Choque Quotes & Sayings

The dissatisfaction of the masses is not based on economic deprivation but on a sense of ineffectually. Not an increased standard of living, but more social power, is their fundamental goal, because of their emotional orientation, they arise and act when a powerful leader-figure can coordinate them into a functioning unit rather than a chaotic mass of unformed elements. Dill — Philip K. Dick

Your calling is in your difference and uniqueness — Sunday Adelaja

I am pinned to my seat with pity and horror and a weird, twisted affection laced with longing and traces of lust. — Michelle Knudsen

People get devalued in Hollywood when they age, despite all their efforts to stay relevant and beautiful and young. They can't get jobs anymore. — David LaChapelle

But the sort of - this confusion of permissions, or this idea that pleasure and comfort are the, are really the ultimate goal and meaning of life. I think we're starting to see a generation die ... on the toxicity of that idea. — David Lipsky

I want these tiny snippets of perfection between us to be our constant reality. — Colleen Hoover

I always knew I wanted it to be illustrated. — David Sedaris

There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them. — Juice Newton

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth. — Rachel Carson

When something goes wrong, the natural tendency is to say, "By God, we need to pass a law and do something." — Milton Friedman

I need a world filled with wonder, with awe, with awful things. I couldn't exist in a world devoid of marvels, even if the marvels are terrible marvels. Even if they frighten me to consider them. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

Anyway, I started bitching one night before the broadcast. Seymour'd told me to shine my shoes just as I was going out the door with Waker. I was furious. The studio audience were all morons, the announcer was a moron, the sponsors were morons, and I just damn well wasn't going to shine my shoes for them, I told Seymour. I said they couldn't see them anyway, where we sat. He said to shine them anyway. He said to shine them for the Fat Lady. — J.D. Salinger

We used to say
"Ah Hell, we're young"
But now we see that life is sad
And so is love. — Kate Bush

Like all people, we perceive the version of reality that our culture communicates. Like others having or living in more than one culture, we get multiple, often opposing messages. The coming together of two self-consistent but habitually incomparable frames of reference causes un choque, a cultural collision. — Gloria E. Anzaldua