Shocking Quotes - Page 14

• The Internet makes money for you when you build something that is real and when it matters to people!

  Darren Rowse

  Real, People, Marketing

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• Even Gone With the Wind had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.

  Karin Slaughter

  Wind, Gone, Cold

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• This perpetual round of constrained civilities to persons quite indifferent to us, is the most provoking and tiresome thing in theworld, but it is unavoidable in a country town, where everybody is known.... 'Tis a most shocking and unworthy way of spending our precious irrecoverable time, to those who know not its value.

  Fanny Burney

  Country, Time, Way

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• We don’t like to think of ourselves as prey—it is a lessening thought—but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we forget that we are not unique. We are part of nature as much as other animals, and some animals—sharks, fever-bearing mosquitoes, wolves and bear, to name but a few—perceive us as a food source, a meat supply, and simply did not get the memo about how humans are superior. It can be shocking, humbling, painful, very edifying and sometimes downright fatal to run into such an animal.

  Gary Paulsen

  Running, Animal, Unique

  Gary Paulsen (2003). “Brian's Hunt”, p.65, Wendy Lamb Books

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• The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Success, Congratulations

  Twitter post from Jul 28, 2015

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• It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.

  Mark Udall

  Holocaust, Documentation, Horror

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• It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Country, Religious, Views

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• The disconnect between America and its military is shocking.

  John Oliver

  Military, America

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. July 1, 2013.

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• In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.

  Al Gore

  Time, Creativity, Creative

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• He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man wonder if I've missed this, what else have I failed to see?

  John Steinbeck

  Reality, Men, Discovery

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.46, Penguin

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• What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that.

  Michael Cunningham

  Morning, Simple, Trying

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.199, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none of the selfless love of my mother. I have none of the plodding, practical love. . . . . I am, to be blunt and concise, in love only with myself, my puny being with its small inadequate breasts and meager, thin talents. I am capable of affection for those who reflect my own world.

  Sylvia Plath

  Mother, Selfless, World

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.98, Anchor

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• I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Angel, Feels

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1994). “These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993”, p.67, New Directions Publishing

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• Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Life, Fall, Writing

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• That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Money, War

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including “The Life of Thomas Paine”): Deistic Critique of Bible and Christian Church”, p.331, e-artnow

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• It's really hard when a celebrity dies out of nowhere, 'cause it's very shocking... surreal.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Causes, Surreal, Dies

  "Ashley Tisdale Talks Michael Jackson's Influence On 'Hsm' Cast" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. June 30, 2009.

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• A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

  Tacitus

  Inspirational, Blessing, Reality

  Cornelius Tacitus (1964). “The histories”

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• I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?

  Jane Smiley

  Doe, Embarrassment, Knows

  "Capitalist Pigs" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of a controlled substance.

  Pat Robertson

  Thinking, Wind, People

  "Pat Robertson: Pot should be legal like alcohol". www.foxnews.com. March 8, 2012.

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• It was a such a surprise, such an absolute shocking surprise to me to not know what you're doing and to find out that this thing that you don't even know how to do, that you're sure you don't know how to do, speaks to so many people and touches so many people in some way.

  Judy Blume

  People, Way, Speak

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I want to commend the men and women at CPAC. As activists fighting for liberty, fighting for the Constitution, y'all are incredibly important. You are incredibly important number one in shocking and terrifying the mainstream media.

  Ted Cruz

  Fighting, Men, Numbers

  Source: time.com

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• I believe that couture is not about shocking.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Believe, I Believe, Couture

  Source: www.dazeddigital.com

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• Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it a shocking and terrifying event [9/11], particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people. It was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of the American military establishment.

  Edward Said

  Military, Heart, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• My mom and I have always been very close since she did raise me as like a single mom. My friends and everyone I know are like, 'Wow, you guys really have a really good relationship.' She's with me a lot of the time, so people find that kind of shocking.

  Tiffany Trump

  Mom, People, Good Relationship

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Ronald Reagan came to office and had already been an experienced politician as governor of California, whose ideology and ideas, no matter how simplistic or no matter how much you may disagree with them, were fairly well-developed and fairly consistent. Donald Trump is a real-estate branding operator and a reality-show television star whose entrance into big-time politics, as a victor, as someone who will now wield tremendous power, was as shocking to him as it was to everybody else.

  David Remnick

  Stars, Real, Ideas

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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