#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

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

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

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