Top 33 Quotes About Being Shocked
#1. No one has the right to live without being shocked.
Philip Pullman
#2. It hadn't shocked the old woman, not much. She had got past being shocked early in life.
Sherwood Anderson
#3. The day I will stop being shocked by human behaviour, is the day I will know that the last bit of my heart purity is lost forever.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#4. Daemon had written: "What do you do when she asks a question no man would give a child an answer to?"
Saetan had replied: "Hope you're obliging enough to answer it for me. However, if you're backed into a corner, refer her to me. I've become accustomed to being shocked.
Anne Bishop
#5. I think that it can be assumed that no adults are ever really 'shocked' - that being shocked is always a pose.
Thornton Wilder
#6. I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns.
John Sexton
#7. I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.
Iain Banks
#8. You do care a little for me, I know ... but nothing to speak of, and you don't love me. I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now ... and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness.
E. M. Forster
#9. But if there are many of these ruffians,' said Merry, 'it will certainly mean fighting. You won't rescue Lotho, or the Shire, just by being shocked and sad, my dear Frodo.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#10. You know, most people trust people until the person does something to prove that they're not trustworthy. Can you try that?"
"Not a chance. That is like trying potentially poisonous food and being shocked while you take your last breath.
Emma McCoy
#11. Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.
G.K. Chesterton
#12. We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.
C.S. Lewis
#13. Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.
Margaret Atwood
#14. To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#15. Now her life was under attack, and she [Kit] was shocked to find how fragile everything she'd built really was. She was dumbfounded, too to find that while people were being ripped from her life like paper dolls from a chain, she longed to be the one who'd be gone first.
Vicki Pettersson
#16. Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.
Holly Near
#17. I'm kind of shocked any time somebody hires me and even more shocked any time somebody hires me to play a character like Lex Luthor, which I only knew from the public consciousness of him being a bald, brooding villain who is older than me.
Jesse Eisenberg
#18. Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away.
Flannery O'Connor
#19. Ree-" Grey barked into the icy silence. "Lax!"
The word spat so unexpectedly into her ear had precisely the effect Grey must have intended. It shocked Nan for a split second into a state of not-thinking, just being-
Suddenly, all in an instant she and Neville were one.
Mercedes Lackey
#20. He didn't say anything and I thought I'd shocked him, because I tend to do that. Not just with Michael but with pretty much anyone who can't deal with being honest and admitting that you have wants and needs and desires and all those other fun things.
Sarra Manning
#21. Then she declared loudly, "Smoke break!" and everyone's eyes came to us, some of them shocked seeing as these days you could light up a doobie and no one would blink but if you lit up a smoke, you courted being publicly stoned to death.
Kristen Ashley
#22. Angus skidded to a stop and lifted his jaw as if sensing he was being watched. He looked in her direction and instantly covered his manhood as his eyes caught Jane's shocked face in the tree limbs. "Oh, lassie."
"Oh, naked man," Jane teased before she could stop herself.
Michelle M. Pillow
#23. Where I'm just sort of shocked into the revelation, once again, of this planet is a living organism; this living thing, being alive, is a living thing. It's every breath you take. That was the last one. It'll never come back. You are riding on this wave of awareness, second to second to second.
Daphne Zuniga
#24. Getting shocked was a badge of honor for Woz. He prided himself on being a hardware engineer, which meant
Walter Isaacson
#25. People always seem quite shocked by the cruelty that's happening in America's schools. I'm baffled by their shock, and I'm concerned about what's not being addressed in their proposed solutions.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#26. I look at him more than a little shocked by his words knowing how much he likes being right being in charge most people do.
Alyson Noel
#27. In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that.
Rufus Wainwright
#29. The amount of meetings I've been in - people would be shocked. But that's how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow.
Tiger Woods
#30. We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
Alan Greenspan
#31. I'm shocked at being recognized. You go to places you don't think you would be and still, you are. Taxi drivers often recognise me ... but I haven't got a free ride yet.
Dan Stevens
#32. I know I'm being judged, and anyone who works in the public eye will get some negativity at some point. It can be tough and it hurts. I can be very tough on myself. Occasionally, I hear or read something cruel and I'm shocked.
Deborra-Lee Furness
#33. I've been shocked by film actors - 25 and under - having such confidence and cockiness to rewrite a scene. My background is more about the director being in control. It's all about yielding. It's an oddly submissive relationship in which you're moulded, Pygmalion-style.
Anne-Marie Duff
