#shock

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#back #climbed #comes #gradually #heights

I was shocked at the anger toward me. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

#i #me #shocked #toward

If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us. ↗

— Jane Rule

#became #even #gay #inspire #legislation

It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star. ↗

— Belinda Carlisle

#full #i #life #lived #many

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#did #ever #first #hardly #light

I could tell by their audible gasps that the people on the beach were jealous of me when I found five shark's teeth. Locating them wasn't really the problem, but pulling them out of my leg was. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #gasps #humor #jealous #shark-s-teeth

Then Frederica went towards him, holding out her hand, and he raised his eyes from Felix’s eager countenance, and smiled at her, causing Mr. Moreton to suffer a shock. It was not at all the sort of smile with which his lordship beguiled his flirts, but something warmer and more intimate. Good God! mentally ejaculated Mr. Moreton. Sits the wind in that quarter? ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#shock #smile #marriage

I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#everyone #hate #i #image #me

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

— Alexander Chase

#daily #occurrence #occurs #shocking

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