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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).
Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the abuses and treasons of its friends have not shaken its stability.
horace bushnell— P. 149. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Says Oliver Cromwell: "What are all histories but God manifesting Himself, that He hath shaken down and trampled under foot whatsoever He hath not planted?" History is not a series of jumbled happenings. God is in the facts of history as truly as He is in the march of the seasons, the revolution of the planets, or the architecture of the worlds.
john lanahan— P. 426. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
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).
At one time, many philosophers held that faultless "laws of thought" were somehow inherent, a priori, in the very nature of mind. This belief was twice shaken in the past century; first when Russell and his successors showed how the logic men employ can be defective, and later when Freud and Piaget started to reveal the tortuous ways in which our minds actually develop.
jean piaget— Marvin Minsky, "Jokes and their Relation to the Cognitive Unconscious" (1980)
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— The Cloud, St. 1 (1820)
The seriousness of my situation started to sink in, and again I fought panic. I pushed it down, but it was harder this time, like my insides were an open can of shaken soda and I was trying to keep it from bubbling up out of the top.
abby sunderland— p. 158 (Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (Thomas Nelson))
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.
One day I decided to try to have a complete day without tea. I was quite shaken. I was quite disturbed.
— Morrissey, interviewed for Victoria Wood's Nice Cup of Tea (2013), BBC Televison
Island of bliss! amid the subject Seas, That thunder round thy rocky coasts, set up, At once the wonder, terror, and delight Of distant nations; whose remotest shore Can soon be shaken by thy naval arm; Not to be shook thyself, but all assaults Baffling, like thy hoar cliffs the loud sea-wave.
james thomson— James Thomson, The Seasons, Summer (1727), line 1,597.
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))
Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken, Silent, and soft, and slow Descends the snow.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Snow-Flakes.
Canada, having few indigenous prejudices, has been compelled to import them from elsewhere, duty-free, and it is the rare Canadian who is not shaken, at some time in the year, by "old, unhappy, far-off things / And battles long ago", like Wordsworth's solitary reaper. We are a nation of immigrants, and not happy in our minds.
Robertson Davies— Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks.
For several reasons we should not depart from these adjudged cases:;; but chiefly, from the inconvenience of altering and overturnirig settled determinations. It is best, stare decisis. The overturning settled determinations would be of very bad consequence: they ought not to be shaken.
— Lord Mansfield, Rex v. Inhabitants of Underbarrow and Bradley-Field (1766), Burrow (Settlement Cases), 548.
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)
Iwould likea mediumVodka dry Martiniwith a slice of lemon peel. shaken and not stirred, please. I would prefer Russian or Polish vodka.
Ian Lancaster Fleming— 1958 Dr No, ch.14.
”And I would like a medium Vodka dry Martini — with a slice of lemon peel. shaken and not stirred, please. I would prefer Russian or Polish vodka.”
ian fleming— James Bond
A thought by thought is piled, till some great truth Is loosened, and the nations echo round, shaken to their roots, as do the mountains now.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound (1820), Act II, scene 3.
