#shock

Pilate's skeptical sneer "What is truth?" was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three words; God's profoundest answer was one Word. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christ #christianity #god #jesus #jesus-christ

I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets. ↗

— Todd Tiahrt

#attitude #easy #i #i am #many

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

#dead #disturbs #novelty #originality #repels

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#gifts #must #point #receiver #shock

That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one. ↗

— David Bowie

#cliches #god #hell #i #life

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#century #conflicts #depression #disgraced #dozen

No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn't find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do. ↗

— George W. Bush

#angry #every #every time #feeling #find

I've been on shows that go for shock value. ↗

— Daphne Zuniga

#go #i #shock #shows #value

Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices. ↗

— Fred Upton

#arrogance #common #common sense #display #listening

I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#am #back #because #better #collins