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

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

One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.
Melanie Klein

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

Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks.
Martin Gore

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

Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.
Bradley Whitford

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

Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.
Larry Wall

Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races.
Ellsworth Huntington

That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising.
Charles Scott Sherrington

That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it.
Jon Postel

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

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

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

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

The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about.
Diane Cilento

The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.
John M. Ford

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

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