#shocking

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 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

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

Pop is in a shocking state at the moment. ↗

— Charlie Simpson

#pop #shocking #state

That the Iraqi Government is considering a political deal granting amnesty to insurgents who have attacked or killed American service members is not just shocking - the idea of amnesty for insurgents is an outrage. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#amnesty #attacked #considering #deal #government

Just start somewhere," Dr. Marshall had said to me as I ground a banana-pineapple one to bits between my teeth. "It doesn't have to be at the beginning." She'd pulled her legs up, Indian-style, letting the legal pad she'd been holding drop to the floor. "I thought everything always had to start at the beginning," I said. "Not in this room," she said easily. "Go ahead, Caitlin. Just tell me one thing. It gets easier, I promise. The first thing is always the hardest." I looked down at my hands, stained mildly red from the particularly sticky watermelon Rancher. "Okay," I said, reaching forward to take another one out of the bowl, just in case. She was already sitting back in her chair, readying herself for whatever glimpse I would give her into the mess I'd become. "What was the name of Pygmalion's sister?" She blinked, twice, obviously surprised. "Ummm," she said, keeping her eyes on me. "I don't know." "Rogerson did," I told her. "Rogerson knew everything. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#depression #inspirational #quote #realationship #shocking

Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be on that kind of media juggernaut. It was a big thing and the scrutiny was shocking. ↗

— Miranda Otto

#big #big thing #how #just #kind

With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing them in the waste-paper basket. Matilda froze in horror. The father kept going. There seemed little doubt that the man felt some kind of jealousy. How dare she, he seemed to be saying with each rip of a page, how dare she enjoy reading books when he couldn't? How dare she? ↗

— Roald Dahl

#intelligent #matilda #roald-dahl #shocking #inspirational

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#ago #found #fundamentals #got #grammar