Top 32 Life Shocks Quotes
#1. Children are all criminally insane, and must be destroyed!
Jhonen Vasquez
#2. Diddums. Critics claim that somebody who had no children could
Liz Nugent
#3. The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.
Tan Le
#4. Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
B.K.S. Iyengar
#5. sometimes when a friendship goes beyond normal borders and you find a sister, rather than an ordinary friend, conversations aren't necessary.
J.L. Berg
#6. How on earth do people imagine we equip children for life if we never show them the sorts of issues other people encounter, if we never talk through with them how they might deal with difficulty or violence or unexpected shocks and surprises?
Margo Lanagan
#7. For what wears out the life of mortal men? 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls; Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, Exhaust the energy of strongest souls And numb the elastic powers.
Matthew Arnold
#8. With the grace of hopeful heart, you can overcome emotional shocks.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#9. I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married in real life. So both are shocks to me.
Cathy Guisewite
#10. the finding of a cargo of whisky was, in a sense, like the finding by the Israelites of manna in the wilderness. And
Alexander McCall Smith
#11. My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.
Lance Loud
#12. I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing.
Peter Weir
#13. Are animals lonely? Other animals, I mean.
Jenny Offill
#14. Your love in a cottage is hungry,
Your vine is a nest for flies-
Your milkmaid shocks the Graces,
And simplicity talks of pies!
You lie down to your shady slumber
And wake with a bug in your ear,
And your damsel that walks in the morning
Is shod like a mountaineer.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
#15. There's very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists. How the hell did we get here? What shocks me is that bacteria alter their genes and resist antibiotics and viruses resist vaccines.
Bernie Siegel
#16. Playing against a defensive opponent is just as bad as making love to a tree.
Jorge Valdano
#17. To would-be writers..........don't worry about imagination, real-life and human nature will provide you with more shocks and surprises than you could ever conjure in your head. Just look around and observe.
Oliver E. Cadam
#18. I found the final plot twist unsatisfying, as plot twists often are: nothing like life, which - it seems to me - turns less on shocks or theatrics than on the small quiet moments, misunderstandings, or disappointments, the things that it's easy to overlook.
Harriet Lane
#19. The type of religion which rejoices in the pious sound of traditional phrases, regardless of their meanings, or shrinks from "controversial" matters, will never stand amid the shocks of life.
John Gresham Machen
#20. Are you going to answer my questions, or do I have to whack you with a stick until delicious candy surprises fall out?
Molly Harper
#21. It shocks me how I wish for ... what is lost and cannot come back.
Sue Monk Kidd
#22. One ... aspect of the case for World War II is that while it was still a shooting affair it taught us survivors a great deal about daily living which is valuable to us now that it is, ethically at least, a question of cold weapons and hot words.
M.F.K. Fisher
#23. Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
Sylvia Plath
#24. Bullshit! Li-ar! Your mother and father are dead like everybody else. Everybody is dead.
Joyce Carol Oates
#25. We showed the industry that female artists could attract the same audiences as the big male stars.
Sarah McLachlan
#26. It's not smart to hold yourself away from the shocks of life, the good ones or the bad. They're all part of the mix, and paradoxically, shying away from them only makes things harder.
Linda Lael Miller
#27. I loooved Sleater-Kinney like a crazy person.
Fred Armisen
#28. Life is not as idle ore,
But iron dug from central gloom,
And heated hot with burning fears,
And dipt in baths of hissing tears,
And batter'd with the shocks of doom,
To shape and use.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#29. There are no more surprises and shocks in life, so that I watch the flame without agitation. For me the greatest reality is this and nothing else... Nothing else will worry or interest me in life hereafter.
R.K. Narayan
#30. Rust is nature's rebuke of our vanity that the things we build of iron and steel will last.
From "Tractor Bones and Rusted Trucks" - not yet published
Greg Seeley
#31. Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.
Theodor Adorno
#32. Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work.
Joel Edgerton
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