Quotes with shocking

  • A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.
  • A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

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  • Tacitus A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Alexander Chase A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.
    Alexander Chase
    American journalist and editor (1926 - )
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I never guess. It is a shocking habit - destructive to the logical faculty.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Cole Porter In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.
    Cole Porter
    American composer and songwriter (1891 - 1964)
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  • André Agassi It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.
    André Agassi
    American tennis player (1970 - )
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  • Bill Condon Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Susan Sontag Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Quentin Crisp Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn t?
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Betsy Beers On 'Scandal,' they've proven that they're not scared of shocking the audience.
    Betsy Beers
    American television and film producer (1957 - )
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  • Caitlin Doughty One of the things that was most shocking to me about starting to work in the funeral industry is just how industrial the environment is.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • E. B. White Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Bhante Henepola Gunaratana Somewhere in this process, you will come face to face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your mind is a shrieking, gibbering madhouse on wheels barreling pell-mell down the hill, utterly out of control and helpless. No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way, and you just never noticed.... So don't let this realization unsettle you. It is a milestone actually, a sign of real progress.
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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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  • Carol P. Christ The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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