Shocking Quotes

292 quotes by 273 authors

Some people are asking me questions like this is a more shocking subject, which is so strange. — Daniel Radcliffe
If one accepts the 24thÂ and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions. If we take… — Wendell Berry
A third of summer sea ice in the Arctic is gone, the oceans are 30 percent more acidic, and since warm air holds more water… — Bill McKibben
Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear… — Susan Sontag
Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness. — Ali Smith
At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext… — Thelonious Monk
A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which the… — Margery Allingham
I don't like that particular word 'shocking.' I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before â€¦ I was in a… — Robert Mapplethorpe
The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, "people without lives." We don't care. We have each… — Dave Barry
It is a sad and shocking fact that many religious people are in Hell. — John R. Rice
Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the… — Mahatma Gandhi
[About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got physically ill when… — Carl Safina
The "difficult" female character can-and will-do the shocking, the unexpected and, as a consequence, will give your story an immediate jolt of energy. She is… — Jane Heller
In Sussex Drive, Linda Svendsen takes us deep behind the lines of Ottawaâ€™s politics, polls and pomp, and into the lives of Canadaâ€™s two most… — Terry Fallis
If you ever expect life to be fair, you are in for a shocking disappointment. Life is what it is. Fair is something we made… — Michael Treanor
The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways. — Mike Lofgren
Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices. — Fred Upton
There have been the most terrible, shocking events taking place in the United States of America within the last couple of hours.... We can only… — Tony Blair
But though such is our character (Oh. why should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?), the things said of us are an example… — Athenagoras of Athens
It's shocking that so many children still live in fear as a result of violence in the home, and don't know who to turn to… — Gordon Ramsay

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