Shocking Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd, because - first of all - Islam demands no such thing; and secondly, the only country in the world in which women can't drive is Saudi Arabia. The inability to understand the difference between a cultural practice and religious belief is shocking among self-described intellectuals.

  Reza Aslan

  Leadership, Wisdom, Country

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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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• What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality.

  Ronald Dworkin

  Ideas, Community, Morality

  Ronald Dworkin (2013). “Taking Rights Seriously”, p.305, A&C Black

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• Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness.

  Ali Smith

  Goodness, Shattered, Filled

  Ali Smith (2007). “The Accidental”, p.49, Anchor

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• Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.

  H. G. Wells

  Writing, Heart, Blow

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.3110, Delphi Classics

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• In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.

  Stendhal

  Ideas, Judging, Matter

  "De L'Amour (On Love)". Book by Stendhal ("Fragments"), 1822.

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• I was speechless. Rare for me, but if anyone was capable of shocking me to silence, it was my mother.

  Robyn

  Mother, Silence, Speechless

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• When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that occurs in life should be omitted from art, though the artist should present it in a fashion that is artistic and not ugly. I set out to tell the truth. And sometimes the truth is shocking.

  Tennessee Williams

  Fashion, Art, Writing

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• Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Love, Earth, Faces

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• [Slave] trade ... is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish ... liberty, and makes every dealer in it a tyrant, from the director of an African company to the petty chapman [peddler].... It is a clear truth, that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

  James Otis

  Men, Law, Tyrants

  "Argument Against the Writs of Assistance". "Argument Against the Writs of Assistance" by James Otis Jr., 1761.

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• There is no sin worse in life than being boring--and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do. I was one of the few heiresses to walk the runway as a model. A lot of people thought that was shocking. Why did I do it? Was it a desperate cry for attention, like the papers said? Hardly. It's not like I need any more attention. Did I do it for money? Of course not. Modeling doesn't pay that well, anyway, unless you're Gisele or Cindy Crawford, or, like Patti Hansen, you get to marry a rock star. I did it because it was fun.

  Paris Hilton

  Stars, Fun, Rocks

  Paris Hilton (2012). “Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-In-Chic Peek Behind the Pose”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• I had, in my legal practice, often encountered really shocking examples of the devastating impact of the costs of long-term medical care on meagre incomes. And, just before I was elected, I had my own personal experience in paying very considerable bills for my mother's terminal illness.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Mother, Impact, Practice

  "Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage" by Judy LaMarsh, Ch. 6, (pp. 120-121), 1969.

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• It's shocking how sophisticated little kids can be, when it comes to behaving in a professional manner, and that's a credit to their parents.

  Sean Astin

  Kids, Parent, Credit

  "Sean Astin Talks MOM'S NIGHT OUT, Being in a Good, Clean Comedy, Guillermo del Toro's THE STRAIN, Being Game for a GOONIES Sequel, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 8, 2014.

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• Some people even think that I'm still just not right for it [ballet]. And I think it's shocking because they hear those words from critics saying I'm too bulky, I'm too busty. And then they meet me in person and they're like, you look like a ballerina. And I think it's just something maybe that I will never escape from, those people who are narrow-minded. But my mission, my voice, my story, my message, is not for them. And I think it's more important to think of the people that I am influencing and helping to see a broader picture of what beauty is.

  Misty Copeland

  Thinking, Voice, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking and mesmerizing performance, a tour-de-force of provocative and often alarming ideas. It is a rare novel that has the potential to set science fiction on an entirely new course. Blindsight is such a book.

  Karl Schroeder

  Book, Taken, Ideas

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• I'm not a real blond... Shocking.

  Alona Tal

  Real

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

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• No sane person wants hell to exist. No sane person wants evil to exist. But hell is just evil eternalized. If there is evil and if there is eternity, there can be hell. If it is intellectually dishonest to disbelieve in evil just because it is shocking and uncomfortable, it is the same with hell. Reality has hard corners, surprises, and terrible dangers in it. We desperately need a true road map, not nice feelings, if we are to get home. It is true, as people often say, that "hell just feels unreal, impossible." Yes. So does Auschwitz. So does Calvary.

  Peter Kreeft

  Nice, Home, Reality

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Appologetics”, p.44, Ignatius Press

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• I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.

  Katherine Waterston

  Surprise, Surprise Me

  "Springboard: ‘Inherent Vice’ Breakout Katherine Waterston Is Still Having Her ‘Pinch Me’ Moment". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. November 07, 2014.

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• The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential - small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Differences, Yesterday, Atoms

  "Being Digital". Book by Nicholas Negroponte, 1995.

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• I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Goal, Needs

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• He is the ugliest thing I have ever seen. I have watched Lord of the Rings and films with strange looking people, but for a human being to look like he does is pretty shocking.

  David Haye

  Motivation, People, Doe

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• They do not signify, these landscapes of the mind, with their shocking instants of awareness. They merely resonate, like the chemistry of lovers, throughout our solitary lives

  Jim Perrin

  Climbing, Solitary Life, Mind

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• One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Hey, May, Facts

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• I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights...It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday.

  Regina Spektor

  Gay, Thinking, Rights

  "What Regina Spektor Sees From the Cheap Seats". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. May 2012.

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