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«If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. [They] shiver you for a split second.»
Author: Eleanor Clark
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
breezes, freshness, intimation, intimations, love life, oyster, piercing, shiver, shivering, shivers, shock, split, split second, weeds
«I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single question, From how deep and true an impulse did it spring? Was it written merely to shock? Only to make money? Or was it written to create somethin»
«But all husbands are geese, though our pride it may shock, From the first 'twas ordained so by Nature I fear; Ould Adam himself was the first of the flock, And Eve, with her apple sauce, cooked him, my dear»
«Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.»
Author: William Bridges
| Keywords:
disappointment, disenchantment, minor, shock, signal, signaling, transition, transitions
«Future shock [is] the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.»
Author: Alvin Toffler
(Author)
| About:
Stress
| Keywords:
disorientation, Future Shock, induce, shattering, shock, subjecting, Too Short
«It doesn't exactly feel like a shock, but it's all new to me, and I'm taking it in as it comes.»
«Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
affect, receiver, receivers, shock, to the point
«In our shock and grief one thing must remain clear, hate and prejudice are not American values. The public outrage in Laramie and all across America today echoes what we heard at the White House Conference on Hate Crimes last year -- there is something we can do about this, Congress needs to pass our tough Hate Crimes Legislation. It can do so even before it adjourns and it should do so.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| Keywords:
American values, America Today, clearing house, conference, echoes, Laramie, last year, legislation, pass across, shock, The White House, White House
«It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Relationships
| Keywords:
date, shock, to date, up-to-date
«Better to sink beneath the shock than molder piecemeal on the rock»
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