When he kisses me, I cry. I explain it's not because I wish he were someone else, it's because it's such a… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures… — Ernst Toller Copy Share Image
“Now if you are told that some piece of information will come as a shock to you, the chances are that you… — Walter R. Brooks Copy Share Image
“Seriously massive fucking firearms,” I add, staring at the weapon in my trembling hands with my very first dose of—and here it… — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
I was shocked to my marrow the very first time I heard the Church is saying a man can marry a man.… — Peter Akinola Copy Share Image
Going into that race I was going for the world record, just quietly, but I wasn't feeling at my best all week… — Leisel Jones Copy Share Image
The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
Imagine an American Hans Christian Andersen, conceive of the Brothers Grimm living in Missouri, and you will approximate Howard Schwartz, a fable-maker… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Now, some people do this for shock value. Shock is just another uptown word for surprise. Granted it has a different quality… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word “Book’s” with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
By helping to raise man above the level of bestial vegetation, faith contributes in reality to the securing and safeguarding of his… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Thank you, Dain," she said. "I should like that very much. I've never seen a proper wrestling match before." "I daresay it… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
Madonna's not the best singer in the world, but she was awesome with her entertainment and all of her shock tactics and… — Joss Stone Copy Share Image
“There are two types of fear: There is a fear of something that is presently before you, be it a monster under… — Leigh Hershkovich Copy Share Image
I was in such a state of mental shock and quickly spiraled into a depression at the multitude of loss. My husband,… — Paula Broadwell Copy Share Image
“It’s a big shift. I don’t know quite how to explain it. Between wanting and not wanting, caring and not caring. Of… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved -… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
I’d only met him once, at the mall. He was tall, with a big floppy shock of blond hair he was always… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
All of my life I've been met with shock and disbelief if I've ever come out with anything remotely smart, as if… — Stacey Solomon Copy Share Image
When you live with Dickens for years, reading him and trying to present him as faithfully as you can, you can't fail… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I think that people are having to do like really crazy things to shock people now, to get people's attention and it… — Joss Stone Copy Share Image
You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
This may sound mad, but you sort of assume that no one's going to watch what you do. You go on set,… — Olivia Colman Copy Share Image
When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
“Stripped of context, the physical sensations exploded: the surprising shock of heat from that skin-to-skin grip; the soft hiss of the bracelets… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I thought I was Superman until I experienced that life-changing anaphylactic shock. I was eating lunch and gobbled down a couple of… — Adrian Peterson Copy Share Image
“You never told me his name," the boy says. Time skips a beat, pauses, breathes out. She nuzzles her face against the… — C.G. Drews Copy Share Image
I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reaction to death is sometimes as violent as death itself. Shock throws a cautious coolness over your senses, but your stomach… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
“There had seemed no other way to view her, not until that moment when he'd fallen from the window. Rude shock: running… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
The duty of a philosopher is clear. He must take every pain to ascertain the truth; and, having arrived at a conclusion,… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
“Ricky just listens. He isn't shocked. He isn't surprised. He listens to me because he knows. He knows the shame and the… — Emily Andrews Copy Share Image
We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Our goals and what we hope to achieve by moving to food assistance is even in supporting the crisis needs of the… — Ertharin Cousin Copy Share Image
This can come as a shock to those Christians who are so used to hearing that Jesus is the solution to sin… — Doug Pagitt Copy Share Image
