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It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Barack Obama

Religion, Bitter, Guns

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
Baltasar Gracian

Person, Off, Show

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.
Barack Obama

Wife, Fact, Fame

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
Sydney J. Harris

Life, Yourself, Feelings

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
James Madison

Confidence, Union, Religious

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Long, Thoughts, After

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

Nothing, Few, Governed

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.
Christopher Hitchens

Christmas, Friends, Holiday

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
Bill Watterson

Work, Hard, Done

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.
Tom Hiddleston

Yourself, Mind, Keep

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
Doug Larson

Young, Old, Become

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
Jean Cocteau

True, Seeing, Habit

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.
Brian Eno

Knowledge, Sometimes, Knew

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
Alan Rickman

Future, Wonderful, Unknown

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

Respect, Himself, Worthless

El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
Dan Quayle

Single, Democracy, Here

Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
Garrett Hardin

Power, Political, Sometimes

The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.
Christopher Meloni

Share, Finding, Inner

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
Plautus

Life, Men, Death

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

Positive, Art, Political

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

Games, Obvious, Objective

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

Might, Order, Drama

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

Experience, Simple, Important

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

Life, Today, Tomorrow

I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
Daniel Craig

Else, Idea, Anyone

I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive.
Colin Firth

Find, Place, Worst

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

Power, Greatest, Give

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

Time, Good, Mistakes

I rarely come away from presenting the 'Today' programme without some sense of regret. There is always some question that I should have asked, or some point that I should have made. This is annoying but not surprising. Perfection is hard to achieve in a three-hour live programme.
Evan Davis

Today, Live, Hard

It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.
Julie Burchill

Live, Acting, Choose

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