Quotes About Anticipation

Don't count your chickens before they turn into KFC

Life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.

Ai bi?t ???c...Ng??i ta cÅ©ng gi?ng nhÆ° má»™t cu?n ti?u thuy?t: chÆ°a ??n trang cu?i thì chÆ°a bi?t k?t c?c s? ra sao. B?ng không thì Ä'âu Ä'áng ?? ??c...

My heart was light, quick, like an aero, and carrying, carrying me upward. I knew: tomorrow held some sort of joy. But what would it be?

A human being is like a novel: until the last page you don't know how it will end. Or it wouldn't be worth reading.

Un medic adevarat incepe sa-l trateze pe om cand acesta e inca sanatos, cand omul se va imbolnavi abia maine, poimaine, peste o saptamana.

Man is like a novel: up to the last page one does not know what the end will be. It would not be worth reading otherwise

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.

The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening.

The future ain't what it used to be.

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.

My emotional state then was cramped and confined, like a room with tightly sealed windows and doors: although love's footsteps could be heard outside the room, I felt they were steps heading somewhere else--until one day when the steps came to a halt and the bell rang.

Just now I had a dream. I'll see you again. I know it. Beneath the falls.

Man always finds the omens he wants.

Well, that's what they do on television. Every fifteen minutes, there are breaks for commercials. That way we get to look forward to what's coming next. That's how it works in real life too.

Ever since those days this has been the attitude with which I have always confronted life: from things too much waited for, too much embellished with anticipatory daydreams, there is in the end nothing I can do but run away.

Devant ce que j'avais si longtemps attendu, devant ce que j'avais par avance trop embelli au cours de mes rêveries; il ne me restait finalement qu'un seul recours : la fuite.

Ever since then violent anticipation has always been an anguish rather than joy for me.

Se había entregado al trabajo con la esperanza de haberlo ya olvidado, pero cuando dejaba la tienda el último cliente y el local quedaba en calma, le llegaba el burbujeo de la fuente del patio y, al escucharlo, el terror la asediaba. Entonces, se daba cuenta de que estaba esperando...

I somehow looked forward to death impatiently, with a sweet expectation.

No matter how serious the obligation, a star is more of a star if he never arrives. Absence is his forte. The question of whether he'll show up gives the event a ceaseless undercurrent of suspense. But a true star never arrives. Showing up is for second-rate actors who need to seek attention.

See her? I was born to read her mind. I can get so close to her my breath is cool on her skin, & she'll be seven blocks away when a cry leaps into her throat & she knows I untied the money belt hidden under her velvet jacket.