#shocking

I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old. ↗

— Joan Collins

#add #i #i think #leave #reading

It's really hard when a celebrity dies out of nowhere, 'cause it's very shocking... surreal. ↗

— Ashley Tisdale

#celebrity #dies #hard #nowhere #out

People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#anywhere #could #go #near #people

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#dead #disturbs #novelty #originality #repels

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

The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#behavior #christians #cruel #dissenters #even

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