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Compared with the Autumn, when I was voting for an increase in Bank Rate, the fall in oil prices has certainly provided some unexpected breathing space. It is, however, at present no more than that. – Wednesday Weale	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This extreme brightness was really unexpected. – Carol Raymond	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The speech from Graham Moore for 'The Imitation Game' was a standout, unexpected, moving moments like that make the Oscars worth watching. – Glenn Selig	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I used to run and play football, and the change to ill-health was a slow deterioration where I gradually felt more tired, and it became hard even to walk by the end, every third day I went to [the] hospital to drain fluid out of my belly. The transplantation was unexpected, but I didn’t worry. I knew I was in good hands. – Bartolomej Pesta	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We have to remember that travel, like every other industry, has its cycles of mergers, start-ups, consolidations and new entries, this was n’t unexpected. On the whole, I think this is just an expression of where we are in the cycle, and the impact to the consumer will not be too immediate. – Donna Quadri-Felitti	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's not unexpected that she's not ready to come off (the ventilator). It's just that in our best case scenario (we thought) maybe we could've hoped to get her off (Sunday) afternoon, whenever they put a patient on a ventilator they're looking at a 50-50 chance of getting them off breathing on their own. The smoke ventilation cases are often the hardest to manage off the ventilator. – Daniel Carey	Found on CNN 9 years ago
What's unusual is that, normally, these decisions are signed, sealed and delivered before Christmas, but circumstances have changed at a number of firms this year, if this was a movie, it would be 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'—there was a death that was totally unexpected. – Richard Stein	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
All the things that come together to ensure that people do connect were all there -- it was a natural disaster (as opposed to a man-made humanitarian crisis), it was enormous, completely unexpected. – Jane Cocking	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It is an unexpected joy to be here today, it is a remarkable day for me and I realize an historic day for the church. – George Lane	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It was an unexpected uptake, which we never want to have, but fortunately the levels were low, well below even the threshold at which we would have been required to report the incident to the Department of Energy. – David Keim	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Messenger found so many surprising, unexpected results that we have a lot of good reasons to follow-up on what they did. – Johannes Benkhoff	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Until now the camels we have examined have proven to be negative -- and this is really very unexpected. – Tariq Madani	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness. – Elias Canetti	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected. – Arnold Bennett	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. – Leon Trotsky	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us. – Daniel J. Boorstin	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence. – Hannah Arendt	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected. – Joseph Addison	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Which death is preferably to every other? The unexpected. – Julius Caesar	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living. – Booker T. Washington	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 11 years ago
There is nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a great one. Poverty treads upon the heels of great and unexpected riches. – La Bruy?re	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance. – Demosthenes	added by anonymous 12 years ago

Compared with the Autumn, when I was voting for an increase in Bank Rate, the fall in oil prices has certainly provided some unexpected breathing space. It is, however, at present no more than that.

– Wednesday Weale

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This extreme brightness was really unexpected.

– Carol Raymond

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The speech from Graham Moore for 'The Imitation Game' was a standout, unexpected, moving moments like that make the Oscars worth watching.

– Glenn Selig

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I used to run and play football, and the change to ill-health was a slow deterioration where I gradually felt more tired, and it became hard even to walk by the end, every third day I went to [the] hospital to drain fluid out of my belly. The transplantation was unexpected, but I didn’t worry. I knew I was in good hands.

– Bartolomej Pesta

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We have to remember that travel, like every other industry, has its cycles of mergers, start-ups, consolidations and new entries, this was n’t unexpected. On the whole, I think this is just an expression of where we are in the cycle, and the impact to the consumer will not be too immediate.

– Donna Quadri-Felitti

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's not unexpected that she's not ready to come off (the ventilator). It's just that in our best case scenario (we thought) maybe we could've hoped to get her off (Sunday) afternoon, whenever they put a patient on a ventilator they're looking at a 50-50 chance of getting them off breathing on their own. The smoke ventilation cases are often the hardest to manage off the ventilator.

– Daniel Carey

Found on CNN
9 years ago

What's unusual is that, normally, these decisions are signed, sealed and delivered before Christmas, but circumstances have changed at a number of firms this year, if this was a movie, it would be 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'—there was a death that was totally unexpected.

– Richard Stein

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

All the things that come together to ensure that people do connect were all there -- it was a natural disaster (as opposed to a man-made humanitarian crisis), it was enormous, completely unexpected.

– Jane Cocking

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It is an unexpected joy to be here today, it is a remarkable day for me and I realize an historic day for the church.

– George Lane

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It was an unexpected uptake, which we never want to have, but fortunately the levels were low, well below even the threshold at which we would have been required to report the incident to the Department of Energy.

– David Keim

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Messenger found so many surprising, unexpected results that we have a lot of good reasons to follow-up on what they did.

– Johannes Benkhoff

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Until now the camels we have examined have proven to be negative -- and this is really very unexpected.

– Tariq Madani

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

– Elias Canetti