Mary Renault Quotes

I think it's a feeling like I've got it all figured out. There's nothing that can shock me anymore. There's nothing I haven't anticipated; so at that point, there is a calmness.

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active.

In some ways, the audience becomes complacent when they go to a horror film. And so it's fun to take that attitude and then to upend it.

I don't think we fully understood what the implications could be when we found out we were doing 'SNL.'

In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.

Say what you will, but you’re never prepared for the surprise attack.

He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored

If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.

We are never prepared for what we expect.

Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.

He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them.

One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.

It's not the punch you expect that knocks you down.

That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

There is no fear. There are only two things. Trained and untrained.

It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.

I don't know what my fans are going to think. It's definitely not what they're used to from me.

Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

Thinking ... is what gets you caught from behind.

Speak kind words to mankind and the unkind will attack you. Speak common sense using all your senses, and you will attacked by the senseless. Speak truth and you will be attacked by the untruthful. Speak about absolutely nothing and absolutely nothing will speak back, but then nothing at all will ever change.

Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.

All things are ready, if our mind be so.

One of the reasons many people don't have what they want is neglect. Neglect starts out as an infection and then develops into a disease.