Definition of Surprising

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Definition of Surprising
	Surprising of Surprise Exciting surprise; extraordinary; of a nature to excite wonder and astonishment; as, surprising bravery; a surprising escape from danger. Related Definitions: And, As, Astonishment, Bravery, Danger, Escape, Excite, Exciting, Extraordinary, From, Nature, Of, Surprise, Surprising, To, Wonder

Surprising Quotations

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

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

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
James Madison

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

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

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.
Ken Kesey

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

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

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

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
Barbara Kingsolver

Surprising Translations

surprising in Dutch is verrassend
surprising in Italian is strano, sorprendente
surprising in Portuguese is surpreender
surprising in Spanish is estupendo

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