#surprising

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#departures #find #lay #life #more

There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen's wives; there are student groups, all different types of people; the protest against the Americans' use of the Pacific for nuclear testing. ↗

— Martha Smith

#come #different #different types #fishermen #groups

I've been boxing ever since I was 16. I love surprising people who think a short, blond girl can't fight! Just because I look a certain way doesn't mean I'm weak. ↗

— Brittany Snow

#been #blond #boxing #certain #certain way

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks. ↗

— Tony Snow

#ability #authority #enterprise #every #flow

Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#been #everything #happened #me #surprising

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written. ↗

— Mark Strand

#comforts #culture #entertainment #forms #given

We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up. ↗

— Andrew Sullivan

#coming #down #fuel #going #good

It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm tempted to say that it has to do with the fuzziness it introduces. ↗

— Edward Witten

#big change #change #elementary #fuzziness #i

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#america #american #experience #fact #helped

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals. ↗

— Martha Beck

#child #heals #inner #inner child #powerful