Scandalous Quotes

• Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire, when the saying should have been, Where there's scandalous lies there's always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.

  Orson Scott Card

  Lying, Stupid, Fire

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.349, Macmillan

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• Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a group of stars which the ancients thought fit to call the Virgin, therefore, shall our women be barren, or have frequent miscarriages, or die old maids. I know of nothing which hangs so ill together! To offer such things in seriousness, shows the greatest contempt of mankind, and the most scandalous lying impunity.

  Pierre Bayle

  Stars, Lying, Miscarriage

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• One day you're there and then all of a sudden, there's less of you. And you wonder where that part went. If it's living somewhere outside of you. And you keep thinking maybe you'll get it back. And then you realize it's just gone.

  Elisabeth Moss

  Thinking, Mad Men, One Day

  "Mad Men: Meditations in an Emergency". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• I don't want to open my mouth or speak anymore, because everything I say becomes scandalous. It wears you out.

  Megan Fox

  Mouths, Want, Speak

  Interview with Zach Galifianakis, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 22, 2010.

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• Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.

  Judah Smith

  Jesus, Care, Scandal

  Judah Smith (2014). “Jesus Is Student Edition: Discovering Who He Is Changes Who You Are”, p.38, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• As soon as people realize that the majority of people in this country take drugs then the better off we'll all be. It's not like a scandalous sensation or anything like that... drugs is like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning.

  Noel Gallagher

  Country, Morning, People

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• Essential to the attainment of these national goals is the moral imperative of ensuring social justice and respect for human dignity. The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor. It bids us to break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed, scandalous social inequalities. Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Biblical, Voice

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• God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a 401(k), especially when there is someone in need.

  Shane Claiborne

  People, Community, Stuff

  Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would love to be a paparazzo.

  Helmut Newton

  Portraits

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• I interviewed Matt [Stone] and Trey [Parker], actually, and I got to ask them questions. I love them deeply because they appeared dressed as J-Lo and someone else [who had worn the same scandalous dresses the year before at the Oscars]. They confessed they were on acid.

  Eric Idle

  Years, Dresses, Stones

  Interview with Kyle Seasly, whitmanwire.com. May 13, 2013.

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• I'm not scandalous. I think it's actually embarrassing to be in those, yet some people will do anything to be in those magazines. I'm happy with who I am, and I'm happy with the way people portray me. If it's too normal, then that's their opinion.

  Hilary Duff

  Life Lesson, Thinking, Who I Am

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Poverty, Dignity, Gods Will

  Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”

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• THE LUXE IS . . . Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn. Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions. White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups. This is Manhattan in 1899.

  Anna Godbersen

  Girl, Lying, Party

  Anna Godbersen (2009). “The Luxe”, Harper Collins

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• When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

  Marguerite Duras

  Children, Drinking, Animal

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.17, Grove Press

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• Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitivities to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invading armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil, or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior.

  Herbert Hoover

  Suicide, Spiritual, Lying

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• This was an away-day for the deputy prime minister's staff, who've had a change of responsibilities [on John Prescott's scandalous playing habits... on the croquet lawn]

  Paul Clark

  Change, Responsibility, Habit

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• I know some of these guys who are in that stalkerazzi world, and you really have to separate them from the paparazzi in our industry. This is another breed. And they have their heroes who got the big scandalous shot, and which just promotes more of that.

  Brad Pitt

  Hero, Guy, World

  "Brad Pitt: 'Moneyball,' Life And 'The Stalkerazzi'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 22, 2011.

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• Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.

  Sophia Bush

  Stay Strong, Drunk, Reputation

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• And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.

  Jean Cocteau

  Hate, Simple, Men

  Jean Cocteau (1964). “The journals of Jean Cocteau”

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• When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was barred from the Fine Arts Club in the same city. What the novel has to offer, among other things, is honesty.

  Jane Smiley

  Art, Honesty, Home

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• The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it is repressed. To be confronted with this truth all at once and to try to integrate it into our consciousness, however ardently we may wish it, is clearly impossible.

  Alice Miller

  Childhood, Wish, Trying

  Alice Miller (1991). “Breaking down the wall of silence: the liberating experience of facing painful truth”, Penguin Press HC, The

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• You mean he came to your school? The scandalous rodent-loaf!

  Laini Taylor

  School, Mean, Rodents

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• I think it's scandalous that we haven't done more to cure cancer.

  Arlen Specter

  Cancer, Thinking, Done

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• If you married me,it would be scandalous and innapropriate, and doors would be closed to you." "Good God, woman, I let two of my sisters marry Gypsies. Those doors have already been closed, bolted, and nailed shut.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Doors, Two, Would Be

  Lisa Kleypas (2013). “The Hathaways Complete Series: Mine Till Midnight, Seduce Me at Sunrise, Tempt Me at Twilight, Married by Morning, and Love in the Afternoon”, p.1378, Macmillan

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• An artist, if he's unselfish and passionate, is always a living protest. Just to open his mouth is to protest: against conformism, against what is official, public, or national, what everyone else feels comfortable with, so the moment he opens his mouth, an artist is engaged, because opening his mouth is always scandalous.

  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  Artist, Passionate, Mouths

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