Shocking Quotes - Page 5

• In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone mad today, and good's bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today.

  Cole Porter

  Night, White, Mad

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• You have to start with the basic premise that you need to know what your competition is doing.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Competition, Marketing, Needs

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• That we do not discover reality but rather invent it is quite shocking for many people. And the shocking part about it - according to the concept of radical constructivism - is that the only thing we can ever know about the real reality (if it even exists) is what it is not. It is only with the collapse of our constructions of reality that we first discover that the world is not the way we imagine.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Real, People, Way

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• I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.

  Jackie Collins

  Sex, Writing, Men

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• I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.

  Jackie Collins

  Book, Finishing, Males

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• I believe that the shocking toll of AIDS on gay men in the West was partly due to their Seventies delusions that a world without women was possible. All-male energies, unbalanced and ravenous, literally tore the body apart.

  Camille Paglia

  Believe, Gay, Men

  "Vamps and Tramps". Book by Camille Paglia, 1994.

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• It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Character, Self

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• The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.

  Janet Flanner

  Facts, Wreckage, Defeat

  Janet Flanner (1966). “Paris Journal: 1944-1965”

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• When you say, 'I am a Christian,' you are saying, 'I am mashiach,' in the Hebrew. I am a little messiah walking on earth, in other words. That is a shocking revelation. ...May I say it like this? You are a little god on earth running around

  Benny Hinn

  Christian, Running, Earth

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• It's shocking that so many children still live in fear as a result of violence in the home, and don't know who to turn to for help and support. As a child survivor of domestic violence I can remember the fear and isolation. I'm delighted to support the Hideout, the new Women's Aid website for children and young people. I know it could have made a real difference to me and will provide great comfort and support to thousands of children.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Children, Real, Home

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• But though such is our character (Oh. why should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?), the things said of us are an example of the proverb, 'The harlot reproves the chaste.' For those who have set up a market for fornication and established infamous resorts for the young for every kind of vile pleasure - who do not abstain even from males, males with males committing shocking abominations, outraging all the noblest and comeliest bodies in all sorts of ways, so dishonoring the fair workmanship of God.

  Athenagoras of Athens

  Christian, Character, Historical

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• There have been the most terrible, shocking events taking place in the United States of America within the last hour or so... I am afraid we can only imagine the terror and the carnage there and the many, many innocent people who will have lost their lives... It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life and we, the democracies of this world, are going to have to come together to fight it together and eradicate this evil completely from our world.

  Tony Blair

  Couple, Fighting, Our World

  Tony Blair's speech to the Trades Union Congress, September 11, 2001.

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• Frank Farrelly. . .must be thought of with respect (perhaps even delight?) by his clients who have so far played the game of therapy with their therapists, but, I am afraid, also a shocking example for those therapists who, in Laing's words, 'are playing at not playing a game'.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Games, Example, Delight

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• Shocking is easy. Shockingly brilliant, a bit more challenging.

  Lee Clow

  Challenges, Brilliant, Easy

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• Andy Harp's RETRIBUTION is a stunner:  a blow to the gut and shot of adrenaline.  Here is a novel written with authentic authority and bears shocking relevance to the dangers of today.  It reminds me of Tom Clancy at his finest. Put this novel on your must-read list-anything by Harp is now on mine.

  James Rollins

  Blow, Today, Lists

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• Part of why you love your parents is because they loved you first. Brands need to do that.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Love You, Parent, Marketing

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• The Drop's unpredictability is organic rather than sensationalistic. The movie doesn't pull surprises out of thin air for the sole purpose of shocking an audience - it lets them develop naturally.

  James Berardinelli

  Air, Purpose, Surprise

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• My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Ambition, Jeans, Size

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• He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and reverent vehicles of holy truth, I suspect that many if not all of them were originally not grave at all but were antic, comic, often more than just a little shocking.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Years, Littles

  "Drama Team Handbook". Book by Alison Siewert, 2003.

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• Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you.

  Michael Arrington

  Writing, Marketing, Stuff

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• If our planet has seen some eighty billion people it is difficult to suppose hat every individual has had his or her own repertory of gestures. Arithmetically, it is simply impossible. Without the slightest doubt, there are far fewer gestures in the world than there are individuals. That finding leads us to a shocking conclusion: a gesture is more individual than an individual. We could put it in the form of an aphorism: many people, few gestures.

  Milan Kundera

  People, Doubt, World

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• There was really nothing shocking in what Brigitte did, what was provocative was her natural sensuality.

  Roger Vadim

  Sensual, Provocative, Natural

  The Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. 1988.

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• Care about your customers more than about yourself, and you'll do well.

  Derek Sivers

  Marketing, Care, Helpful

  "Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur". Book by Derek Sivers, sivers.org. June 2011.

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• The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States. [This idea] happens to coincide with the prevailing opinion in the world. And I think that's rather shocking for Americans to hear.

  George Soros

  Thinking, Order, Ideas

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• It's very shocking for me to see pictures from my win here in 2008. I aged.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Winning

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

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