Stunned Quotes

• I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Numbness, Emotion, Default

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.312, Macmillan

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• A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I'd said something cool, but I was stunned.

  Jason Biggs

  Girl, Apples, Pie

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• People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

  Ralph Nader

  Technology, Data, People

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• I was stunned to see that he looked stunned himself, which was an exorbitant display of emotion for Barrons.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Emotion, Display

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.51, Delacorte Press

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• She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Truth, Women

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• It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed numerous and great, and cannot be overcome at once. To make progress is a kind of miner’s work; it doesn’t advance as quickly as one would like, and as others also expect, but as one stands before such a task, the basic necessities are patience and faithfulness. In fact, I do not think much about the difficulties, because if one thought of them too much one would get stunned or disturbed.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Disappointment, Thinking, Drawing

  Vincent van Gogh (1963). “Letters”, Atheneum Books for Young Readers

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• I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned.

  Britt Ekland

  Beautiful, Years, Saws

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• confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Confused, War, Ducks

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned

  Patty Duke

  Mirrors, Mind, Looks

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.299, Bantam

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• Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes away entirely.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moon, Views, Mind Blowing

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• The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Vocabulary, Blind Spots, People

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

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• Empty canvas. In appearance - really empty, silent, indifferent. Stunned, almost. In effect - full of tensions, with thousand subdued voices, heavy with expectations. A little frightened because it may be violated

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Voice, Expectations, May

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• Call saw that everyone was looking at him, the hands and cowboys and townspeople alike. The anger had drained out of him, leaving him feeling tired. He didn't remember the fight, particularly, but people were looking at him as if they were stunned. He felt he should make some explanation, though it seemed to him a simple situation. "I hate a man that talks rude," he said. "I won't tolerate it.

  Larry McMurtry

  Hate, Tired, Fighting

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• I looked him in the eye, "I will always love you." Then plunged the stake into his chest. It wasn't as precise a blow as I would have liked, not with the skilled way he was dodging. I struggled to get the stake in deep enough to his heart, unsure if I could do it from this angle. Then, his struggles stopped. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile, albeit a grisly and pained one. "That's what I was supposed to say..." he gasped out.

  Richelle Mead

  Struggle, Love You, Heart

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• Unless you stop him. Perhaps next we meet." "You'll be just as annoying?" I guessed. He fixed my with those warm brown eyes. "Or perhaps you could bring me up to speed on those modern courtship rituals." I sat there stunned until he gave me a glimpse of a smile-just enough to let me know he was teasing. Then he disappeared. "Oh, very funny!" I yelled.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Glimpse, Next

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• We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.

  Brennan Manning

  Holy Ground, Names, Mouths

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.68, Multnomah

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• I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Years, Cities, People

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• Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came back into her body. Now, as she looked at him, she felt the same way she had felt then, breathless, stunned, nauseated.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Years, Tree, Six Year Olds

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• I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

  Terry Pratchett

  Knighthood, Genre, Glad

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• Then, his struggles stopped. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile, albeit a grisly and pained one. "That’s what I was supposed to say..." he gasped out. Those were his last words.

  Richelle Mead

  Struggle, Eye, Lasts

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.224, Penguin

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• Holy [Insert your choice of a swear word here]," said Fang stunned.

  James Patterson

  Choices, Maximum Ride, Holy

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• An Unbreakable Vow?" said Ron, looking stunned. "Nah, he can’t have.... Are you sure?" "Yes I’m sure," said Harry. "Why, what does it mean?" "Well, you can’t break an Unbreakable Vow..." "I’d worked that much out for myself, funnily enough.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Doe, Unbreakable

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• I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he had come from.

  Anne Lamott

  Son, Earth, Remember

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.139, Penguin

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• ...You find a way, somehow to get through the most horrible things, things you think would kill you. You find a way and you move through the days, one by one, in shock, in despair, but you move. The days pass, one after the other, and you go along with them - occasionally stunned, and not entirely relieved, to find that you are still alive.

  Michelle Richmond

  Moving, Thinking, Despair

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• I poo poo the chit.' The attendant looked stunned. 'You cannot poo-poo the chit!' I do.' Kate said solemnly. 'I do poo-poo.' We'll walk.

  Kenneth Oppel

  Said, Walks, Kate

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