#surprising

One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#man #respect #surprising #things #world

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few. ↗

— David Hume

#governed #many #more #nothing #surprising

By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#any #art #civilization #contemporary #contemporary art

Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve McMahon and Republicans like Rich Galen urging their presidential candidates to be more, well, positive. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#candidates #consultants #dark #democrats #hear

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France! ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#antoinette #arrival #book #books #childhood

Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table. ↗

— Ina Garten

#arrangement #bunch #does #down #florist

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence. ↗

— James Madison

#confidence #religious #sentiments #surprising #union

The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#entertain people #experiences #games #new #objective

What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#communists #fought #here #people #surprising

So it's possible that someday, by understanding a little bit more about how the world works, it will come back to help us in some other way that will be surprising. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#back #bit #come #help #how