{"quotes":[{"text":"By shattering my preconceptions and cultural stereotypes, what materialized was a massive personality who was astonishingly winsome yet gravely terrifying. A man whose breathtaking compassion would draw you in, but whose ferocious honesty could cut and slice like a razor. Someone who was the most controversial, confrontational, divisive, yet compellingly beautiful man who has ever lived. Which is precisely what we would expect if the Creator of the universe happened to invade our world.","author":"Timothy J. Stoner","tags":["jesus","jesus-christ","new-testament","scandal"],"id":17051,"author_id":"Timothy+J.+Stoner"},{"text":"For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam’s front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters?And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.","author":"Vera Nazarian","tags":["amiable","aspiration","common-sense","creation","deity","divinity","evil","god","good","imagination","insanity","inspiration","multiplicity","order","sanity","scandal","scandalous","world"],"id":46357,"author_id":"Vera+Nazarian"},{"text":"Even the richest of brands are robbed by poor character.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["arrogance","brand","branding","business","career","character","cockiness","company","corporation","dishonesty","distrust","ethics","genius","good-will","good-works","goodness","honesty","humility","illegal","job","kindness","lawful","legal","love","message","morality","nice","poor","pride","reputation","rich","robbery","scam","scandal","scheme","shady","skill","success","talent","trust","unlawful","wisdom","work"],"id":56344,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"I look at Kitty, who's braiding Chris's hair in microbraids. She's being extra quiet so we forget she's here and don't kick her out. 'I think that as long as you're ready and it's what you want to do and you're protecting yourself, then it's okay and you should do what you want to do.'Margot says, 'Society is far too caught up in shaming a woman for enjoying sex and applauding a man. I mean, all of the comments are about how Lara Jean is a slut, but nobody's saying anything about Peter, and he's right there with her. It's a ridiculous double standard.","author":"Jenny Han","tags":["double-standards","feminism","scandal","slut-shaming"],"id":73176,"author_id":"Jenny+Han"},{"text":"While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["art","artists","arts-and-humanities","books","classics","creativity","dark-humor","literature","novels","sad-but-true","scandal","tragedy","writers"],"id":108345,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"Yes, she was a scandal.Her brother simply didn’t know it.“I fell in the Serpentine today.”“Yes, well, that doesn’t usually happen to women in London. But it’s not so much of a scandal as it is a challenge.","author":"Sarah MacLean","tags":["family","humor","love","scandal"],"id":112245,"author_id":"Sarah+MacLean"},{"text":"I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me yet.","author":"Diana Rigg","tags":["good","me","scandal "],"id":128800,"author_id":"Diana+Rigg"},{"text":"Whoever wants to hide a big scandal is best to stage a small one.","author":"Friedrich Dürrenmatt","tags":["politics","scandal"],"id":152873,"author_id":"Friedrich+D%C3%BCrrenmatt"},{"text":"People never believe anything - except scandal - when they first heart it.","author":"Kenneth Roberts","tags":["belief","scandal"],"id":158193,"author_id":"Kenneth+Roberts"},{"text":"The scandal with the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea is how it managed to obtain a construction permit to build a manned telescope in a known biologically toxic environment to workers. How many more people need to die, get injured or develop long term very high altitude sickness that will last a lifetime?","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["altitude","atop","biologically","build","construction","develop","die","environment","high","injured","kea","known","last","lifetime","long","managed","manned","mauna","meter","obtain","people","permit","scandal","sickness","telescope","term","thirty","tmt","toxic","very","workers"],"id":166978,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}