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Unexpectedly, I'm here now, so I need to let all the U.S. marketers know that Asians are not different. We are all the same. -- Psy
PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it. -- Ambrose Bierce
Unexpectedly, a fierce sense of protectiveness comes over me. Except I fight it back because I can hardly look after myself these days. -- Melina Marchetta
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People have passed through a very dark tunnel at the end of which there was a light of freedom. Unexpectedly they passed through the prison gates and found themselves in a square. They are now free and they don't know where to go. -- Vaclav Havel
Those words are from Lynda Barry's novel 'Cruddy.' I've carried them with me for some time. There's a lot in my life I wasn't expecting. One is the realization that I stood at this pulpit and delivered a reading for my own graduation...15 years ago. Unexpectedly, I'm old. -- Jack Dorsey
No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly. -- Arthur Erickson
There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. -- Steven Levy
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly. -- Arthur Erickson
I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer. -- Jodi Rell
Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house. -- Georg Brandes
Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does. -- Frank Dane
Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets. -- Takeshi Kitano
Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present. -- Anna Freud
I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious. -- Robert Adams
I had found myself a new mission - and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly. -- James W. Black
I am always looking for ideas, whether it is in art on the street or in my world travels. It comes to me randomly and unexpectedly. -- Colleen Atwood
I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly. -- Moshe Sharett
My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time. -- Donna Tartt
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -- D. H. Lawrence
Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate. -- John Howe
I had forgotten how thrilling a snow day is until my son started school, and as much as he loves it, he swoons at the idea of a free day arriving unexpectedly, laid out like a gift. -- Susan Orlean
The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control. -- Joan D. Vinge
Shooting at Coco Chanel's apartment was an unexpectedly absorbing experience. The essence of Chanel is firmly rooted there in all of her possessions, and I truly believe that her spirit and soul still inhabit the second floor. -- Sam Taylor-Johnson
I have a website because it's an interesting tool, very - and quite unexpectedly - useful for my work. It's become an archive and a fairly complete on-line portfolio, as well as offering an opportunity to write a little. -- John Howe
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence. -- Paul Auster
After we shot the first 'Twilight,' we organized our own wrap party. We really didn't know what this was going to be. Something like that can come at you unexpectedly, and you just have to try your best to deal with it. -- Anna Kendrick
When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss. -- Margaret Mahy
Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us? -- Jamais Cascio
Er-my-nee," Ron croaked unexpectedly from between them. -- J. K. Rowling
Death, however clearly foretold, still came unexpectedly. -- Daniel Abraham
It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun. -- Robin Black
To love is to soar in the wild unexpectedly. -- Robert M. Drake
I am having a very difficult time. Things happen unexpectedly. -- Koki Hirota
This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly. -- Joseph Stalin
The hour of happiness which comes unexpectedly is the happiest. -- Horace
Nothing cuts as deep and unexpectedly as the illusion of hope. -- Wynand de Beer
Sometimes I stumble upon a wonderfully irresistible [to me] voice, unexpectedly. -- Joyce Carol Oates
How to arrive unexpectedly and invisibly: show up looking poor, but not homeless. -- Jarod Kintz
If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. -- Mary Oliver
I really enjoy Martin Sheen - he is very unexpectedly funny, very quick. -- Noureen DeWulf
One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. -- Alberto Manguel
War may break out unexpectedly. Wars are not declared, nowadays. They simply start. -- J. Stalin
I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me. -- Andrew Johnson
That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again. -- Helen Oyeyemi
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life. -- Alfred Hitchcock
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place. -- C. S. Lewis
The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
There's an unexpectedly high share of workers still in agriculture, .. That's like a fault line. -- Edward Taylor
Moments of pure happiness come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them. -- Jessica Lange
His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning. -- P. G. Wodehouse
no war really comes unexpectedly. The drums are beating long before a single shot is fired. -- Margaret Case Harriman
I was grateful to Ben the way you are grateful to someone who is unexpectedly kind. -- Cheryl Drake Harris
Revenge is a dish best served unexpectedly and from a distance - like a thrown trifle. -- Frances Hardinge
Isn't it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful? -- Mary Oliver
A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet. -- Francois Mauriac
I am constantly looking to push boundaries with materials, bring in new weights, and work in fabrics unexpectedly. -- Roksanda Ilincic
What is humor?' one of their professors had posed, and he had answered, ''nondangerous, unexpectedly inappropriate juxtaposition. -- Sena Jeter Naslund
Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator. -- Helen Gurley Brown
The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise. -- Jill Soloway
I'd say that the middle stanza is closer: that's the place where the poem ranges unexpectedly into a different realm. -- Jane Hirshfield
The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark. -- Virginia Woolf
One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully. -- Alain de Botton
We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it? -- Gautama Buddha
If I die unexpectedly can everyone just do the right thing and pretend I was a way better person than I am? -- Anna Kendrick
The nanny seemed to be extinct until 1975, when, like the coelacanth, she suddenly and unexpectedly reappeared in the shape of Margaret Thatcher. -- Simon Hoggart
When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value . -- Sun Bin
Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep. -- H. M. Tomlinson
Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful ... -- Rumer Godden
If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
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We must constantly dare ourselves in the small things, until courage becomes a habit of mind that will serve us when we are unexpectedly tested. -- Chris Cleave
George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose. -- Ilka Chase
The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right back where we started. -- Douglas Hofstadter
Dictatorships sometimes fall unexpectedly and quickly. And [Vladimir] Putin knows that for him, the loss of power doesn't mean a comfortable retirement, but something completely different. -- Garry Kasparov
And then it happens all at once and unexpectedly. That is how things happen, I suppose. You pack your bags and find yourself walking yourself home. -- Shannon L. Alder
If you want to do something and you have a goal, do it, don't wait, because your channel might change sometime soon - and quite unexpectedly. -- Sean Swarner
Certainly, Lu. Whatever you like,' said Peter unexpectedly. This was encouraging, but as Peter instantly rolled round and went to sleep again it wasn't much use. -- C. S. Lewis
Flavour your life in such a way that anyone who thinks he or she is biting or back-biting you, will rather take smiles away unexpectedly and with surprises. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Sometimes, Just when we need them, life wraps metaphors up in little bows for us. When you think all is lost, the things you need the most return unexpectedly. -- Susannah Cahalan
Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be so much more the grateful. -- Horace
He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living. -- Elena Ferrante
Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates. -- George Eliot
This is terrific! What fun! Maybe tomorrow I can go to the prom with my brother. The day after, perhaps I can wear white pants and unexpectedly get my period. -- Jen Lancaster
The best ideas come unexpectedly from a conversation or a common activity like watering the garden. These can get lost or slip away if not acted on when they occur. -- Ruth Asawa
Who doesn't need hope in their lives: hope that something can change, that someone cares, that not only bad things happen unexpectedly but good things can happen to us too? -- Danielle Steel
One unexpectedly striking moment, when Tom Amandes as Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address, not in booming, this-is-a-great-speech style, but casually, as if chatting over dinner. The approach elevates the words. -- Neil Genzlinger
Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship, sailing across endless oceans, never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly, unexpectedly, it will find mooring for a moment. -- Etty Hillesum
Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
I'll leave it to you, Sassenach," he said dryly, "to imagine what it feels like to arrive unexpectedly in the midst of a brothel, in possession of a verra large sausage. -- Diana Gabaldon
Marathoning is like cutting yourself unexpectedly. You dip into the pain so gradually that the damage is done before you are aware of it. Unfortunately, when the awareness comes, it is excruciating. -- John Farrington
Into all our lives, in many simple, familiar, homely ways, God infuses this element of joy from the surprises of life, which unexpectedly brighten our days and fill our eyes with light. -- Samuel Longfellow
I never argue with the tape. To be angry at the market because it unexpectedly or even illogically goes against you is like getting mad at your lungs because you have pneumonia. -- Jesse Lauriston Livermore
A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East. -- Henry David Thoreau
Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied. It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than many fantastic enterprises and sentimental experiments, and hence its singular success. -- Henry David Thoreau
Stuart, who had just witnessed me go through an entire rainbow of emotions and experiences. There was parents-have-just-been-jailed me, stuck-in-a-strange-town me, insane-and-can't-shut-up me, kind-of-snarky-to-the-strange-guy-trying-to-be-helpful me, breakup me, and the extremely popular jump-on-top-of-you-unexpectedly me. -- Maureen Johnson
Her dad died unexpectedly, so I hid the flowers, because flowers are reminders of spring and life, and also of headstones and death. Also, I hid the flowers because they were for another woman. -- Jarod Kintz
I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly. -- James A. Baldwin
Did you love Melanie?" asked Adam unexpectedly. There was no pause before I shook my head. "That's a shame," said Adam. "Why?" "Well, someone as special as your daughter should've been... made with love. -- Malorie Blackman
Nothing sends the message to your enemy that he has not fully understood the situation on the battlefield--a tactician's greatest sin--like zombies unexpectedly tapping their rear guard on the shoulder and eating their brains. -- Scott Kenemore
Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. -- Jodi Picoult
He grinned at me so unexpectedly I forgot to flap for a second and dropped several feet."You looove me," he crooned smugly holding his arms out wide, he added,"You love me this much. -- James Patterson
Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being." -- Jiddu Krishnamurti

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