Secondary Shock Wave

Famous quotes containing the words secondary, shock and/or wave:

“A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

“Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“Down the blue night the unending columns press
In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow,”
—Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)