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I remember when our whole island was shaken with an earthquake some years ago, there was an impudent mountebank who sold pills which (as he told the country people) were very good against an earthquake.
joseph addison— 1710 In The Tatler, no. 240, 21 Oct.
As she stumbled forward she cried out in her mind, which was as dark, as shaken as the subterranean vault, “Forgive me. O my Masters, O unnamed ones, most ancient ones, forgive me, forgive me!” There was no answer. There had never been an answer.
ursula k. le guin— Chapter 10, "The Anger of the Dark"
The white population could not possibly be unaffected by those events some whites more stubborn in their defense of segregation, but others beginning to think in different ways. And the black population was transformed, having risen up in mass action for the first time, feeling its power, knowing now that if the old order could be shaken it could be toppled.
howard zinn— You Can't Be Neutral on A Moving Train (1994) Ch. 4: "My Name is Freedom": Albany, Georgia
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
john acton— Letter (23 January 1861), published in Lord Acton and his Circle (1906) by Abbot Francis Aidan Gasquet, Letter 24
Something begins, begins;Starlit and sunlit, something walks abroadIn flesh and spirit and fire.Something is loosed to change the shaken world.
stephen vincent benét— Innkeeper's wife
Death has shaken out the sands of thy glass.
john gardiner calkins brainard— Lament for Long Tom, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
niels bohr— "Atomic Physics and the Description of Nature" (1934)
When taken, To be well shaken.
colman, george, the younger— The Newcastle Apothecary, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
He confronts a basic tool of the measurers the statistical technique called factor analysis, developed by the influential English psychologist Charles Spearman and demonstrates persuasively how factor analysis led to the cardinal error in reasoning of confusing correlation with cause, or, to put it another way, of attributing false concreteness to the abstract. It is this sort of performance that makes the book's eventual refutation of Arthur Jensen seem incidental, for it is far more absorbing to have our powers of reason challenged than it is to have our social consciences shaken.
stephen jay gould— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, "Books Of The Times" The New York Times, 1997-11-09, p. C29
When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken, Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk.
ben harper— Into the Colors
When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?
thomas hood— Spring it is cheery; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Death has shaken out the sands of thy glass.
— Lament for Long Tom, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.
— Translator: Acharya Buddharakkhita (Quotes)
Earthquakes may be brought about because wind is caught up in the earth, so the earth is dislocated in small masses and is continually shaken, and that causes it to sway.
— Epicurus in: The 1855 Wairarapa Earthquake Symposium, John Townend, Rob Langridge, September 2005
The shocks were so violent and varied, and succeeded one another so closely, that I had to balance myself carefully in walking as if on the deck of a ship among waves, and it seemed impossible that the high cliffs of the Valley could escape being shattered. In particular, I feared that the sheer-fronted Sentinel Rock, towering above my cabin, would be shaken down, and I took shelter back of a large yellow pine, hoping that it might protect me from at least the smaller outbounding boulders.
— John Muir in: "John Muir and the March 26, 1872, Owens Valley Earthquake".
ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
— Ambrose Bierce The Cynic's Word Book (New York: Doubleday, Page, 1906) p. 98.
For there are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion, That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858), Part VI. Priscilla, line 12.
I should be sorry that any opinion of mine should shake the authority of an established precedent; since it is better for the subject that even faulty precedents should not be shaken than that the law should be uncertain.
— Grose, J., Heathcote v. Crookshanks (1787), 2 T. R. 24.
Love is not love Which alters when it alteration find, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken.
— Sonnet CXVI. (Venus and Adonis (1593))
Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing,
Under the sky's gray arch;
Smiling, I watch the shaken elm-boughs, knowing
It is the wind of March.
— March, Stanza 1 (1892)
The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
— Niels Bohr, "Atomic Physics and the Description of Nature" (1934)
The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.
— Homer, The Iliad, Book I, line 666. Bryant's translation.
Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.
— P. 294. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
So shaken as we are, so wan with care.
— King Henry, scene i
[The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken. … They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. … I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.
— Jesus, Matthew 24:29-34, foretelling His Second Coming during the lifetimes of His disciples.
The Court has no fears for the safety of the Christian religion. It does not believe that the rock upon which Christianity stands can ever be shaken.
— Bayley, J., Trial of Mary Ann Carlile (1821), 1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 1050.
What is that ‘something’, some inherent strength? Doubtless it lies in the liberal character of the Indian civilization, which allows for cross-fertilization with other cultures, without losing its own identity. Even time (kala), the great devourer, has stood testimony to the fact that the deep foundations of Indian culture could not be shaken either by internal upheavals, however great may have been their magnitude.... " the soul of India lives on!"
— B B Lal, Archaeologist, [41]. (Quotes on Hinduism)
