#shock

It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it. ↗

— Camilla Belle

#cast #crew #embrace #felt #had

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#gifts #must #point #receiver #shock

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christianity #jesus-shock #philosophy #pleasure

That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one. ↗

— David Bowie

#cliches #god #hell #i #life

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#century #conflicts #depression #disgraced #dozen

No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn't find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do. ↗

— George W. Bush

#angry #every #every time #feeling #find

It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service. ↗

— Neil Cavuto

#bad #become #get #good #sad

I am, as a European, absolutely shocked by European people. I am also shocked by European nationalist people. They have allowed themselves to be so emasculated so silently. ↗

— Ernst Zundel

#allowed #also #am #european #i

I've been on shows that go for shock value. ↗

— Daphne Zuniga

#go #i #shock #shows #value

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#defenseless #editors #flattery #giving #guise