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The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.
— Peter Drucker
For the antifragile, shocks bring more benefits (equivalently, less harm) as their intensity increases (up to a point).
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.
— Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
She was growing accustomed to like shocks, but she could not keep the mounting color back from her cheeks.
— Kate Chopin
Tourists and locals are watching from sidewalk cafes. Non-racers. The emptiness of those lives shocks me.
— Tim Krabbe
Sputnik quickly became one of the three great shocks to hit America - historians say the equal of Pearl Harbor or 9/11.
— David Hoffman
Sometimes when I remember we aren't the same person, it shocks me.
— Laurie Frankel
Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing.
— Marcel Duchamp
Nothing shocks me anymore ... except pure intentions.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Our patents' old age shocks us in the same manner that our children's growth to maturity does , but without the joy.
— Azar Nafisi
Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.
— Aaron Hill
Is the most antifragile place on the planet; it benefits from shocks that take place in the rest of the world.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
— Alfred Hitchcock
With the grace of hopeful heart, you can overcome emotional shocks.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The snow has quietness in it; no songs,no smells, no shouts or traffic.
When I speak
my own voice shocks me. — Anne Sexton
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
— George Washington
Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
— Thomas Paine
It is true fortitude to stand firm againstAll shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die
In fear to suffer more calamity. — Philip Massinger
Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.
— Harrison Ford
![Shocks Quotes By Eric Hobsbawm: Like Machiavelli himself, he [Edward Luttwak] enjoys truth](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/shocks-quotes-by-eric-hobsbawm-1809552.jpg "Shocks Quotes By Eric Hobsbawm: Like Machiavelli himself, he [Edward Luttwak] enjoys truth")
Like Machiavelli himself, he [Edward Luttwak] enjoys truth not only because it is true but also because it shocks the naive
— Eric Hobsbawm
Nothing is more real than those great seismic shocks that two souls give each other in exchanging that spark.
— Victor Hugo
War must always be done out of sight, it shocks people and they stop immediately.
— Catherynne M Valente
Time was when I was immune to emotional shocks. But as I get older, I don't get tougher; I get softer.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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
I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.
— Park Chan-wook
We do not always respond to shocks with regression. Sometimes, in the face of crisis, we grow up - fast.
— Naomi Klein
Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.
— Kurt Goldstein
I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
— Rabih Alameddine
Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
— Alexander Pope
You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.
— Henry David Thoreau
A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.
— Emmanuel Levinas
And also I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.
— Benazir Bhutto
It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves, And, like living coals, the apples Burned among the withering leaves.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
— Loretta Lynn
If you didn't sit with your head in the clouds so perpetually you wouldn't get so many shocks.
— Ethel M. Dell
Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.
— Theodor Adorno
For the fragile, the cumulative effect of small shocks is smaller than the single effect of an equivalent single large shock.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me.
— Charlie Chaplin
One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.
— Marianne Williamson