#shocked

Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#gave #had #i #made #me

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#attracted #both #christian #love #love affair

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#austere #between #chastity #christianity #close

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#haven #mechanics #profoundly #quantum #quantum mechanics

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#discover #give #hearing #liberals #offended

When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely. ↗

— Roger Federer

#came #did #dreams #ever #i

It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd but he didn't have human feeling. ↗

— Jung Chang

#constantly #could #evil #excitement #feeling

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan. ↗

— Geraldine Ferraro

#did #fast #how #peace #plan

I saw what Purple meant to people and I still hear it now when I'm in Europe. I'm always shocked that I'm still asked about Purple because it was such a long time ago. ↗

— David Coverdale

#ago #always #asked #because #europe

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#become #gotten #kind #less #might