#surprise

While the wealthiest families completely benefit from the tax cuts targeted towards the upper brackets, middle-income families were hit with the unwelcome surprise of higher taxes on tax day. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#brackets #completely #cuts #day #families

I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time. ↗

— John Dyer

#colour #colours #combined #every #every time

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. ↗

— Alice Walker

#live #nothing #surprise

If you can sustain your interest in what you’re doing, you’re an extremely fortunate person. What you see very frequently in people’s professional lives, and perhaps in their emotional life as well, is that they lose interest in the third act. You sort of get tired, and indifferent, and, sometimes, defensive. And you kind of lose your capacity for astonishment — and that’s a great loss, because the world is a very astonishing place. What I feel fortunate about is that I’m still astonished, that things still amaze me. And I think that that’s the great benefit of being in the arts, where the possibility for learning never disappears, where you basically have to admit you never learn it. ↗

— Milton Glaser

#curiousity #learning #life #surprise #art

It was like we had known all along that the sky was going to fall and then it fell and we pretended to be surprised. ↗

— Elin Hilderbrand

#surprise #love

Passion surprises. One doesn't search it. It can happen to you tomorrow. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

#passion #search #surprises #tomorrow #you

People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#ever #everyone #know #never #nobody

The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze. ↗

— Adele

#always #appearance #been #booze #care

And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan. ↗

— Gianni Agnelli

#expressed #foreign #foreign policy #generosity #i

Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me. ↗

— Moustapha Akkad

#being #beside #duty #felt #following