Shocked Quotes

• Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

  Mae West

  Change, Sarcastic, Witty

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• We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Laughing, Honor

  "Don't mock Tim Tebow" by William J. Bennett, www.cnn.com. December 6, 2011.

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• It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.

  Jonah Hill

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

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• We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn’t it comforting to know God isn’t ever broken? He isn’t ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Taken, People, Broken

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Aug 30, 2016

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• I am grateful to learn from their mistakes, because I am not injecting s- into my face. I see them and my heart breaks. I think, 'Oh God, if you only know how much older you look.' They are trying to stop the clock and all you can see is an insecure person who won't let themselves just age. I also have a fiancé who will put a gun to my head if I touch my face in any way.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Mistake, Grateful, Heart

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• Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.

  Julia Roberts

  Doctors, Office, Stories

  "Julia Roberts: I’m A Hindu, I Don’t Believe In Botox". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2010.

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• It’s unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don’t even give themselves a chance to see what they’ll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I’ll look like before I start cleaning the slates.

  Julia Roberts

  Ideas, Giving, Looks

  "Julia Roberts: I’m A Hindu, I Don’t Believe In Botox". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2010.

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• L. A. is crazy. The women all look the same now. That thing with the cheeks. Like Madonna. Who do they think they're fooling? It doesn't make them look young. You end up looking like a freak.

  Sofia Vergara

  Crazy, Thinking, Looks

  "Sofia Vergara Is a Woman We Love" By A.J. Jacobs, www.esquire.com. August 9, 2010.

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• I want my kids to know when I'm pissed, when I'm happy and when I'm confounded.

  Julia Roberts

  Kids, Botox, Want

  "Julia Roberts: I’m A Hindu, I Don’t Believe In Botox". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2010.

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• I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.

  Lady Gaga

  Love, Life, Happiness

  "Lady Gaga: Plastic Surgery Is ‘Promoting Insecurity", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2011.

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• I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.

  Olivia Wilde

  Blonde, Brunette, Natural

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• Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

  Rachel Weisz

  Expression, Iron, Acting

  "Rachel Weisz Style Evolution: From Uggs To The Oscars", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2013.

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• I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.

  Lady Gaga

  Singers, Plastic, Pops

  "Lady Gaga: Plastic Surgery Is 'Promoting Insecurity'". Interview with Derek Blasberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2011.

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• I would be scared to go under the knife, but you know, talk to me when I'm 50. I'll try anything. Except I won't do Botox again, because I looked crazy. I looked like Joan Rivers!

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Crazy, Epic

  "Gwyneth Paltrow: Botox Made Me Look ‘Crazy’ Like Joan Rivers" by Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2013.

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• Ian Watson did an almost full novel length treatment which I've never seen and when he finished it Stanley said to him. I need somebody to smear this with vaginal jelly, and I have to say when I first heard this that I was rather shocked, because he was quite gentlemanly.

  Sara Maitland

  Firsts, Jelly, Needs

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• "From the reign of Nero to that of Antoninus Pius," Gibbon says again, "the Jews discovered a fierce impatience of the dominion of Rome which repeatedly broke out in the most furious massacres and insurrections. Humanity is shocked at the recital of the horrid cruelties which the Jews committed in the cities of Egypt, of Cyprus, and of Cyrene, where they dwelt in treacherous friendship with the unsuspecting natives...In Cyrene they massacred 220,000 Greeks; in Cyprus 240,000; in Egypt a very great multitude. Many of these unhappy victims were sawed asunder..."

  Nesta Helen Webster

  Cities, Egypt, Rome

  Nesta Helen Webster (1921). “World Revolution: The Plot Against Civilization”

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• Sometimes I look back and I am shocked. Everyday of my life I have prepared for success, worked for it, waited for it, and you don't notice how the days pass until nearly a lifetime is finished. Then it hits you--the thing you have been waiting for has already gone by. And it was going in the other direction. It's like I've been waiting on the wrong side of the road for a bus that was already full." p. 265

  Monica Ali

  Waiting, Everyday, Looks

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• Sometimes I look at where we've come to, and how much technology and advancement there is, and I can't believe that we're not this perfectly balanced, beautiful, peaceful society. I'm shocked that we're so deeply polarized, that there are people who want progress and they feel guilty for wanting progress, because it somehow seems un-American, because being American means staying ignorant and going backward.

  Rashida Jones

  Beautiful, Believe, Mean

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The arc of my mind has an equal swing in all directions. I should say the same of your mind if I thought you would believe it. But we are so saturated with the notion that Time is a dimension accessible from one direction only, that you will at first probably be shocked by my saying that I can see truly as far in front of me as I can see exactly behind me.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Time, Believe, One Direction

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• I'm always shocked by the people who I'm attracted to. It's always completely random. I generally like people who are a bit crazy but yeah, that's pretty much my only prerequisite.

  Robert Pattinson

  Crazy, People, Romance

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• Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.

  Alan Greenspan

  Fall, Looks, Causes

  "Q&A with Alan Greenspan: ‘Did we make mistakes? You bet’". Interview with Martin Crutsinger, www.seattletimes.com. October 21, 2013.

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• Again, your challenge is not just to improve. It is to break the service paradigm in your industry or market so that customers aren't just satisfied, they're so shocked that they tell strangers on the street how good you are.

  Jack Welch

  Challenges, Stranger, Break

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• "Are you trying to tell me that you've never been kissed?" I pressed my tongue to the roof of my mouth. He looked so dubious, and his tone had bordered on insulting. "Yeah. So?" "So, I'm shocked, that's all. You're...you." In-sul-ting. "Me?" I asked stiffly. "Yeah. Hot," he said. Wait. Me? Hot? He laughed down at me. "No one's told you that, either, have they?" I could only shake my head. "You've clearly been hanging around idiots."

  Gena Showalter

  Waiting, Insulting, Trying

  "Alice in Zombieland". Book by Gena Showalter, 2012.

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• Not only will you sleep with me, but you will say 'please.'" I stared at him, shocked. The smile widened. "You will say 'please' before and 'thank you' after." Nervous laughter bubbled up. "You've gone insane. All that peroxide in your hair finally did your brain in, Goldilocks.

  Ilona Andrews

  Laughter, Sleep, Hair

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.179, Penguin

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• When Catherine told me about this (tragedy nearby), I could only say, shocked, "Dear God, that family needs grace." She replied firmly, "That family needs casseroles," and then proceeded to organize the entire neighborhood into bringing that family dinner, in shifts, every single night, for an entire year. I do not know if my sister fully recognizes that this _is_ grace.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Night, Years, Grace

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