#shock

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

My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#against #any #childhood #crouch #dad

Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#blood #concentrated #effective #serum #shock

In this country we're just obsessed with making people celebrities before they've even done anything, which I think is just shocking. ↗

— Kelly Brook

#before #celebrities #country #done #even

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked. ↗

— Robert Browning

#before #learns #old #perhaps #rather

It's not like he called me up and asked me. They've never wanted to throw us into that world, and I think our decision probably shocked them. But I love my dad, and I think I'd regret it if I didn't do this. ↗

— Jenna Bush

#called #dad #decision #i #i love

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#capacity #change #future #limited #man

Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic. ↗

— Tina Turner

#delhi #i came #many #oh #people

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