#shocking

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

A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#increase #make #most #painting #probably

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily. ↗

— Alexander Chase

#daily #occurrence #occurs #shocking

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

I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line. ↗

— Roman Polanski

#cut #dirty #head #his #how

The economic and social decline of Zimbabwe is shocking and appalling. Life there is unrecognisable from that of the recent past. Each day is a struggle for basic survival. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#basic #day #decline #each #economic

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