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shocking
«It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.»
«In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.»
«I'm extremely honest, and I pride myself on it. I don't try to be shocking. I'm playful, and I know when something I'm saying is maybe shocking, but it's just the truth, I never wanted to be scary to people or upsetting to people. I simply want to live the way I need to live.»
«I'm sure everyone in this room has been told a joke about that subject. I have many times and I've laughed, even though they are horrifying and shocking. . . . I think there's no boundary at all, whether it's that subject or another.»
Author: Billy Connolly
(Actor)
| Keywords:
boundary, horrified, horrify, horrifying, laughed, shocking
«It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.»
Author: Frank Herbert
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
and how, carries, Learning to, lesson, shocking
«Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
| About:
Lies
| Keywords:
altruistically, basic, block, blocking, block out, building, building block, but then, good manners, manners, mildly, moralist, mutual, of course, shocking
«Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
devoted, embarrassing, formerly, lowering, modern art, morals, shocking, threshold, thresholds
«A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.»
Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus
| Keywords:
acquiescence, initiative, passive, shocking, unscrupulous