#shocking

I can't say I'm happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Entertainment Tonight, this really was one of the most shocking and sad things to have happened. ↗

— Mary Hart

#entertainment #happened #happy #his #i

The naked thing was short-lived. It was only around for about six months because we thought it was shocking. Once people expected us to do it we kind of never did it again. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#again #around #because #did #expected

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

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

— Alexander Chase

#daily #occurrence #occurs #shocking

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

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

— Nikki Reed

#live #nothing #shocking #sort #where

I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#because #controlled #criminals #get #had

Pop is in a shocking state at the moment. ↗

— Charlie Simpson

#pop #shocking #state

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all. ↗

— Tacitus

#blessing #committed #crime #few #individuals

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