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«I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.»
Author: Kate Chopin
(Author, Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
defenseless, editors, flattery, guise, newspaper, professional, readers, secrets, shocked, surprised
«It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.»
Author: Noel Coward
(Actor, Composer, Playwright)
| Keywords:
and how, deceit, deceits, discouraging, honesty, shocked
«If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.»
«I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
| Keywords:
dogmas, mastered, one of them, religions, several, shocked
«I think I've far exceeded what I ever thought I could possibly do. I'm almost shocked that I'm still around after all of these years . . . and always grateful that I get another turn to do something.»
«Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Comedy,
Funny,
Language,
Travel
| Keywords:
abroad, Americans, American language, despite, discover, foreign, foreign language, foreign languages, for the first time, languages, progress, shocked, spoken language, The Last, travel
«I tell you what, I was so shocked because I didn't think the ball had enough to get out. It's an absolutely incredible feeling. I can honestly say I did it.»
«Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I never was when I was not one»
«I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.»
«I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
annual, examination, gravitational, nurse, recently, Seven Years, shocked, weighed
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