#shock

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. ↗

— John Acton

#dead #nations #off #past #reign

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#news #novelty #photography #shock #art

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock. ↗

— Anna Freud

#first #madhouse #shock #visit

I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion. ↗

— Tara Lipinski

#champion #even #i #imagine #like

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

#cancer #could #crying #death #decided

Love gives you eyes. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christianity #eyes #inspirational #jesus-shock #love

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#beauty #catholicism #christianity #god #goodness

Pain can kill, all on its own: the body goes into shock and shuts down. ↗

— Teri Terry

#kill #pain #shock #death

If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christ #christianity #christlessness #christology #fundamentalism

I knew that we would obtain it, I thought that what I had dreamed, had no reason to be complied. ↗

— Daniel Díez Ginestar

#diez #earth #ginestar #global #life