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Shock Quotes (page 19)

Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart. H. G. Wells
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system. Flannery O'Connor
No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day. Charlotte Bronte
I don't wish to inhabit the world under false pretences. I'm relieved to have discovered my identity after being so confused about it for so many years. Why should people be afraid if I confide in them? Yet people will always be afraid and jealous of those who finally establish their identity; it leads them to consider their own, to seclude it, cosset it, for fear it may be borrowed or interfered with, and when they are in the act of protecting it they suffer the shock of realising that their... Janet Frame
E. W. Howe quote: "Most people have seen worse things in private than they..."
Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public. E. W. Howe
Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust. Kazuo Ishiguro
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true... Thomas Paine
Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view. William F. Buckley, Jr.
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "It must be quite a shock to suddenly find out you're pregnant,..."
It must be quite a shock to suddenly find out you're pregnant, seventeen times over—at your age, too. Lois McMaster Bujold
You know? we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "'My God, my God? ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade. Kurt Vonnegut
Well, that is all the notes and there is not much else in the paper of any importance. I never take much interest in foreign parts. Who's this Archduke man who has been murdered?"What does it matter to us?" asked Miss Cornelia, unaware of the hideous answer to her question, which destiny was even then preparing. "Someone is always murdering or being murdered in those Balkan States. It's their normal condition and I don't really think that our papers ought to publish such shocking things. L. M. Montgomery
Charles Darwin quote: "I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume..."
I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone. Charles Darwin
And here is the shocking plot twist: as farmers produced those extra calories, the food industry figured out how to get them into the bodies of people who didn't really want to eat 700 more calories a day. Barbara Kingsolver
Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living. Many of us Christians have become extremely skillful in arranging our lives so as to admit the truthof Christianity without being embarrassed by its implications. Aiden Wilson Tozer
The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more. Susan Sontag

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