Famous quotes containing the word shock:
“Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.”
—F.H. (Francis Herbert)
“Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)