#surprising

I always thought, because America is supposed to be the land of the free, nudity would be part of the norm over there, but it isn't. It's surprising. ↗

— Mark Roberts

#america #because #free #i #i always

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#drama #might #only #order #surprising

Finally, I have to say that the most surprising aspect has been the speed at which the folks in India adapt to Western practices. They learn fast, really, really fast. ↗

— Sanjay Kumar

#aspect #been #fast #finally #folks

I like to do things that are surprising and different. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#i #like #surprising #things

Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#cost #effective #leadership #look #low

It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#arafat #began #decade #disposal #fan

Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#could #day #due #encounter #entirely

A lot of people have been quite surprised with the stuff that I'm doing on my own, which shocks me because I've always known what I wanted to do. But people have only seen me with the Spice Girls, so I suppose it's not that surprising. ↗

— Melanie Chisholm

#because #been #doing #i #known

I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that. It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me. ↗

— Phil Collins

#happen #hardly #hate #honestly #i

Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes. ↗

— Joe Conason

#agenda #billion #bush #bush tax cuts #coming