A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.
Anna Freud

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
Brian Eno

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.
Harold Brodkey

But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.
Herbie Mann

Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.
Paul D. Boyer

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
Augustus Hare

Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.
Tina Turner

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.
William Throsby Bridges

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
Norman Mailer

Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.
Bob Geldof

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.
Alvin Toffler

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
Walter Benjamin

His letter was like the shock produced by a cold bath.
Duff Green

I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I'm going to shock a few people, win a lot of people over.
John Lone

I am still in shock and awe at being fired.
Peter Arnett

I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?
Gene Tierney

I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course.
Ruth Warrick

I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.
Sarah Silverman

I don't think anybody ever thought about the CIA meddling in internal affairs. The shock of the President's death called for an immediate investigation. It actually lay in the jurisdiction of Texas.
John Sherman Cooper

I fail to see the issue that will shock the people of this great country of ours into some decisive action.
Graham Nash