Shocking Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Some say "The end is near," as if that is shocking news. The truth is, the end is always near. What is actually shocking is that we, ourselves, can help to choose which end.

  T.A. Barron

  News, Helping, Truth Is

  T. A. Barron (2011). “Ultimate Magic”, p.46, Penguin

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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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• 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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• I'm not a real blond... Shocking.

  Alona Tal

  Real

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

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

  Sandra Bernhard

  Love, Earth, Faces

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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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• 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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• [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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• 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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• 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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• Speaker, with mixed emotions we mark the 50th anniversary of the Turkish genocide of the Armenian people. In taking notice of the shocking events in 1915, we observe this anniversary with sorrow in recalling the massacres of Armenians and with pride in saluting those brave patriots who survived to fight on the side of freedom during World War I.

  Gerald R. Ford

  War, Fighting, Pride

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• Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.

  Jane Porter

  Passionate, Daring

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• writing is about doing something very close to the bone. It's about shocking yourself. When I write, I like to make myself cry, laugh - I like to give myself an experience. I see a lot of writing out there that's very safe. But if you're not scaring yourself, why would you think that you'd be scaring anybody else? If you're not coming to a revelation about your place in the universe, why would you think anyone else would?

  Kate Braverman

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

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• I don't think we are the same, women and men. We're different. But I don't think we are less than men. There are more women than men in the world - ask any single woman! So, it is shocking that men are in more positions of power.

  Salma Hayek

  Men, Thinking, Position Of Power

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• Content is king, but marketing is queen, and runs the household.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Running, Kings, Queens

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