Appalled Quotes

#1. I am appalled by the notion of cultural wars.

Jim Leach

#2. She'd once been appalled to hear of women claiming PMS as a defense for murder. Now she understood. She could happily murder someone today! In fact, she felt like there should be some sort of recognition for her remarkable strength of character that she didn't.

Liane Moriarty

#3. A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there's some people that find it very comforting. There are others that are appalled by it.

Alan Moore

#4. The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.

Sydney J. Harris

#5. Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. That is why I am appalled when the federal government gets between my patients and their right to the full range of medical information and complete access to health care.

Ami Bera

#6. I think Gypsy [Rose Lee] would be appalled at today's rawer, more blatant displays of the female form. She was, in her own way, a prude.

Karen Abbott

#7. A month or two before, I would have been appalled at the idea of any murder at all. But that Sunday afternoon, as I actually stood watching one, it seemed the easiest thing in the world.

Donna Tartt

#8. He leaned back, appalled at himself. She was a ***damn dose of truth serum. Things were falling out of his mouth as though his ability to sensor had short-circuited.

Laura Spinella

#9. My mother's view on love appalled me. It suggested love had more in common with the boiling of an egg than the discovery of another person from whom one couldn't bear to live apart

Rachel Joyce

#10. It has always appalled me that really bright scientists almost all work in
the most competitive fields, the ones in which they are making the least
difference. In other words, if they were hit by a truck, the same
discovery would be made by somebody else about 10 minutes later.

Aubrey De Grey

#11. I am furious at the way that we have allowed money to subvert our democracy. I am appalled at the way that the U.S., a very wealthy nation, permits and even encourages a level of poverty that other wealthy nations would not even consider.

Alex Gibney

#12. I am both stunned and appalled that Pat Robertson would claim to know the mind of God concerning whether particular events ... were the judgments of God.

Richard Land

#13. I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder. I was appalled by defense attorneys who would do anything to win an acquittal for a guilty person.

Dominick Dunne

#14. From: Christian Grey
Subject: Shenaniwhatagans?
Date: June 15, 2011 09:32
To: Anastasia Steele
You don't have to work, Anastasia.
You have no idea how appalled I am at my shenanigans.
But I like keeping you up late ;)
Please use your blackberry.
Oh, and marry me, please.

E.L. James

#15. I'm shocked and appalled that you would dare to suggest I might not be completely original and unique in every way. I'll have you know that I'm a very special snowflake, Ms. Cavanaugh. There's no one like me anywhere in the world. I know, because I checked.

Louisa Edwards

#16. I am not gadgety at all. It's not that I'm appalled by technology, but I've taken my time acquiring any of it.

Rhys Ifans

#17. I do not," I felt oddly appalled by her statement. "I'm an excellent liar. Ask my dentist. He swears I floss regularly.

Darynda Jones

#18. The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.

Robert Blair

#19. When they meet a stand-up comic, people sometimes remark: 'That must be the hardest job in the world.' Among comedians, only Freddie Starr is not embarrassed and slightly appalled by this remark.

Arthur Smith

#20. It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.

John Coleman

#21. I do not regard myself as a Christian politician. I regard myself as a politician who just happens to think religion matters. I would be appalled, absolutely appalled, to think religion drove anyone's politics in a secular democracy like ours.

Tony Abbott

#22. Vegetarians may be appalled, but much of gardening is actually raising animals: the tiny ones under the earth's surface

Toby Hemenway

#23. I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive.

Grace Slick

#24. Ten years ago, I still feared loss enough to abandon myself in order to keep things stable. I'd smile when I was sad, pretend to like people who appalled me. What I now know is that losses aren't cataclysmic if they teach the heart and soul their natural cycle of breaking and healing.

Martha Beck

#25. I'm appalled that when I talk about the neo-conservatives it's somehow twisted, some sort of a racist comment.

Lee Whitnum

#26. We are now paying the cost of people who move jobs overseas as taxpayers, and people are appalled when they hear that.

Debbie Stabenow

#27. That table is mahogany!" cried Roderick Morgenstern, looking appalled.

Cassandra Clare

#28. Kestrel's cruel calculation appalled her. This was part of what had made her resist the military: the fact that she could make decisions like this, that she did have a mind for strategy, that people could be so easily become pieces in a game she was determined to win ...

Marie Rutkoski

#29. Usually when I see myself in a film or on television, there's about a six-month period where I can't look at it because all I'll see are the mistakes. I'm just appalled by the person that I see.

Tim Daly

#30. I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the slightest idea of what is being done in their name, they would be utterly appalled.

Noam Chomsky

#31. It's a philosophical minefield!
Cabal had a brief mental image of Aristotle walking halfway across an open field before unexpectedly disappearing in a fireball. Descartes and Nietzsche looked on appalled. He pulled himself together.

Jonathan L. Howard

#32. I am often appalled by those who make history, but inspired by those who do not." -Morgana le Fey/Morgana Cornwall

J.M. Briggs

#33. I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.

Conrad Veidt

#34. I'm appalled that the word 'feminism' has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture. It isn't about us and them.

Annie Lennox

#35. I am not afraid of death threats, but I am appalled that so many people are capable of so much wrong spelling and fractured grammar!

Miriam

#36. If someone was to tally the number of human hours wasted in business by people trying to accomplish objectives without being given the authority to do so, we would all be appalled.

Laurie Beth Jones

#37. Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?

Erica Jong

#38. What I saw appalled me. I felt my hair rise like bristles on the back of my neck, and my heart seemed to stand still.

Bram Stoker

#39. Not every visitor was enchanted. William Morris, the future designer and aesthete, then aged seventeen, was so appalled by what he saw as the exhibition's lack of taste and veneration of excess that he staggered from the building and was sick in the bushes.

Bill Bryson

#40. Modelling opened up the world to me. All my friends were bohemian artists and were a little bit appalled when I sold out and did something so bourgeois. I'd say, 'Come on, guys, with what I earn from this job, we can all go to Morocco.'

Christie Brinkley

#41. If the baby needs a bed," George offered, "Simon and I could keep him in our sock drawer."
Simon gave George an appalled glare. George looked distressed.

Cassandra Clare

#42. There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Thomas A. Edison

#43. Since the moment I laid eyes on Jericho Barrons, I wanted him. I wanted him to do things to me that pink and clueless MacKayla Lane was shocked and appalled and ... okay, yeah, well, utterly fascinated to find herself thinking about.

Karen Marie Moning

#44. Jenni Fagan is the real thing, and The Panopticon is a real treat: maturely alive to the pains of maturing, and cleverly amused as well as appalled by what it finds in the world.

Andrew Motion

#45. Because, if I'm honest, people in the white world might be appalled, but in the black world, they're making myths out of me. And I know that ain't the life.

John Singleton

#46. I think the way NOW characterized Smith Barney is disgraceful. I am appalled that an organization like that would not have reserved judgment (until) making their own investigation.

Jamie Dimon

#47. The incident does not mean that most Japanese were not appalled by Aum. It does suggest that many young adults viewed their society as so corrupt and hypocritical that any degree of mockery, if not violence against it, was justified.

Robert Jay Lifton

#48. The more I learned about the use of pesticides, the more appalled I became. I realized that here was the material for a book. What I discovered was that everything which meant most to me as a naturalist was being threatened, and that nothing I could do would be more important.

Rachel Carson

#49. Her mother would be appalled, but she wouldn't say anything. She would just telegraph her distress with tightened lips and raised brows. She was good at that. Clemmie's mother's brows were better than sign language, complicated concepts conveyed with the minimum of movement.

Lauren Willig

#50. We seem to live in an age where we are quietly appalled by the idea of appetites, whether they be for sex, food or diamonds.

Jojo Moyes

#51. Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.

William Butler Yeats

#52. I had always been appalled by the variation of the gospel of prosperity

Sunday Adelaja

#53. I guess, then, that is what I find troublesome about this plan. It is too logical, too clever, too carefully thought out, and, most important of all, it has to be carried out in secret, which means that if the American public knew about it, they would be appalled and would not be supportive of it.

J.W. Amran

#54. A man may not fear to die, and yet be appalled by the form in which death comes to him.

Rafael Sabatini

#55. Stained upon my hands, the blood of innocents brands my soul with such a crime forgiveness gapes appalled.

Michael J. Sullivan

#56. Aren't you going to rape me?" I demanded a little put out that the thought hadn't even crossed his mind. "What? Do you want me to rape you?" He asked sounding more appalled than before. Good for him; this was a single guy at the end of the world with standards.

Rachel Higginson

#57. We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals we disseminate widely in our environment?

Rachel Carson

#58. I had never seen such sorrow; it appalled me. And I was even more appalled by her attempts to overcome it, because they so plainly, pathetically failed and in failing opened up a view of the world I had only begun to suspect, where wounds did not heal, and things did not work out for the best

Tobias Wolff

#59. Alice said once that she'd never been appalled by anything. Elisabeth said that was appalling.

Liane Moriarty

#60. F a special geometry has to be invented in order to account for a falling apple, even Newton might be appalled at the complications which would ensue when really difficult problems are tackled.

Oliver Lodge

#61. It was through the Second World War that most of us suddenlyappreciated for the first time the power of man's concentrated efforts to understand and control the forces of nature.We were appalled by what we saw.

Vannevar Bush

#62. But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than the sound of the tides, and with which we should be appalled to find ourselves condemned to live.

Marcel Proust

#63. Messrs. Washington and Lincoln would be appalled and saddened by what their successor, President Obama, and the modern Democratic Party are doing to the nation they dedicated their lives to keep alive.

Monica Crowley

#64. killed in a way I didn't think I ever could. I'm appalled at what I can do. I don't enjoy this." "If you enjoyed it, Jacen, you would not be the one destined to become the Sith Lord." The

Karen Traviss

#65. She hadn't dreamed a time would ever come when someone might want to emulate her talk or behavior. Consequently, it made her feel tight and strange inside to hear her words on the kid's lips. A small part of her was astonished and secretly flattered. But a larger part was appalled.

Maggie Osborne

#66. People are mean to you? Why don't you just punch them in the face?" Meryn asked. Adelaide looked at her appalled. Colton chuckled.

Alanea Alder

#67. As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me.

Bertrand Russell

#68. History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses.

Michael P. Naughton

#69. I don't know whether to be proud or appalled that danger, blood and death inspire you so.

Samantha Young

#70. I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.

Jarvis Cocker

#71. Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought of what social conditions would be if reverence for God were erased from every heart.

William Jennings Bryan

#72. Phineas leaped to his feet, giving Vanda a appalled look. "Vanda! Why'd you do it?"
"What?" Vanda stood.
Phineas slapped a hand against his brow. "you can't attack these people jut because you hate Naruto!

Kerrelyn Sparks

#73. Go down on you? Are you kidding me? In two years, you can count the times on one hand?" Lucas looked appalled. "He had the sweetest pussy in all creation right next to him all that time and he didn't spend his days and nights buried in it?

Melanie Harlow

#74. But I am just as appalled that my experience, knowledge, dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the anthrax killer.

Steven Hatfill

#75. I went from rotary phone to Twitter. And was appalled at the notion.

Jeff Perry

#76. As I go across the country and privately visit women's shelters and counselling centres, I am appalled that the most vulnerable people in our society are still women.

Adrienne Clarkson

#77. Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization, I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'

Dian Fossey

#78. I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways.

Jo Brand

#79. The part of [Oscar] Wilde was exceptionally important to me; the man, his achievements, his wisdom, but his downfall, his disgrace and the tragic and bitter end to it have always fascinated, appalled and attracted me since childhood. It was he who first in some measure vindicated my sexuality.

Stephen Fry

#80. I'm a director, but I gotta have the hair, the makeup and the heels. My mother would be appalled if I didn't dress up.

Nicole Holofcener

#81. Really?" Catherine didn't look at all appalled. "What was it like to wear trousers in public?"
"Quite ... liberating, actually."
"I daresay, I think we wear far too many layers of clothes."
"I agree," both men said at once.
Olivia and Catherine giggled like young girls.

Lorraine Heath

#82. I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.

C.P. Snow

#83. The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.

Helmut Newton

#84. I have no doubt that President George W. Bush - a man, in my experience, of extremely kind and generous instincts, and back in Austin even a rescuer of stray animals - would be appalled by the conditions of a typical American factory farm or packing plant.

Matthew Scully

#85. we enjoy the peace we find today because people in past generations were appalled by the violence in their time and worked to reduce it, and so we should work to reduce the violence that remains in our time.

Steven Pinker

#86. Because her general taste appalled him, it annoyed him that he himself constituted one of her favorites. It was an anomaly which he had never been able to take apart.

Philip K. Dick

#87. It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons; I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.

Sloane Crosley

#88. He was appalled at the ease with which the truth so easily turned into something that was almost a lie, just by being positioned correctly. He

Terry Pratchett

#89. Why are people who are appalled at insider trading so quick to trade on inside information when it comes their way?

Jonathan Clements

#90. Maybe we'll have vampire prom."
He shot me an appalled look. "What is this, Twilight?

Veronica Wolff

#91. More shouts, and then my father was there, staring down at me in horror: the minor pagan god, appalled at what his worshiper had done.

Marie Brennan

#92. A Muzak version of 'Imagine' comes on and John Lennon wakes up in his tomb, appalled.

David Mitchell

#93. I'm appalled at how many people my age, or even five or ten years younger, have no tangible memories of important history that happened when we were growing up.

Jello Biafra

#94. Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?

Norman Cousins

#95. Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

Mary Wollstonecraft

#96. I had to promise to look him up if I was ever in the City of Angels." She winked to Uncle Bob. "He liked my voice." "Mom," Amber said, utterly appalled. "You used your feminine wiles on a man you don't even know." Cookie smiled. "That's what they're for, honey. Eat your salad.

Darynda Jones

#97. What appalled Schiller about these libraries was that they featured nothing off the beaten track: no tattered paperbacks; no evidence of distinctive personal interests; no tokens of long intellectual detours passionately explored.

Brian Morton

#98. What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the front of the book was all commentary and that he wanted hard news.

Sydney Schanberg

#99. He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#100. I am appalled by the great injustice being perpetrated by those Jewish organizations that engage in anti-Christian bigotry.

Daniel Lapin