“ The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle. ”
- David Mamet- Copy
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“ This is a pleasant surprise, Archie. I would not have believed it. That of course is the advantage of being a pessimist; a pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. ”
- Nero Wolfe- Copy
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“ Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock. ”
- Ben Lindsey- Copy
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“ Shock is shock. Your body goes into shock, regardless of it being real blood or fake blood. The mind sends powerful messages to all the various glands and secretions in the body. It's impossible trying to act it; it just happens. It's a very important question: no acting. ”
- Ben Kingsley- Copy
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“ Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people. ”
- Jean Guehenno- Copy
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“ Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock. ”
- Alvin Toffler- Copy
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“ Obscenity is what happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate.'. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. ”
- Shana Alexander- Copy
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“ Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence. ”
- Dr. Kurt Goldstein- Copy
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“ It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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“ Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock … the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
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“ The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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“ There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. ”
- Francis Herbert Bradley- Copy
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“ Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock. ”
- Jules Renard- Copy
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“ Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue. ”
- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield- Copy
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“ It's always kind of a shock the first time you see a movie that you worked on to see what's really inside the edit. And how much of it, you know? ”
- Rick Baker- Copy
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“ The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right. ”
- Robert Farrar Capon- Copy
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