#shock

The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christ #christianity #francis-of-assisi #jesus-shock

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#beneficial #i #i am #provide #public

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives. ↗

— William Throsby Bridges

#disenchantment #into #lives #major #minor

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

I think it can be fun to be single and date-like when you don't want a relationship. Or when you've just gotten out of a relationship, and, after get over the initial shock, your thinking, Hey, it's kind of cool being single. ↗

— Breckin Meyer

#being #cool #fun #get #gotten

In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked. ↗

— Dennis Nilsen

#clothed #dead #fully #go #got

There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music. ↗

— Paul Oakenfold

#american music #chinese #definite #developing #how

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#after #assertion #barely #come #entered

I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me. ↗

— Ed Rollins

#been #decades #even #i #less

I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#any #happened #i #kind #sept