#shock

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Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.


Elihu Root


#century #cruelty #degrading #lower #lower animals

In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events.


Georg Simmel


#any #change #conservative #contrast #could

They were just kind of simultaneous - the film ending and the sets being destroyed. I was struck the first time I saw the Great Hall become a big pile of burning rubble and getting scattered around. It's really quite shocking for the fans.


Rupert Grint


#become #being #big #burning #destroyed

And I went through a lot of detours and I took a lot of roads and things so yes, that's all there, but it's not meant to be shocking or telltale.


Kim Novak


#i #lot #meant #meant to be #roads

When all of a sudden, people say, 'Wow, you look nice,' and carry on, it's shocking. Really awkward.


Nikki Cox


#carry #look #nice #people #people say

When I grow up I want to be an old woman.


Michelle Shocked


#getting-old #getting-older #michelle-shocked #old-woman #age

Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era's declension as a place where "bizarreness masqueraded as creativity.


Edward Gibbon


#creativity #shock #art

I was appalled and shocked that Bush used the State of the Union to attack same-sex marriages and indicated that he would support a constitutional amendment.


Jean O'Leary


#appalled #attack #bush #constitutional #constitutional amendment

There's nothing you could say that would shock me.


Laura Prepon


#me #nothing #say #shock #would

At the beginning of each year, we have conceptual meetings. How are we going to challenge ourselves this year? So we suggested a transsexual or transgender. And to be honest, I am shocked they let us do it.


Jai Rodriguez


#beginning #challenge #conceptual #each #going