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  • But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or feet performed, and if he did nothing at all, heard and saw nothing, the shouting of some triumphant inner voice that shocked him and cowed him.

    Light   Self   Hands  
    Patricia Highsmith (2001). “Strangers on a Train”, p.190, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.

    Real   Thinking   People  
  • In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that.

    Heart   Knack   Lines  
  • I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.

    Singers   Plastic   Pops  
    "Lady Gaga: Plastic Surgery Is 'Promoting Insecurity'". Interview with Derek Blasberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2011.
  • She stood, squared her shoulders. “We’ll do it. Together.” And then she did something that shocked them both. She rose on her tiptoes and pressed a swift kiss on his lips. “Thank you for returning to help me.” When she tried to move away, he latched onto her forearms and held her in place. His eyes were gleaming. "Next time you decide to do that…" What?" she said, stiffening. "Give you a little warning?" No." He grinned. "Linger.

    Moving   Eye   Kissing  
    Gena Showalter (2017). “Gena Showalter Intertwined Complete Collection: Intertwined\Unraveled\Twisted”, p.206, Harlequin
  • She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd felt before. She had so little experience with genuine anger that it scared her. She actually worried that if she started screaming, she'd never stop.

  • I am the girl who everyone said was never going anywhere. I guess I shocked a few people.

    Girl   People   Said  
  • I just started to see the world as it really is and it completely shocked me and changed my opinion on everything.. on life and my values and certainly my own sense of self.

    Change   Self   World  
  • Again, your challenge is not just to improve. It is to break the service paradigm in your industry or market so that customers aren't just satisfied, they're so shocked that they tell strangers on the street how good you are.

  • When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that would hold him to his mortal life. Otherwise he would've dissolved. I had seen Annabeth, and I had a feeling he had too. He had pictured that scene Hestia showed me—of himself in the good old days with Thalia and Annabeth, when he promised they would be a family. Hurting Annabeth in battle had shocked him into remembering that promise. It had allowed his mortal conscience to take over again, and defeat Kronos. His weak spot—his Achilles heel—had saved us all

    Hurt   Rivers   Focus  
  • The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.

    Sight   Names   People  
    Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.290, Simon and Schuster
  • If you're an editor at TIME magazine or writer at TIME magazine and you are shocked to look at real documented research that says men and women are different - what in the world did you believe beforehand?

    Real   Believe   Men  
    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • I was shocked to find out that only 50 percent of women do not engage with makeup and the reasons are: They don't know how to use it, they don't know what suits them, they don't have the time.

    Makeup   Use   Suits  
    Source: www.glamour.com
  • I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a glass building, but it's in my mind about getting older and finding out what I'm going to look like as it unfolds - or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land.

  • Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn't. You can't unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom and then be shocked when Halliburton overcharges for everything from towels to gas, when Parsons' sub, sub, sub-contractor builds a police academy where the pipes drip raw sewage on the heads of army cadets and where Blackwater investigates itself and finds it acted honorably. That's just corporations doing what they do and Iraq is a privatized war zone so that's what you get. Build a frontier, you get cowboys and robber barons.

    War   Army   Cowboy  
    "The Real Blackwater Scandal: Build a Frontier, You Get Cowboys". Interview with John Cusack, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2010.
  • I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly even noticed.

    Men   Culture   Shocked  
    "Lay off men, Lessing tells feminists" by Fiachra Gibbons, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2001.
  • I look back at my adolescence, and Im shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

    Ideas   Adults   Looks  
  • Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.

    Girl   Mother   Wisdom  
  • Bill said, "She is mine." I wondered if my hands would move. They would. I raised both of them, making an unmistakable one-fingered gesture. Eric laughed, and Bill said "Sookie!" in shocked admonishment. "I think that Sookie is telling us she belongs to herself," Eric said softly.

    Moving   Thinking   Hands  
    Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.742, Penguin
  • The one place I've seen something really come together is in editing. Sometimes you can save pieces in a way that you're really shocked.

  • Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that were offenses against any criteria of taste and decency, reels and reels of perversion and blasphemy that stunned my disbelieving eyes, the shocked my virginal mind, and sealed my valve.

    Eye   Abortion   Mind  
    John Kennedy Toole (1980). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.55, Dubois Publishing
  • I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people.

    People   Decision   Made  
    "Kick-Ass Actor's Fiancée Defends Their 24-Year Age Gap" by Tim Nudd, people.com. April 27, 2010.
  • When he (Roger Clemens) threw the bat (during Game 2 of the 2000 World Series), I basically walked out and kept asking him what his problem was. He really had no response. I was trying to figure out whether it was intentional or not. I was going to ask him. If it was, then obviously he really no had response. I was more shocked and confused than anything.

    Confused   Games   Trying  
  • My mother did movies from the New Wave, but I was quite shocked I didn't know much about that period. Bernado showed us film of the demonstrations of the time.

    Mother   Film   Wave  
  • I'm always shocked when actors have diva-esque behavior.

    Source: variety.com
  • Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.

    Jesus   Opposites   Joy  
  • There’s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that you’re alive. It’s almost like we’re mad because we’ve been shocked out of our usual comatose state of being by feeling something for someone, for ourselves, for just a moment.

    Mad   Feelings   Usual  
    Ana Castillo (2008). “Loverboys”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company
  • I'm frankly shocked that Hollywood hasn't called me to do a superhero.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I'm shocked at being recognized. You go to places you don't think you would be and still, you are. Taxi drivers often recognise me... but I haven't got a free ride yet.

  • I've seen an awful lot of plays that I'd read before they were put into production and been shocked by what's happened to them. In the attempt to make them straightforward and commercially successful, a lot of things go out the window.

    Successful   Play   Awful  
    Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.49, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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