Shocking Quotes - Page 20

• It's shocking when someone who is really bad thinks they're really good. It's heartbreaking, because singing is such a vulnerable thing to do.

  Anna Camp

  Thinking, Singing, Heartbreaking

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn`t trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn`t think of myself as liberated, and I don`t believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn`t know any other way to be, or any other way to live.

  Bettie Page

  Believe, Thinking, Important

  FaceBook post by Bettie Page from Aug 26, 2013

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• It's kind of interesting to experience that kind of a ride after well, essentially so many years of enjoying a career based on failures and then suddenly something clicks. The weird thing is, I never changed a thing. The process is still the process as it ever was. The fact that people decided to go and see a movie that I was in was probably the most shocking thing that I've ever been through.

  Johnny Depp

  Years, Careers, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to pen; till I was worn out with rage and malice against him, I could not bear myself.

  Joanna Southcott

  Answers, Bears, Satan

  Joanna Southcott (1813). “Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801”

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• Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Clever, Winning, People

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• The spring is here, young and beautiful as ever, and absolutely shocking in its display of reckless maternity; but the Judas treewill bloom for you on the Bosphorus if you get there in time. No one ever loved the dog-wood and Judas tree as I have done, and it is my one crown of life to be sure that I am going to take them with me to heaven to enjoy real happiness with the Virgin and them.

  Henry Adams

  Beautiful, Dog, Spring

  Henry Adams, Worthington Chauncey Ford (1969). “1892-1918”

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• The Thickety is a sinister, magical debut with a marvelous and shocking heroine. J.A. White’s elegant writing and masterful plot kept me turning pages late into the night.

  Lisa McMann

  Writing, Night, White

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• The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be; because he shows you, by his manner, that he thinks it mere condescension in him; and that his goodness alone bestows upon you what you have no pretense to claim.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Thinking, Proud

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.312

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• Behind you swiftly the figure comes softly,
  The spot on your skin is a shocking disease.

  W. H. Auden

  Skins, Disease, Behind You

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• Very few women have become famous for being who they actually are, nuanced and imperfect. When honesty happens, it's usually couched in self-ridicule or self-help. Dunham doesn't apologize like that-she simply tells her story as if it might be interesting. The result is shocking and radical because it is utterly familiar. Not That Kind of Girl is hilarious, artful, and staggeringly intimate; I read it shivering with recognition.

  Miranda July

  Girl, Honesty, Self

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• On Girls I like being a mouthpiece for the issues I think young females face today. It’s always shocking when people question whether it’s a feminist show. How could a show about women exploring women not be? Feminism isn’t a dirty word. It’s not like we’re a deranged group who think women should take over the planet, raise our young on our own and eliminate men from the picture. Feminism is about women having all the rights that men have.

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Dirty, Men

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• Sleeping in Eden is intense and absorbing from the very first page. Written in lovely prose, two seemingly different storylines collide in a shocking conclusion.

  Heather Gudenkauf

  Sleep, Two, Eden

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• Jesus' death was seen by Jesus himself ... as the ultimate means by which God's kingdom was established. The crucifixion was the shocking answer to the prayer that God's kingdom would come on earth as in heaven.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Prayer, Mean

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• It takes no prisoners. We had to completely change wardrobe for the girls because we had summer wardrobe set and it was so frigidly cold while we were shooting. And the bug population was through the roof, that summer. It was just silly! The fact that we even survived at all is shocking. The fact that we came out of it with a movie that I really like is awe-inspiring.

  Katie Aselton

  Girl, Summer, Silly

  Source: collider.com

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• The presentation of hard core pornography, brutality and shocking language, from what I hear, is leaving the public jaded and tired of this kind of film.

  Pola Negri

  Tired, Leaving, Brutality

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• That was the shocking part. Here we were in the midst of everything and this potentially giant story was being told and virtually noone was there.

  Robert A. M. Stern

  Nfl, Giants, Stories

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• Metz's Perfection chronicles with lapidary precision one woman's climb back to happiness after not just a spouse's death, but also the shocking recognition that her life before that death was not what she had thought it was. The journey is a painful one, but Ms. Metz is much the stronger for having survived to recount it.

  Julie Powell

  Journey, Perfection, Stronger

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• Heartbroken and in tears over the shocking death of my friend, the incomparable Ms. Whitney Houston. My heartfelt condolences to Whitney's family and to all her millions of fans throughout the world. She will never be forgotten as one of the greatest voices to ever grace the earth.

  Mariah Carey

  Heartbroken, Condolences, Voice

  FaceBook post by Mariah Carey from Feb 12, 2012

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• You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.

  Florence Ellinwood Allen

  Judging, Office, Honor

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• Religions have been universal in the sense that all the people we know anything about have had a religion. But the differences among them are so great and so shocking that any common element that can be extracted is meaningless.... The older apologists for Christianity seem to have been better advised than some modern ones in condemning every religion but one as an impostor, as at bottom some kind of demon worship or at any rate a superstitious figment.

  John Dewey

  Differences, People, Atheism

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.403, Indiana University Press

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• In the face of the idea that truth might afford the opposite of satisfaction and turn out to be completely shocking to humanity at any given historical moment, ... the fathers of pragmatism made the satisfaction of the subject the criterion of truth. For such a doctrine there is no possibility of rejecting or even criticizing any species of belief that is enjoyed by its adherents.

  Max Horkheimer

  Father, Opposites, Ideas

  Max Horkheimer (2013). “Eclipse of Reason”, p.35, A&C Black

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• I felt that we couldn't win the game. It was absolutely shocking.

  Martin O'Neill

  Soccer, Football, Winning

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• For we are not all equally afflicted with the same disease or all in need of the same severe cure. This is the reason why we see different persons disciplined with different crosses. The heavenly Physician takes care of the well-being of all his patients; he gives some a milder medicine and purifies others by more shocking treatments, but he omits no one; for the whole world, without exception, is ill (Deut 32:15).

  John Calvin

  Medicine, Giving, Physicians

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.55, Baker Books

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• You may say, "Oh, no. You can't touch a traditional recipe." But we ask: why can't you? Back in 1350, a vinaigrette was a stew, so we ask, why not? This can be applied to any kind of cooking, and that's the shocking part of it. It kind of bends all the traditions. It's a good thing.

  Ferran Adria

  Cooking, Recipes, May

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• The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means that each of us is free to go our own way, even if the ways some of us may choose to go seem sinful or shocking to our fellow citizens.

  Dan Savage

  Mean, Pursuit Of Happiness, Liberty

  Dan Savage (2002). “Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America”, E P Dutton

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