Surprises Quotes

Commonplace people have an answer for everything and nothing ever surprises them. They try to look as though they knew what you were about to say better than you did yourself, and when it is their turn to speak, they repeat with great assurance something that they have heard other people say, as though it were their own invention.

Eugene Delacroix
The calendar was a mathematical progression with arbitrary surprises.

Paul Scott

“He who sees the past as surprise free is bound to have a future full of surprises.”

Amos Tversky
- Future
- Past
- Surprises
It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event takes place, when at the front an army is in danger, or defeated, or victorious, the rather obscure news which the cultivated man does not quite understand, excite in the masses an emotion which surprises him and in which, once the experts have informed him of the actual military situation, he recognizes the populace's perception of that "aura" surrounding great events and visible for hundreds of kilometers.

Marcel Proust
- Army
- Danger
- Realities
I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.

Catherine Deneuve
- Movies
- Actor
- Go To
Economists must always be prepared for surprises: they find many in trying to find order in the universe of their study.

Simon Kuznets
I'm just not built for fairytale surprises.

Karen Tayleur
But the happy ending has to do with the tricks of the narrative, not with life, or even love, which is an uncontrollable, changeable feeling, with nasty surprises that are alien to the happy ending.

Elena Ferrante
- Love
- Happy
- Surprises