It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by forcible asportation and education of the infant against the will of the father.
Going gray is like ejaculating: you know it can happen prematurely, but when it does it comes as a total shock.
We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.
I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.
I like to shock people.
In the UK what we've found is that even businesses which prided themselves already on their efficient management find that a really beady-eyed scrutiny of their resource management, with an eye to environmental best-practice and long term sustainability, produce fresh efficiency and fresh savings that actually shock those in the company
There's nothing you could say that would shock me.
It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.
I'm still suffering from shock from the last war. I was almost drafted! Luckily I was wounded while taking the physical. When I reached the psychiatrist, I said, Give me a gun, I'll wipe out the whole German Army in five minutes. He said, You're crazy! I said, Write it down!
I even had breasts that had mechanisms that could make them droop. It was a shock in the beginning. Talk about special effects!
It's so difficult to shock America these days.
Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.
I foresee death by culture shock.
I did go to Vietnam in 2000 as a kind of pilgrimage and to feel my generation was very much a part of this. I felt responsible but also connected and empathetic. It was a very complicated relationship we had, whichever side you were on. The shock of being there was very few people my own age - I was primarily in the North in the streets of Hanoi. A whole generation was essentially decimated.
Graphite also absorbs the shock of a hit. The first (graphite) clubs that came out were too flexible, but now you can get them to be just as firm as you want and need.
This may shock you, but the most important person in your life is you. You are meant to be 'full of yourself.
Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.
Its always a shock to me when I get recognized.