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Quotes About Shocking

havng an affair with a man was a plunge into change, shocking irreversible change, like an amputation It was not a dip in a pool, after which one came out and dried the same body with the same hands. And as for the much touted memroes, far from treasuring them, she found them a continuing torment, which she would willingly have burned from her brain cells...Yet for this sex, good or mot so good, she had paid a steep price. Marjorie felt rifled of her own identity.
~ Herman Wouk
Dogs fucked the Pope, no fault of mine
~ Hunter S. Thompson
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~ Iain Banks
Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen. So it is a shocking experience to them that he came in to office.
~ Henry Kissinger
What I find shocking is that there's this thought process that Hillary Clinton is going to be president of the United States, and to even think of Donald Trump is a joke.
~ Steve Bannon
You have to come to full realization of just how horrible things are. And this is how horrible things are: Donald Trump is almost the President of the United States.
~ James Adomian
I am so pro-swine flu... I want it. We need a plague. It's got to happen; don't be afraid. It's only going to kill the weak.
~ Bill Burr
The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture. No one is ever "out of character." That idea just makes Frazer laugh.
~ Susan Choi
In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
There was one challenge where Murr took a guy's sock off his shoe and put it in his mouth. I couldn't believe he did that.
~ Joe Gatto
The cruelty of children is more shocking than the cruelty of adults. Not only was I shocked, I was angry. But it felt somehow wrong, unhealthy, to be so furious with a child.
~ Charlaine Harris
The way we allow children to be advertised to is shocking. Eating is a learned behavior, and we've made these kids sitting ducks for all the bad messages about industrialized food. The fact that we allow that to go on is horrifying.
~ Ruth Reichl
Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night.
~ Thomas Harris
It was a scent that lacked coyness, made no concessions to charm. Like standing on the edge of a great and terrifying cliff, it was shocking, beautiful, sublime.
~ Kathleen Tessaro
Rick, this is Faith's father, David." He couldn't drag his eyes away from David's neck. Because around it was a white collar. Jesus Christ, Faith McPherson's father was a minister!
~ Kathryn Shay
I have to say that you're the last person I'd have expected would have a seventeen-year-old daughter. You're so..." Alice stopped, suddenly looking guilty. "Dashing?" Gunner supplied. "Debonair?" "A bit of a dawg, actually.
~ Katie MacAlister
And then I went to 'Dawson's Creek ' which is a show that was, for better or for worse, all about the language. It was a word-perfect show, which I'd never had any experience with. And it was really shocking for me. I felt really hemmed in. At the time, it wasn't my favorite working experience.
~ Busy Philipps
The headless trunk was discovered impaled on a metal fencepost on the edge of the town park.
~ C.J. Box
But no, here she is. Simply shocking in her beauty and poise. She's wearing her only gown, the silvery
~ George Dawes Green
Foreigners rarely catch on to how this shocking class system operates because social interchange is polite and friendly at every level.
~ Isabel Allende
The economic and social decline of Zimbabwe is shocking and appalling. Life there is unrecognisable from that of the recent past. Each day is a struggle for basic survival.
~ Lucy Powell
I think it's a bit shocking for people when pop stars say anything out of the safe zone.
~ Jade Thirlwall
It's really shocking to see what the military can do, strip you of any personality, turn you into an aggressive, sociopathic sadist before even going into a battlefield.
~ Abby Martin
My films typically veer towards the darker side, and I enjoy turning things on the audience. I really enjoy working in genre because people come into the film with certain expectations, and they know the tropes so well that when you turn on those, it can be really shocking. There's a complaisance that comes with watching those films.
~ Ari Aster