#shocking

Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India's baby girls. Some 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month in India. ↗

— Elizabeth Vargas

#baby #calls #country #elimination #every

With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing them in the waste-paper basket. Matilda froze in horror. The father kept going. There seemed little doubt that the man felt some kind of jealousy. How dare she, he seemed to be saying with each rip of a page, how dare she enjoy reading books when he couldn't? How dare she? ↗

— Roald Dahl

#intelligent #matilda #roald-dahl #shocking #inspirational

One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#come #fact #hey #humans #kind

It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#find #out #people #really #shocking

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#how #i #i am #impertinent #insolent

I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking. ↗

— John Dyer

#canvas #directly #enjoy #fresh #i

It's shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven't got a car yet. ↗