Shocked Quotes - Page 10

• Focus on the positive things in your life and you'll be shocked at how many more positive things start happening

  Sophia Amoruso

  Focus, Happenings, Positive Things

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.129, Penguin

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• In the case of judges, I wouldn't be shocked to find out the number on television exceeds the number in real life — what is it about those black robes that makes us think ovaries?

  Jane Espenson

  Real, Thinking, Numbers

  "How to Succeed at Vampire Slaying and Keep Your Soul". www.latimes.com. March 20, 2005.

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• A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist «chaos» of the painting, asked Picasso: «Did you do this?» Picasso calmly replied: «No, you did this!»

  Slavoj Žižek

  War, Paris, Guernica

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• The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  World, Hearing, Christianity

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• I love to hold people's hands when I visit hospitals, even though they are shocked because they haven't experienced anything like it before, but to me it is a normal thing to do.

  Princess Diana

  Hands, People, Normal

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• But how can you know anything of the impression made on others? Who can assure you that others do not draw therefrom incentives to evil? You do not know the depths of human frailty. . . Oh, how truly was it said that if some Christian women could only suspect the temptations and falls they cause in others with modes of dress and familiarity in behavior, which they unthinkingly consider as of no importance, they would be shocked by the responsibility which is theirs.

  Pope Pius XII

  Christian, Fall, Responsibility

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• I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Attitude, Media, Secret

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• A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open, or again that "E is dense in E" does not mean the same thing as "E is dense in itself".

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Learning, Mean, Math

  John Edensor Littlewood (1953). “A mathematicians's miscellany”

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• My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked.

  Elliott Smith

  Song, Girlfriend, Records

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• I was shocked at the anger toward me.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Anger

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• Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.

  Peter Kreeft

  Jesus, Opposites, Joy

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• A road-wise folkie with a bluesy soul reminiscent of early Michelle Shocked, Melissa Crabtree is an original storyteller and performer not to be missed.

  Catie Curtis

  Wise, Soul, Melissa

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• I was shocked to my marrow the very first time I heard the Church is saying a man can marry a man. What? It is from that shock, that surprise, how is that possible? Is it a kind of experiment or something? They are sick or tired of normal heterosexual relationships? How could that be?

  Peter Akinola

  Tired, Men, Sick

  The Times, July 05, 2007.

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• I was having problems with depression and anxiety disorder, and it felt like not blogging about it was creating a false history. When I did finally share the problems I was having, I was shocked - not only by the support that was given to me, but also by the incredible amount of people who admitted they struggled with the same thing.

  Jenny Lawson

  Anxiety Disorder, Creating, People

  "Sassy Bloggess Jenny Lawson Mandates Cheesecake for Everyone...and for You to Read Her (Mostly True) Memoir, Out Today". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. April 17, 2012.

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• Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.

  John Wyndham

  Children, Taught, Different

  John Wyndham (2003). “The Day of the Triffids”

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• I'm quite shocked by the recent British media stories about an alleged brawl between myself and Dereck Chisora. I am a professional prize fighter and let my fists do the talking only inside the ring. I don't want to comment on Chisora's psychological issues.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Media, Talking, Issues

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• I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.

  Ursula Andress

  "How Can Women Make Beauty Last, Inside and Out?". Larry King Live, transcripts.cnn.com. June 8, 2000.

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• I've tried to find a new elegance. It's not easy because people want to be shocked. They want explosive fashion. But explosions don't last, they disappear immediately and leave nothing but ashes.

  Giorgio Armani

  Fashion, People, Ashes

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• Dear America, when you tell gay Americans that they can't serve their country openly or marry the person that they love, you're telling that to kids too. So don't be f**king shocked and wonder where all these bullies are coming from that are torturing young kids and driving them to kill themselves because they're different; they learned it from watching you.

  Sarah Silverman

  Country, Kings, Love You

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• When I beat Sonny Liston, I shocked the world. When I joined the Muslims, I shocked the world. When I beat George Forman, I shocked the world. I am from the House of Shock

  Muhammad Ali

  House, World, Beats

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Dec 18, 2014

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• Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.

  Holly Near

  Hurt, Artist, Willing

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• We all pulled together at the right time, unfortunately, we were down 3-0 to the Yankees when we decided to do it, but we did it. And we shocked the world.

  Johnny Damon

  Yankees, Together, Racist

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• Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.

  Anne Stevenson

  Suicide, Sorry, Half

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• Not to wax nostalgic about the 1970s, but back then people got upset when they saw injustice. They got tired of seeing our air, land and water polluted. They were shocked when the Cuyahoga River in Ohio was polluted so badly it caught fire. And on one great day 20 million Americans marched all across this land. Politicians had no choice but to take notice.

  John F. Kerry

  Tired, Fire, Air

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• I am, as a European, absolutely shocked by European people. I am also shocked by European nationalist people. They have allowed themselves to be so emasculated so silently.

  Ernst Zundel

  People, Quiet

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