Shocking Quotes - Page 14

• Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.

  Stendhal

  Book, Ignorance, Thinking

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• Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.

  Stendhal

  Vanity, People, Littles

  "La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma)". Book by Stendhal (Chapter 6), 1839.

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• Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the contrary, it is the mark of an amiable and a beneficent temper, to say all the kind things one can, without flattery or playing the hypocrite,--and what never fails of procuring the love and esteem of every one; which, next to doing good to a deserving object who wants it, is one of the greatest pleasures of this life.

  Samuel Richardson

  Hypocrite, Want, Next

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• I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a light,as would render it eligible for human kind, that there should be such a state. These fine models of religion are the mere product of philosophy. For as death lies between the eye and the prospect of futurity, that event is so shocking to nature, that it must throw a gloom on all the regions which lie beyond it; and suggest to the generality of mankind the idea of Cerberus and Furies; devils, and torrents of fire and brimstone.

  David Hume

  Death, Lying, Philosophy

  David Hume, John Charles Addison Gaskin (1998). “Dialogues and Natural History of Religion”, p.127, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the proof of one obvious fact in terms of something equally .. obvious.

  Oliver Heaviside

  Science, People, Brain

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• Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Knives, Mad, Wife

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1865). “Verses and Translations”, p.61

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• I always want to see films that are startling and amazing. Not just shocking. Shocking is easy to do. But startling in the way that makes you change how you think about things. Those are the movies I like the best.

  John Waters

  Thinking, Want, Way

  Source: southpawfilmworks.net

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• When I was young, I had a list of things that I wanted in a husband. I knew what he should read and what sports he should like and blah, blah, blah. But the truth is, that the list was a shocking mirror image of me. You want to marry yourself when you are young. All the things you think are so urgently important, when you get older, you discover they don't have anything to do with love.

  Nora Ephron

  Sports, Husband, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Giving, Mind, Despair

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• His [Donald Trump ]comments are shocking, offensive and disturbing but I don't believe it merits a ban at this point in time.

  Keir Starmer

  Believe, Merit, Offensive

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I was in the fantasy. I was selling myself on the fantasy as I was doing it. It never occurred to me. I did take notes, but just because I am a writer. I've been a writer since I was five. You don't have any sort of outlandish, shocking, extraordinary, horrifying experience without writing it down, because I know and knew that you forget things. No matter how outrageous and amazing and extraordinary and seemingly unforgettable an experience is, it's kind of like a dream. It will erode inevitably, for me.

  Melissa Febos

  Dream, Writing, Erode

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For me, I like to have explosive moments, whether it is a particular movement itself in the whole sequence. I like to have shocking moments; for audiences to feel, like, 'Whoa!' It's always been my forte.

  Donnie Yen

  Movement, Moments, Feels

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• It was shocking to realize how many low-income Americans don't have savings accounts.

  Dan Ariely

  Low Income, Saving, Realizing

  "Mental depletion complicates financial decisions for the poor". Interview with Kristen Doerer, www.pbs.org. January 19, 2016.

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• Children do not see themselves as shocking or surprising and do not want other people to do so.

  Elizabeth Ferrars

  Children, People, Want

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• there's a natural depravity in inanimate things that's quite shocking, when you think of it.

  Josephine Pinckney

  Thinking, Inanimate Objects, Natural

  Josephine Pinckney (1948). “Great Mischief”, New York : Viking Press

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• Life seems somehow less shocking, painful, and lonely - and more hopeful, agreeable, and beautiful - when our experiences are confirmed by those of others. Although each of us is unique, there are familiar responses and doubts and joys that let us know we have kin. We are not, after all, too strange to live.

  Rosalie Maggio

  Family, Friends, Beautiful

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• On international relations, Eleanor Roosevelt really takes a great shocking leadership position on the World Court. In fact, it amuses me. The very first entry in her FBI file begins in 1924, when Eleanor Roosevelt supports American's entrance into the World Court. And the World Court comes up again and again - '33, '35. In 1935, Eleanor Roosevelt goes on the air; she writes columns; she broadcast three, four times to say the US must join the World Court.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Writing, Air, Support

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Jacksonian era is generally talked about in terms of individualism, and the development of free market capitalism, and Victorian prudery. It was shocking to find a parallel history to that - a bunch of Americans with very different priorities. I stumbled on to these people, and then became completely fixated on them. The question that drove me was: how did these reasonable people adopt these extremely unreasonable ideas?

  Christine Jennings

  Ideas, People, Priorities

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I honestly don't remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don't remember anything being shocking to me.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Book, Remember, Surprise

  "Wilco". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2007.

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• It was really shocking to me that when I was dating a dude I could get married and my taxes were 8 grand less, blah blah blah.

  Sia Furler

  Dating, Married, Blah

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• Of course, there remains the question of why we should find mind-brain identities so persistently counter-intuitive, if they are true. But this is a simple psychological question, and there are a number of plausible explanations. Indeed this is a topic that is quite extensively discussed outside philosophy, by developmental psychologists and theorists of religion among others, under the heading of 'intuitive dualism'. It is rather shocking that so few of the many philosophers working on 'the explanatory gap' are familiar with this empirical literature.

  David Papineau

  Philosophy, Simple, Numbers

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• I'm very surprised at Carol didn't get a best picture. Todd Haynes is an Academy darling, his period pieces are nothing short of brilliant, and they hold up. And I definitely feel like Carol speaks to, even though it's set in the past, it speaks to themes we're dealing with in life right now. It's really really shocking that it didn't get it.

  Bun B

  Past, Pieces, Brilliant

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• If you live in a free market and a free society, shouldn't you have the right to know what you're buying? It's shocking that we don't and it's shocking how much is kept from us.

  Robert Kenner

  Buying, Free Market, Free Society

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• when two people unite, kindness must be mutual, or shocking things will happen.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Kindness, Two, People

  Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books

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• The camera can capture thought in a way that's quite surprising and shocking. You can become very simple and minimal in your work and communicate a lot with just a finger or an eyebrow, or a look, or a glance.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Simple, Eyebrows, Way

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