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What happened in Russia after October 1917 had caught Lenin and his Bolsheviks by surprise. – Robert Service	added by anonymous 2 months ago
[A]ccording to the modeling that we’ve very carefully done with them, the Ukrainians are in a good position, they have some weaknesses that I prefer not to talk about in public … But we are confident — in terms of their surprise and things like that. of course, we’ve worked on all that with them. – Christopher Cavoli	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I don’t remember a single Florida delegation meeting he attended, we had lunch once a month, just casually to just catch up. I’m not sure he ever attended a single one. He was not a team player. It doesn’t surprise me that he doesn’t have much loyalty in the delegation. – David Jolly	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In general, the response is actual surprise, it’s ‘Wow! I had no idea!’. – Toyota Dan Hommes	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Our current thinking is that it is best for parents to share the story of donor conception with their children at a very early age, so that if I were to ask their child when they are an adult when they learned that they were donor conceived, they would respond that they ‘ always knew, ’ this allows the child to grow up with the information, as opposed to learning it later in life, when it comes as a surprise or shock and can hurt their trust in their parents and their identity development. – Lauri Pasch	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I hate to say this but yesterday( Saturday) at the end of this show I was just hoping that he would n’t make the cut, that he ’d just finish one outside, not because I do n’t want to see Tiger Woods play, we always want to see Tiger Woods play, but you could just see Tiger Woods was in agony trying to get around there and it was n’t a surprise at all to be honest that Tiger Woods had to withdraw. – Sky Sports	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They will want not only to surprise the Russians with the time and location of their main and supporting thrusts, but will want to generate an operational tempo that overwhelms the Russian ability to respond quickly or at the right time with the right force. – Mick Ryan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Imagine my surprise when a couple of months later I discovered I was pregnant, i leave knowing I was the best mother I could be. You can be that person, and you can be here. – Jacinda Ardern	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The collapse of our previous partner caught everyone by surprise but, in conjunction with Miami-Dade County, we worked efficiently and incredibly quickly to fill our naming rights vacancy with Kaseya. – Eric Woolworth	Found on CNN 1 year ago
That report did not surprise me in terms of the content, because it’s been known for some time that infertility is much more prevalent than anyone wants to think about: Having a child and having a family is kind of a universal dream or aspiration for people from every country, from every region. What surprised me was the World Health Organization coming out in support of it, it was a welcome acknowledgment of the other foot dropping on the population front. – David Keefe	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Asteroids are not expected to contain significant amounts of ice, so detecting any trace of water would have been a real surprise. – Cyrielle Opitom	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This was a needle-in-a-haystack search with no guarantee that the needle exists, finding a change that could be clearly confirmed as real was absolutely a surprise. We were pretty certain that Venus is volcanically active, but we didn’t know if eruptions occur every few months, years, once every 10,000 years, or longer. All options could have fit with existing data. Unless we got incredibly lucky, we now know the frequency is every few months or so, similar to the family of Earth’s big basaltic intraplate volcanoes like Hawaii, the Galapagos Islands, Canary Islands, etc. – Venus Herrick	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Given how warm February was, there is a risk of another upside surprise in the jobs data like there was in January with the gain of 517,000, even as the Bureau of Labor Statistics tries to correct for the seasonal noise, even if there is a healthy downward revision to the January estimate, it will require another month at least for the noise in the data to be corrected and the true pace of hiring to be understood. – Joe Brusuelas	Found on CNN 1 year ago
People are really shocked and disgusted, even longtime staffers. You would think after all we’ve been through nothing could surprise us. But this is unprecedented. – Fox News	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I am very confident that, first the investigations I think are going to produce truth, and that truth might come as a surprise to Congressman Santos but not anyone else, and leadership and constituents in his district on Long Island have had enough. I don’t see a scenario where he runs for reelection or, quite frankly, completes his term. – Marc Molinaro	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’ve had low vaccination rates for MMR in our community for years, but we’ve never had a measles outbreak like we have now. So it did take us by surprise. – Mysheika Roberts	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He came to the same country that he fought alongside, and to his surprise he was singled out and treated as a criminal. Is this how America treats its allies and those who sacrificed alongside Americans in Afghanistan? my service for the military should have been valued. My brother’s service to the military should have been valued. – Sami Safi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Another month and another effort from DHS to hinder transparency with the American people. It’s no surprise we get our most important information from DHS on a Friday after dark, the Southwest border is an unmitigated disaster and these monthly encounter numbers from DHS prove just that. – Mark Green	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The breach of the Capitol was a surprise to every single Oath Keeper that day. – Angela Halim	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There’s no path to the nomination without winning the evangelical vote. Nobody knows that better than President Trump because, to the surprise of almost everyone, he won their support in 2016, he’s going to get a very fair hearing from voters of faith. But this will be a contested primary with a lot of pro-life candidates and all of them will get to make their case. – Ralph Reed	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The big surprise for a lot of people might be that the market has a really boring year, it would be a great change of pace. A plain, boring, vanilla year in the housing market would be a wonderful surprise. – Jeff Tucker	Found on CNN 1 year ago
My reaction is that it's not all that big a surprise, except of course when it comes to Southwest. That mess represents the biggest airline computer meltdown I've ever seen. This issue sits solidly with Southwest. Not sure the Secretary can really do much to help at thispoint. – Rob Mark	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It is no surprise that Congressman-elect Santos has enemies at the New York Times who are attempting to smear his good name with these defamatory allegations. As Winston Churchill famously stated, ‘You have enemies? Good. It means that you’ve stood up for something, sometime in you life,'. – Joseph Murray	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
George Santos represents the kind of progress than the Left is so threatened by – a gay, Latino, first generation American and Republican who won a Biden district in overwhelming fashion by showing everyday voters that there is a better option than the broken promises and failed policies of the Democratic Party. After four years in the public eye, and on the verge of being sworn in as a member of the Republican led 118th Congress, the New York Times launches this shotgun blast of attacks, it is no surprise that Congressman-elect Santos has enemies at the New York Times who are attempting to smear his good name with these defamatory allegations. As Winston Churchill famously stated, ‘You have enemies? Good. It means that you’ve stood up for something, sometime in you life,'. – George Santos	Found on FOX News 1 year ago

What happened in Russia after October 1917 had caught Lenin and his Bolsheviks by surprise.

– Robert Service

added by anonymous
2 months ago

[A]ccording to the modeling that we’ve very carefully done with them, the Ukrainians are in a good position, they have some weaknesses that I prefer not to talk about in public … But we are confident — in terms of their surprise and things like that. of course, we’ve worked on all that with them.

– Christopher Cavoli

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I don’t remember a single Florida delegation meeting he attended, we had lunch once a month, just casually to just catch up. I’m not sure he ever attended a single one. He was not a team player. It doesn’t surprise me that he doesn’t have much loyalty in the delegation.

– David Jolly

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In general, the response is actual surprise, it’s ‘Wow! I had no idea!’.

– Toyota Dan Hommes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our current thinking is that it is best for parents to share the story of donor conception with their children at a very early age, so that if I were to ask their child when they are an adult when they learned that they were donor conceived, they would respond that they ‘ always knew, ’ this allows the child to grow up with the information, as opposed to learning it later in life, when it comes as a surprise or shock and can hurt their trust in their parents and their identity development.

– Lauri Pasch

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I hate to say this but yesterday( Saturday) at the end of this show I was just hoping that he would n’t make the cut, that he ’d just finish one outside, not because I do n’t want to see Tiger Woods play, we always want to see Tiger Woods play, but you could just see Tiger Woods was in agony trying to get around there and it was n’t a surprise at all to be honest that Tiger Woods had to withdraw.

– Sky Sports

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They will want not only to surprise the Russians with the time and location of their main and supporting thrusts, but will want to generate an operational tempo that overwhelms the Russian ability to respond quickly or at the right time with the right force.

– Mick Ryan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Imagine my surprise when a couple of months later I discovered I was pregnant, i leave knowing I was the best mother I could be. You can be that person, and you can be here.

– Jacinda Ardern

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The collapse of our previous partner caught everyone by surprise but, in conjunction with Miami-Dade County, we worked efficiently and incredibly quickly to fill our naming rights vacancy with Kaseya.

– Eric Woolworth

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That report did not surprise me in terms of the content, because it’s been known for some time that infertility is much more prevalent than anyone wants to think about: Having a child and having a family is kind of a universal dream or aspiration for people from every country, from every region. What surprised me was the World Health Organization coming out in support of it, it was a welcome acknowledgment of the other foot dropping on the population front.

– David Keefe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Asteroids are not expected to contain significant amounts of ice, so detecting any trace of water would have been a real surprise.

– Cyrielle Opitom

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This was a needle-in-a-haystack search with no guarantee that the needle exists, finding a change that could be clearly confirmed as real was absolutely a surprise. We were pretty certain that Venus is volcanically active, but we didn’t know if eruptions occur every few months, years, once every 10,000 years, or longer. All options could have fit with existing data. Unless we got incredibly lucky, we now know the frequency is every few months or so, similar to the family of Earth’s big basaltic intraplate volcanoes like Hawaii, the Galapagos Islands, Canary Islands, etc.

– Venus Herrick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Given how warm February was, there is a risk of another upside surprise in the jobs data like there was in January with the gain of 517,000, even as the Bureau of Labor Statistics tries to correct for the seasonal noise, even if there is a healthy downward revision to the January estimate, it will require another month at least for the noise in the data to be corrected and the true pace of hiring to be understood.

– Joe Brusuelas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People are really shocked and disgusted, even longtime staffers. You would think after all we’ve been through nothing could surprise us. But this is unprecedented.

– Fox News

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am very confident that, first the investigations I think are going to produce truth, and that truth might come as a surprise to Congressman Santos but not anyone else, and leadership and constituents in his district on Long Island have had enough. I don’t see a scenario where he runs for reelection or, quite frankly, completes his term.

– Marc Molinaro

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’ve had low vaccination rates for MMR in our community for years, but we’ve never had a measles outbreak like we have now. So it did take us by surprise.

– Mysheika Roberts

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He came to the same country that he fought alongside, and to his surprise he was singled out and treated as a criminal. Is this how America treats its allies and those who sacrificed alongside Americans in Afghanistan? my service for the military should have been valued. My brother’s service to the military should have been valued.

– Sami Safi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Another month and another effort from DHS to hinder transparency with the American people. It’s no surprise we get our most important information from DHS on a Friday after dark, the Southwest border is an unmitigated disaster and these monthly encounter numbers from DHS prove just that.

– Mark Green

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The breach of the Capitol was a surprise to every single Oath Keeper that day.

– Angela Halim

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s no path to the nomination without winning the evangelical vote. Nobody knows that better than President Trump because, to the surprise of almost everyone, he won their support in 2016, he’s going to get a very fair hearing from voters of faith. But this will be a contested primary with a lot of pro-life candidates and all of them will get to make their case.

– Ralph Reed

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The big surprise for a lot of people might be that the market has a really boring year, it would be a great change of pace. A plain, boring, vanilla year in the housing market would be a wonderful surprise.

– Jeff Tucker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My reaction is that it's not all that big a surprise, except of course when it comes to Southwest. That mess represents the biggest airline computer meltdown I've ever seen. This issue sits solidly with Southwest. Not sure the Secretary can really do much to help at thispoint.

– Rob Mark

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It is no surprise that Congressman-elect Santos has enemies at the New York Times who are attempting to smear his good name with these defamatory allegations. As Winston Churchill famously stated, ‘You have enemies? Good. It means that you’ve stood up for something, sometime in you life,'.

– Joseph Murray

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

George Santos represents the kind of progress than the Left is so threatened by – a gay, Latino, first generation American and Republican who won a Biden district in overwhelming fashion by showing everyday voters that there is a better option than the broken promises and failed policies of the Democratic Party. After four years in the public eye, and on the verge of being sworn in as a member of the Republican led 118th Congress, the New York Times launches this shotgun blast of attacks, it is no surprise that Congressman-elect Santos has enemies at the New York Times who are attempting to smear his good name with these defamatory allegations. As Winston Churchill famously stated, ‘You have enemies? Good. It means that you’ve stood up for something, sometime in you life,'.

– George Santos

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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