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It's not totally unexpected on the first day of a campaign like this,

It's not unexpected that we're going to see a few more isolated cases. It's obviously unwelcome, but pretty well around the world there have been what's referred to as 'BARB' cattle. Those are born after the ruminant ban.

It probably won't happen, but there's always the possibility of unexpected consequences.

It's not profound literature, but it's an adventure story and quite a good adventure story, very unexpected coming from Brando. It tells us a lot about him.

It's an unexpected cost, and no one enjoys paying any amount of money when they don't have to. But it would be a nightmare trying to charge people different rates.

A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open

As we create new Mercury vehicles like the Milan and Mariner Hybrid, we know our customer has a real love of storytelling, ... Working with Landmark Theatres is exciting because it opens up opportunities for us in the world of independent film ... and then gives us a venue to showcase our invigorated brand in very unexpected ways.

As we disclosed in December, unexpected cutbacks by retailers and our further adjustment to a just-in-time shipping pattern negatively impacted our results.

It's so great and an unexpected pleasure to see Fred after all of these years, ... He was a miracle worker in 1974 and he's still at it over 30 years later.

As a former waitress myself, I know firsthand how a simple smile from someone can improve your day and how a single harsh word can destroy it. Being courteous and thoughtful costs you nothing and can sometimes pay you dividends in unexpected ways.

As a writer, I try to appeal to the 'elusive boy audience' the same way I try to appeal to everyone: I do the very best I can to create interesting characters, addictive plots, tons of conflict, believable settings, unexpected plot twists, intriguing beginnings, and satisfying endings.

They may take the $30 rise in the stock price as an unexpected end of quarter bonus. It helps a lot of portfolios. But in order to book that gain, they'd have to sell into the strength.

There were some unexpected challenges, but in any case our record isn't good enough.

The problem in crude oil and transportation fuel markets is that it's very volatile with the unrest in Nigeria, the uncertainty regarding Iran and continuing problems in Iraq. It just leads to unexpected prices in the crude oil market.

We expect severe price spikes over the next two years following years of underinvestment by the industry, unexpected demand shocks from China and other emerging economies, supply disruptions to existing mines and a lack of response in bringing on new supply.

We expect the stock to rally on the unexpected fuel surcharge announcement, ... Back of the envelope fuel surcharge could equate to 1 to 2 cents upside in the third quarter, 4 to 5 cents a share upside for the fourth quarter and 15 to 20 cents upside during 2001 if it were to remain in effect.

We expect the stock to rally on the unexpected fuel surcharge announcement. Back of the envelope fuel surcharge could equate to 1 to 2 cents upside in the third quarter, 4 to 5 cents a share upside for the fourth quarter and 15 to 20 cents upside during 2001 if it were to remain in effect.

It's a bonus getting goals from guys that are unexpected because it takes the pressure off the other guys. They're expected to score every night, and when you get others to contribute it makes a lot less pressure on those guys.

It was a very unexpected situation. My children and I are saddened. We don't know what the future holds now.

It's a disappointment but not unexpected by the market or any one else,

This was an unexpected finding. There is no obvious explanation.

This was a tough season, and the club, players and fans deserve better. There were some unexpected challenges, but in any case our record isn't good enough. I think we've built a foundation here for the team to make considerable strides in the future, and our achievements in the past are something I'll be proud of. But there is no denying all of the effort we put in didn't provide the results you need in this league.

We just expect him to hold strong and steal us a point. It was unexpected for him to shut them out in a shootout.

This was very good, and frankly, unexpected news. Bottom line, it was unlawful. And that's a very strong statement.

Above all, a well-imagined story is organized around extraordinary human behaviors and unexpected and startling events, which help illuminate the commonplace and the ordinary.

It shows that planet formation is really ubiquitous in the universe. It's a very robust process and can happen in all sorts of unexpected environments.

It's hard to swallow. It's a tough situation for me. It's a tough situation for my family, but it's something that happened. And especially being in the situation he was in, knowing he had cancer, knowing that unexpected day would come. ... Death is always unexpected, no matter if they put a time on (how long you have to live). I'm just blessed to be able to live out one of his goals.

It's always crazy when we play them. I told (the kids) to always expect the unexpected because it could come down to some crazy play.

This looks to be a clever and unexpected move by the Nasdaq exchange.

How on earth do people imagine we equip children for life if we never show them the sorts of issues other people encounter, if we never talk through with them how they might deal with difficulty or violence or unexpected shocks and surprises?

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

I can predict what some of you are reading this week: the story of two college dropouts who found fame and fortune building personal computers for the masses, how the company had its ups and downs and was declared about to die on many occasions. Finally, in an unexpected turn of events, the company conquers another field entirely, that of portable music players.

No matter how much you're expecting it, it's still unexpected when it comes.

Making a movie is a weird combination of planning and the absolutely unexpected.

Sometimes the unexpected happens when you don't expect a person to come up to expectations.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

I'm always interested in the unexpected and know that things, especially in show business, but in life generally, are inevitably fleeting to one extent.

Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.

Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

Pray for the best, prepare for the worst, and expect the unexpected.

If you travel as much as I do - 165,000 miles last year - you exist nowhere. You're always between heaven and earth, you're always arriving in a new place, you're always starting from the beginning - talk about origins - and you don't know quite what's going to unfold. You live in the unexpected and the inexplicable all the time.

In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.

There is a future which is predictable, programmed, scheduled, foreseeable. But there is a future, l'avenir (to come) which refers to someone who comes whose arrival is totally unexpected. For me, that is the real future. That which is totally unpredictable. The Other who comes without my being able to anticipate their arrival. So if there is a real future, beyond the other known future, it is l'avenir in that it is the coming of the Other when I am completely unable to foresee their arrival.

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.

Alessandro [Michele] has really done the impossible. He's taken this classic brand [Gucci] and really turned it completely around and taken it in a direction that was so unexpected. [Alessandro and I] met and became friends here in L.A., and then we got to know each other and he asked me to do this. It was really organic and not the way this stuff normally happens.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

...So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have we had sad and barren lives; it is just that real life is paler, duller, and contains less potential for unexpected delirium.

Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.

The best parts of any story to me are the unexpected things.

What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones.

Prepare for the unknown, unexpected and inconceivable . . . after 50 years of flying I'm still learning every time I fly.

You've got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

It's good to be unexpected with it.

Build a platform - prepare for the unexpected...you' ll know you're successful when the platform you've built serves you in unexpected ways.

When you don't know what to expect, prepare for the unexpected.

There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.

In 1964 something totally unexpected happened. I got a job I enjoyed.

It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty.

A good investor in this new world knows to always expect the unexpected.

The more opportunities we have, the more likely we are to be able to handle the unexpected.

Expect the unexpected in the kingdom of madness!

The key to a woman's heart is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time.

The expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever.

I love the unexpected and I think that's why documentary is an attractive genre to me because you don't know where it's going to go, so I tend to involve that as much as possible in the production process.

New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct.

The unexpected may annoy us, but may also wake us up.

I'm not an easy lay, Alexion” He actually smiled a real smile at her. It was charming and unexpected. "I am.

life is always bringing unexpected gifts.

Old dark sleepy pool... Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!

Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.

In terms of cinema and filmmaking, there are certainly the unexpected gifts that the actors bestow on you. Film is always a question of compromises with respect to what you originally intended.

the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.

When you're younger, it's all theoretical. It's all potential. As you get older, it becomes actual, and your life gets filled with unexpected complexity; some of it asked for, and some of it not. It becomes richer, I find.

The picture must be... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need.

Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.

As a producer, I like to bring in unexpected voices, unexpected musicians, like Watt and Joey Spampinato of NRBQ.

I've never feared the unexpected.

A lot of my work has been about the unexpected—that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time. That kind of dilemma—that push and pull—is the underlying turbulence that I bring to each of the pieces that I make.

No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.

The last three years I thought we deserved a higher seed. It's not unexpected with the state of affairs in that type of meeting.

We are to make a plan for the day, pray over that plan, and then proceed with that plan. When we are willing to regard the unexpected as God's intervention, we can flex with the new plan, recognizing it as God's plan.

It's been predictable, in the sense of 'expect the unexpected'.

It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.

I would never have ever dreamed that I would get married again and then all of a sudden you meet somebody. That's the thing about life. It can be so unexpected.

We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpected, to be-aquired reality that would fill us and make us whole.

The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.

As the audience, I always love to get to a point where, surprisingly, I find myself in a secret friendship allegiance with the characters that are unexpected.

The unexpected is always likely to happen.

Creativity is rich with unexpected possibility. Know-how is mere fragmented mechanics which lacks tradition.

Falling in love with him was completely unexpected. When you only see someone as a friend, you don’t expect anything else. There was definitely a moment when something quite magical happened and we both agree that it transformed our relationship.

There are no absolutes in relationships. You can't take anything for granted. You can count on absolutely nothing but the unexpected. You only get in trouble when you start thinking that you're some kind of exception to the rule.

It is not order only, but unexpected order, that has value.

The unexpected connection is more powerful than one that is obvious.

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.