Quotes About Shock

Wake up and smell the corpses.

Reeducation comes from voices that dissent from the unexamined comfort zone, from those who abrasively shock our comfort zones with voices from outside that violate the consensus that has been silently accepted.

frog. It was this spongelike rubber cushion that absorbed the first terrific shock of a thousand-pound horse galloping over a hard surface at high speed.

When you revealed that the Rani was in fact the Nagi," Charlie said, "the players collectively pissed their pants." "I'd rather they creamed their jeans.

to see what had happened. "Oh no," Elaine gasped. "It looks like a car hit someone's buggy! I hope no one is seriously hurt.

treatment had begun, things were more advanced than anyone had suspected. It shook Sara to the core how quickly it all happened. Her mother never complained of any pain she might have had. When she started feeling under the weather, she made an appointment with the doctor, figuring it was only a virus.

burst into my room brandishing a newspaper

She stands there, staring down at the floor, the soda she had just grabbed from the shelf now dangling from her hand. "Omigod

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years. Two years later we ourselves made flights. This demonstration of my impotence as a prophet gave me such a shock that ever since I have distrusted myself and avoided all predictions.

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.

Never forget, the unimaginable can happen.

The notion that modern England might not be a cultural paradise appeared to come as a shock to Brady Boswell. He was one of those Americans who formed their impressions of life in the United Kingdom by watching reruns of Masterpiece Theater. "A

Sam was stunned. "A wheelchair? A wheelchair? What kinda cop you know goes around in a wheelchair? How

Having seen what the Catholic priesthood has become, I feel the shock, also, of what it has in some way been all along.

You can't be serious." Thomas could only nod. Minho's shoulders slumped, and his eyes fell to the floor. "How did the world get so shucked?" The words barely came out, low and full of pain. "I'm sorry," Newt said, and there were tears streaming down his face. "I'm … I'm going to shoot if you don't go. Now.

La daga golpeó el pecho de Chuck con un ruido húmedo y desagradable,

He heard the hiss right before a billion pounds of dynamite exploded in his shoulder. His mind said goodbye for the third time.

he felt a fresh rush of horror.

Pretty sure we just arrived in bloody hell. Always thought you'd end up here, Minho, but not me.

He heard a sickening thunk, his head twisting to the side just in time to see that Darnell had a five-inch-long dart sticking out of his shoulder, its thin metal shaft planted deep within the muscle. Blood trickled down from the wound. The boy made a strange grunt as he collapsed to the ground.

Thomas didn't have time to shout a warning before the massive piece of rock landed on a group of people, crushing them as it broke in half. He stood for a moment, speechless as blood oozed out from the edges and pooled on the stone floor.

And then Thomas, still in shock over the sheer power of the lightning bursts, followed his friends, stepping into the gloom. He turned to look just in time to see the rain start falling outside, as if the storm had finally decided to weep with shame for what it had done to them.

Es uno de esos momentos en los que el cerebro necesita unos instantes para asimilar los sucesos que se desarrollan ante tus ojos; la impresión bloquea temporalmente el camino.

Newt shushed them again. "That's not bloody half of it," he said, then pointed down into the Box. "I think she's dead.