Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives…

“Go like hell and go to the grave satisfied.” He”

— Clive Cussler

Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

After the events of last week, I'm appalled at the standard Australia seems to be willing to accept in regards to its own behaviour…

— Clementine Ford

If you met me in London, you might be appalled at how English I sounded.

— Pollyanna McIntosh

You have to let kids live their own lives and make their mistakes, but it is difficult now because there are so many things…

— Dawn French

“More shouts, and then my father was there, staring down at me in horror: the minor pagan god, appalled at what his worshiper had…

— Marie Brennan

“Because her general taste appalled him, it annoyed him that he himself constituted one of her favorites. It was an anomaly which he had…

— Philip K. Dick

I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the slightest idea of what is being done in their name,…

— Noam Chomsky

I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder. I was appalled by defense attorneys who would do anything to win an acquittal…

— Dominick Dunne

I have always been appalled by the depiction of female CIA operatives.

— Valerie Plame

I went from rotary phone to Twitter. And was appalled at the notion.

— Jeff Perry

“A month or two before, I would have been appalled at the idea of any murder at all. But that Sunday afternoon, as I…

— Donna Tartt

When people say 'love to hate', they actually mean 'love to be appalled by' - if they truly hated them, they'd never repeat a…

— Chris Morris

We are now paying the cost of people who move jobs overseas as taxpayers, and people are appalled when they hear that.

— Debbie Stabenow

I think Gypsy [Rose Lee] would be appalled at today's rawer, more blatant displays of the female form. She was, in her own way,…

— Karen Abbott