True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
When I left rugby and bought my first commercial gym membership it was a shock to the system. I went in there and saw people training and thought ‘I’ve got to get out of here and get in a proper gym.’
Until I was about 13, somehow I managed to assume that everyone reacted to everything just about as I did. I took it for granted that everyone shared my passion for overcast skies. It came as quite a shock when I discovered that there were actually people who preferred sunshine.
Everything in Asia is a culture shock, it’s very different from North America, but it’s great to be forced into a situation to meet new people and learn new techniques.
We need a resilient, well-capitalized, well-regulated financial system that is strong enough to withstand even severe shocks and support economic growth by lending through the economic cycle.
I think sometimes people expect people to burst into tears. But, I think sometimes emotion, as I’ve seen, shock, can have a lot of different manifestations. Sometimes it’s tears and sometimes it’s just complete stoicism.
When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasn’t the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror.
Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I’d love to see some of today’s greats playing against Elgin. They couldn’t guard him. Nobody could.
When Mahavishnu came out in ’71, the unbelievable reaction to the band was a real shock to me. It was a shock to everybody.
I don’t stick to a routine, because I like to mix things up, which stops training becoming boring and helps shock muscles into firing up.
It will shock many – I’ve lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.
I never thought I’d be making a living off of acting – it’s still kind of a shock for my family and friends to see my face on TV every Wednesday night.
If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.
There’s nothing you could say that would shock me.
The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism – Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on!
By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.
Miley Cyrus, like all of us, needs to be loved. We all come from complicated parents… I understand her, and I love her, and I think things will be different with her. But you know, in the music business, sometimes you have to shock a little.
The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, ‘Whoa!’ And then you can make people think about stuff. It’s kind of like shock therapy.
Had I known toxic shock was real, and had I seen someone that had either lost limbs or spoke about it publicly, I would have never used tampons.
Immanence, or complicity, allows the writer to be a kind of shock absorber of the culture: to reflect back its ‘whatness,’ refracted through the sensibility of his consciousness.
Not naming names, but it shocks me, some of the people who get the breaks.
I do notice a lot of people who want to shock to get laughs. It’s such a tricky thing; you don’t want to make rules about it. There’s nobody more hilarious than Dave Attell, and he’d break every rule you set up. But he’s funny.
I’m honestly very shy and quiet and to myself. Not that too much shocks me anymore.
I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.
I landed in Kabul the day before Shock and Awe in Iraq, and you could all but hear the collective groan.
It’s always a shock to me when I get recognized.
I’m a big horror fan, but I don’t enjoy a lot of gore and watching somebody cut their leg off for five hours. I like the older movies where it draws you into the suspense, that sort of shock and awe.
I write my books at moments of shock. I meet people in extremis and their stories are highly emotionally charged.
When I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder the year I turned 50, it was certainly a shock. But as a journalist, knowing a little bit about a lot of things, I didn’t suffer the misconception that depression was all in my head or a mark of poor character. I knew it was a disease, and, like all diseases, was treatable.
There are definitely some nights where the show is over, and you’re on the bus or a hotel room, and it’s sort of a shock to go from being in the atmosphere of a club or a theater and be at your own show to being by yourself in a hotel room.
It’s not that I’m easily shocked. It takes a lot to shock me. And wildness I like. But vulgarity shocks me.
After making ‘Secretary,’ it was a real shock to me to learn that some directors just aren’t interested in what actors have to say. They just don’t want to collaborate.
I felt desperately sad, because it’s a real shock in the 21st century, where we’re fortunate to live in amazing country like the U.K., that there are areas where young women feel so desperate about what their future should be.
Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
We must recognize that Small Island Developing States are particularly vulnerable to climate change, natural disasters, and external shocks.
When I win, I send shock waves through the boxing world.
I don’t cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.
The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.
My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter’s death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn’t know if I’d survive it.
I was 15 when my family moved to Jidda from Britain in 1982. Living in Saudi Arabia was such a shock to my system that I like to say I was traumatized into feminism.
Limbaugh hosts a radio show. His job is to shock people.
9/11 did not really impact me, but I remember sitting in my 6th grade math class. I remember the teachers just being in a panic and turning on our TVs and I remember the impact in the look of just disbelief and sadness and shock that was on my teacher’s face.
The Marine Corps has to ask itself, ‘What does our nation need from its premier crisis response force?’ We are America’s shock troops in war and peace. I know it sounds corny, but it’s not.
I want to be able to still surprise myself, even shock myself, whether it be sexual content, whether it be about the theological content, whatever. I want to be able to knock myself sideways. Otherwise, what a waste of a life that would be.
I happen to have a giant ego, an admission that will not shock my close friends or critics. I am not uncomfortable in saying that because the ego of a man often gets great things done.
When I moved from Canada to Korea, I experienced a massive culture shock. I wasn’t familiar with Korean culture at all and was very surprised at the hierarchical elements of Korean culture. However, at the time I was determined to succeed so I became a sponge and just soaked in everything I could.
When I moved to Mumbai for college, it was bit of a culture shock.
There is clear empirical evidence that the response of EME financial markets to different shocks, including changes in U.S. interest rates, depends importantly on the state of economic fundamentals in the EMEs themselves.
I love travelling, but I have to admit I didn’t initially take to Agra in India. As soon as you arrive, someone wants to show you around, take your bags or sell you something – and it’s just a bit of a culture shock. You just have to make the necessary mental adjustment to the setting.
It’s certainly not a shock to find that the industry has no imagination. I think people don’t know what it is I do. Because half the time you’re talking to people who are in their 20s, and I’ve been doing this for over 25 years.
When I left the U.S. for the first time, I spent my first year abroad in Japan. That culture shock and abundance of new stimuli combined with a lack of guidance forced me to develop my own approaches to learning and juggling.
My father Rodger is your typical ‘funny without knowing it’ kinda guy. When he says something that creates shock or joy in a room, I love watching his confused face as he tries to work out what it is he did.
It shocks me, the rumors people start: that I have the title because of my boyfriend. If that was the case, I would have gotten the title when I came back years ago and still had the title. He has nothing to do with it.
