Quotes with shocked

  • Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
  • But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.
  • Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.

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  • Bertolt Brecht A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Avi Arad But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I love to hold people's hands when I visit hospitals, even though they are shocked because they haven't experienced anything like it before, but to me it is a normal thing to do.
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  • Iain Banks I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.
    Iain Banks
    Scottish author (1954 - 2013)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people’s hands, people used to be shocked because they’d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.
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  • Burt Rutan I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their conclusions in summary graphs that were used to prove their various theories about planet warming. In fact I began to smell something really bad, and the worse that smell got, the deeper I looked.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
    The Abolition of Man (1943)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Noël Coward It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
    Noël Coward
    British writer (1899 - 1973)
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  • Peace Pilgrim Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. And when you live it people may think you're crazy. It has been truthfully said that the world is equally shocked by one who repudiates Christianity as by one who practices it.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Pearl S. Buck Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Anne Stevenson Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • W. H. Auden The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Aldous Huxley The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Callie Khouri The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • Horace The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Carl Sandburg There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.
    In Reckless Ecstasy (1904)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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