I was so used to pretending to be something I wasn’t, it shocked me to be seen for what I was.
– Kim van Alkemade
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- Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often. – Mae West
- All those practice fights when it was just us, two children pretending to be soldiers. Or two soldiers pretending to be children. – Sara Raasch
- pretending to be good might be the same with pretending to be right, its just you are selfish on your own because you think only for yourself.. – Jinnul Jr
- Pretending to him that she felt something would be easy. Pretending to herself that she didn’t? That was a whole other story. – Brynn Kelly
- The lights flickered, the pain went away, and her mother was holding her, singing -˜Sleep sweet sleep’. (The Children of Ankh series) Kim Cormack – Kim Cormack
- I can’t wait to get back to writing today so I can see what happens next Kim Cormack – Kim Cormack
- You must not grieve that the world is glimpsed through veils. How else can it be seen? – Suji Kwock Kim
- Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it. – Niels Bohr
- If you got on your knees to give thanks for the undeserved kindness and mercy in your life, you would be shocked by how rich you truly are. – Mensah Oteh
- Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views. – William F Buckley Jr
- The Scottish sun, shocked by having its usual cloudy underpinnings stripped away, shone feverishly, embarrassed by its nakedness. – Stuart Haddon
- Look son, the Human Pig.(shocked)Mother, y-you’re inhuman!(deadpan)Another animal could do this? – Larry Gonick
- If some people came into contact with anything real they would be shocked out of their minds. – Bryant McGill
- Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at. – John Wyndham
- Shocked my old friend from China, Deja Vu, when I turned up at his door without notice. – Nikhil Sharda
- Doors close. That’s life, but they don’t necessarily have to hit my nose, and leave me hanging and shocked every time they do. – Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
- The real satire starts when I’m shockingly mocked,not mockingly shocked. – Munia Khan
- If you are drawn to the left hand path, it’s usually because you’ve had some kind of life experience that has shocked you, awakened you. – Nikolas Schreck
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- If my phrases shock the reader, that only shows it is high time he or she was shocked. – HG Wells
- She stared at Raven in a long second of shocked silence, before sagging to the floor. – A Ashley Straker
- It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. – Nol Coward
- Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I never was when I was not one. – Margaret Atwood
- I froze, shocked. (And don’t try to claim that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.) – Brandon Sanderson
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- He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him. – Henry Van Dyke
- The full length of a frog doesn’t have to be seen when it’s dead. It has to be seen when it jumps. Aim for greater heights always. – Constance Chuks Friday
- Don’t base reality on what you have seen when you have seen very little. – Scott Sigler
- I have seen the best in you, I have seen the worst in you and I am yet to see a lot in you. – Pushpa Rana
- Faith is evidence unseen and never seen, trust is gained from evidence seen and understood. – Gary J Spaulding
- Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike. – Thomas Hardy
- Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. – Benjamin Disraeli
- Just as a star can’t be seen behind a cloud, you can never shine and be seen behind the clouding of your insecurities. – Dr Jacinta Mpalyenkana
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- That was a double negative, Jemail. By saying that you haven’t seen nobody, you’re actually saying that you have seen somebody. – Michael Monroe
- It’s as if he’s trodden in my footsteps, seen what I’ve seen, felt what I’ve felt, as I’ve criss-crossed the moors countless times. – Sanjida Kay
- If you haven’t seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven’t seen her smile her prettiest. – Kin Hubbard