Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Tags: #Surprise, #Example, #Common, #RalphWaldoEmerson, #American, #PoetMini who’s who: Ralph Waldo Emerson : American Poet Born: May 25, 1803 Died: April 27,...
Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won – and was sent to New York City to compete nationally. — Donna Rice Tags: #City, #Surprise, #Pageant, #DonnaRice, #American,...
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. — Joseph Addison Tags: #Soul, #Curiosity,...
The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here. — Ted Cruz Tags: #Surprise, #Single, #Senate, #TedCruz, #American, #PoliticianMini who’s who: Ted Cruz : American Politician Born: December 22,...
Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as ‘the bizarre’. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else. — Mary Ritter Beard Tags: #Surprise, #Meet, #Nobody, #MaryRitterBeard, #American,...