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Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Man
Wife
Every
Mother-In-Law
Proud
Surprised
Behind
Successful
Successful Man
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
Thomas Sowell
Work
Political
Find
About
Fact
Concentrated
Ideas
Institutions
Most
Surprised
Left
Survive
Where
Order
To Survive
Should
Therefore
Fundamental
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Thomas Hardy
Time
Change
Changes
Everything
Something
Except
Within
Always
Surprised
Time Changes
Which
Us
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
James Baldwin
People
Treat
Other
Waters
Back
Must
Cast
Poisoned
Surprised
Than
Human
Bread
Them
Less
Who
Floating
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Denis Waitley
Best
Worst
Surprised
Expect
Plan
Prepare
I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.
Kim Kardashian
Love
Me
People
Become
Pleasantly
Underestimate
Surprised
Then
One of the illusions that we live by is that we can really know anybody else, and we're often surprised by traits in people that we thought we knew very well. The struggle to overcome loneliness, which is sort of our universal burden, leads us to leap to conclusions about who other people are.
Thomas McGuane
Loneliness
Struggle
People
Overcome
Burden
Thought
Live
Other
Else
Our
About
Knew
Leads
Know
Leap
Well
Sort
Conclusions
Surprised
Very
Traits
Often
Anybody
Anybody Else
Which
Us
Really
Who
Illusions
Universal
Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.
Brooke Shields
Best
Good
Adversity
Character
You
Rest
Blindly
Move On
Else
Pleasantly
Someone
Take
Make
Reveals
Said
Builds
Surprised
Persevere
Get
Move
Just
Realizing
Choice
Rid
Resilience
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
Charles de Gaulle
Politics
Word
Politician
Says
Never
He
Taken
Since
Surprised
His
Quite
Believes
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
George Will
You
Pessimist
Nice
Pleasantly
Constantly
About
Part
Proven
Surprised
Being
Either
Right
The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
Voltaire
Wife
Husband
Himself
Surprise
Surprised
His
Very
Often
Decide
Much
Who
Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.
Charles M. Schwab
Life
You
Happy
Will
Happy Life
Everyone
Kindly
About
Lead
Make
Surprised
Friendly
Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
Desmond Tutu
Forgiveness
Angry
Man
Revenge
Before
Young
Military
Everyone
Relatively
Released
Nelson
Nelson Mandela
Reconciliation
About
Wing
He
Talking
Because
Arrested
Surprised
Mandela
Young Man
Founded
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Desmond Tutu
God
People
Soft Spot
Find
Spot
Surprised
His
Sinners
Quite
May
Heaven
Low
Standards
Soft
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
Gracie Allen
Half
Year
Born
Talk
Surprised
Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
Jim Rohn
You
People
Better
Easier
Promised
More
Said
Understated
Surprised
Overstated
Than
I have lots of friends, but I'm probably a terrible friend to all of them, even my family. I wouldn't be surprised if I found myself with no friends later on in life. My friends become my enemies.
Ariel Pink
Life
Myself
Family
Enemies
No Friends
Become
Later
Terrible
Surprised
Lots
Friend
Friends
Them
Even
Found
Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
W. H. Davies
Alone
Man
Heroic
Else
Innocently
Saw
Soldier
Say
Mood
Hunter
Fine
Seems
Something
Something Else
He
Road
Spoke
Him
Course
Boy
Answered
Sailor
Surprised
Hear
Up
Very
Expected
Going
Childhood
Being
Grew
Little
Much
Asking
Whom
Playing
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!
Dolly Parton
You
Costs
Cheap
Look
How
How Much
Surprised
Much
I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.
Hunter S. Thompson
Generation
First
Country
Worse
Embarrassed
Shape
Part
Am
Leave
Came
Surprised
Than
American
Far
I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.
Larry David
Sometimes
Some
Misinterpreted
How
Surprised
Actions
When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle's wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance... and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.
Pope Francis
Girl
Uncle
Beauty
Met
Wedding
Over
Well
Surprised
Intellectual
Quite
Quite A While
While
Her
Brilliance
There is something so mean and unmanly in the arts of dissimulation and falsehood that I am surprised they can be used by anyone in so noble, so generous a passion as virtuous love.
Robert Burns
Love
Passion
Virtuous
Something
Noble
Generous
Am
Surprised
Falsehood
Arts
Anyone
Mean
Used
People like to know you're listening, and something as simple as a clarification question shows not only that you are listening but that you also care about what they're saying. You'll be surprised how much respect and appreciation you gain just by asking good questions.
Travis Bradberry
Saying
Good
You
Appreciation
Respect
People
Simple
Listening
Care
Clarification
About
Something
Only
Like
Know
Also
How
How Much
Surprised
Question
Questions
Just
Gain
Much
Asking
Shows
Just get a bag and drop a dream in it, and you'll be surprised what happens.
Charles Nelson Reilly
You
Drop
Dream
Bag
Surprised
Get
Just
Happens
I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.
George Michael
Own
My Own
Surprised
Survived
Dysfunction
Really
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