#shocking

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #condemned #conventions #fact #human

There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#bad #eyes #fresh #get #seen

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#faculty #guess #habit #i #logical

When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#big #did #i #interviews #look

What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die - that's that. ↗

— Laura Linney

#blown #die #fall #go #iraq

I felt like a dork growing up so this is shocking. ↗

— Christina Milian

#felt #growing #growing up #i #like

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#commandment #done #every #express #god

I spend shockingly little time thinking about real-world stuff. ↗

— Trey Parker

#i #little #little time #real-world #shockingly

We live in a world where sort of nothing is shocking anymore. ↗

— Nikki Reed

#live #nothing #shocking #sort #where

Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008. ↗

— Larry J. Sabato

#combined #donated #every #prior #shockingly