If I had known when I was twenty-one that I should be as happy as I am now, I should have been sincerely shocked. They promised me wormwood and the funeral raven. —Christopher Isherwood More about this quote Tags: age youth death shock Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public. —Edgar Watson Howe More about this quote Tags: shock private Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public. —Edgar Watson Howe More about this quote Tags: privacy shock etiquette propriety Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. —Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. More about this quote Tags: time age shock getting old Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically — for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist — but then what isn't? —Quentin Crisp More about this quote Tags: truth shock manners lying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Betty Williams, a 1977 Nobel Peace Prize laureate from Northern Ireland, once witnessed the bombing death of Irish children, and a little girl died in Williams's arms. The girl's legs had been severed in the explosion and thrown across the street from where the woman held the bleeding child. Williams went home in shock and despair. Later, the full impact of what she'd seen jolted her awake. She stepped outside, screaming out in the middle of the night. She knocked on doors that might easily have opened with weapons pointed at her face and cried, "What kind of people have we become that we would allow children to be killed on our streets?" Within four hours the city was awake and there were sixteen thousand names on petitions for peace. —Linda Hogan More about this quote Tags: peace weapons children bombs death shock despair Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust. —Kazuo Ishiguro in Never Let Me Go More about this quote Tags: time shock aloneness social encounters Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email