#shock

'Marnie' was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#adult #adult life #ahead #childhood #discuss

It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#find #out #people #really #shocking

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#austere #between #chastity #christianity #close

Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it. ↗

— Brian Eno

#almost #am #build #capable #future

I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#correctness #i #out #political #political correctness

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#interest #persons #shock #us #who

When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely. ↗

— Roger Federer

#came #did #dreams #ever #i

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it. ↗

— Will Durst

#debris #disaster #find #history #humor

It's shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven't got a car yet. ↗

— Tom Felton

#car #cinema #got #haven #i

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply. ↗

— Billy Graham

#death #deeply #how #hurts #loved