following me around." I took my keys out. "You should be a reality show," he said. "It's that good. And you know, I might be a totally unstable former assassin, but man. You manage to shock even me.

HORROR AND SHOCK CONSUMED ME, so much so that I thought my soul would shrivel, that the world would end right then and there—because surely, surely it couldn't keep going on after this.

He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.

Prendergast's ribs spread open with a wet crack.

The Principal. "Bloody hell," Clarissa said. "It's Queen Victoria.

Jesus H. Christ on ice and Mary in the penalty box!

Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him.

Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.

Time. Now here is a peculiar commodity, boy. The measurement of time. Best accomplished, obviously, with a watch. But, lacking a watch, a man may use instead the ebb and flow of light and dark. Lacking, however, a window through which to see such movement, the reliance must be devolved upon some inner mechanism of the mind. But if the mind has received a shock, the mechanism is disturbed, and time becomes as the ground is to a drunkard, variable.

When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, it is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough.

More than once Nynaeve had been shocked at her own cruelty, even while she was delighted at her inventiveness.

Mat's other blade stabbed into his chest, he squealed, eyes

A severed ear sticks to the windshield, and Philip puts the wipers on. They

I said you were a fucking monster! Look at what you made me do! Just fucking look! She was carrying a baby! A BABY! You made me kill a fucking BABY!

It's all right," Phaedrus said. "We just accidentally stumbled over a genuine question, and the shock is hard to recover from.

In another study subjects waited an unknown length of time to receive a shock.12 This lack of predictability and control was so aversive that many chose to receive a stronger shock immediately. And

LeDoux and others have shown how auditory information about the tone stimulates BLA neurons. At first, activation of those neurons is irrelevant to the central amygdala (whose neurons are destined to activate following the shock). But with repeated coupling of tone with shock, there is remapping and those BLA neurons acquire the means to activate the central amygdala.fn16