#shock

In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#enormous #find #goes #hands #haze

I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can't afford serious shocks right now. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#also #because #create #down #down the road

As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair. ↗

— Lauren Graham

#because #chair #conservative #day #different

My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#against #any #childhood #crouch #dad

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#because #being #capable #i #i am

I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock. ↗

— David Bailey

#going #i #know #live #shock

It's not like he called me up and asked me. They've never wanted to throw us into that world, and I think our decision probably shocked them. But I love my dad, and I think I'd regret it if I didn't do this. ↗

— Jenna Bush

#called #dad #decision #i #i love

I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me. ↗

— Ed Rollins

#been #decades #even #i #less

I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#any #happened #i #kind #sept

Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era's declension as a place where "bizarreness masqueraded as creativity. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#creativity #shock #art