#shock

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#arousing #boy #chamber #day #dead

It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it. ↗

— Mark Udall

#deeply #deny #despite #documentation #holocaust

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it. ↗

— Voltaire

#because #brought #cannot #colors #contrary

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. ↗

— George Washington

#appellation #before #entitled #friendship #growth

I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#came #death #directing #ford #frightened

I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid. ↗

— Olivia Wilde

#blonde #brunette #feel #how #i

It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christ #christianity #crazy #crazy-in-love #crazy-love

People would be shocked to know... that despite the nature of my TV character, I am actually a nice guy. ↗

— James Lafferty

#am #character #despite #guy #i

All of a sudden Kevin told me that the movie got bought and was gonna be shown in a movie theatre. I was shocked. I was psyched. It was just weird. ↗

— Jason Mewes

#gonna #got #i #just #kevin

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. ↗