#shock

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I have to say obviously it is not illegal for people to go to dinner and to socialise and take hospitality off members of the media organisations, but it was the scale and the timing and the frequency of contact that I thought was shocking.


Tom A. Watson


#dinner #frequency #go #hospitality #i

In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.


Orville Wright


#case #crushing #experiences #experiments #gliding

I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.


Neil Young


#anything #could #i #man #people

In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.


James Hillman


#attempts #black #bowels #depression #hatred

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.


Oliver Wendell Holmes


#although #being #beyond #civilized #got

Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don't recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I got a big shock. They put me in with this rough, tough veteran called Lionel Byarm. He tested me to the limit. But I fought my heart out and, in the end, I prevailed. The story of my life, in my very first fight.


Evander Holyfield


#called #could #end #fear #fight

When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgarden break up.


Matt Cameron


#break up #first #gone #having #i

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.


Robert Farrar Capon


#own #pathology #right #shock #unemployment

Then Frederica went towards him, holding out her hand, and he raised his eyes from Felix’s eager countenance, and smiled at her, causing Mr. Moreton to suffer a shock. It was not at all the sort of smile with which his lordship beguiled his flirts, but something warmer and more intimate. Good God! mentally ejaculated Mr. Moreton. Sits the wind in that quarter?


Georgette Heyer


#shock #smile #marriage

I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone.


Helena Bonham Carter


#everyone #hate #i #image #me