Quotes About Anticipation

Climbing Mount Everest is more satisfying than standing at the top; flirting and foreplay are more exciting than having an orgasm; and conducting groundbreaking lab experiments is more interesting than receiving praise and prizes.

Anton Chekhov famously said that a gun appearing in the first act of a play will inevitably be fired in the third. Throughout

Then what will happen tomorrow? Nobody knows.

We always prepare ourselves for the previous enemy, even when we face an altogether new menace.

que nadie imaginaba ni deseaba.

echoing John the Baptist's cry: 'the kingdom of heaven is near' (Matthew 3:

Pre-order is the new order

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

The future comes quickly. Before you know it, you turn around and it's tomorrow.

With women the best part is the discovery. There's nothing like the first time, nothing. You don't know what life is until you undress a woman the first time. A button at a time, like peeling a hot sweet potato on a winter's night.

She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that's one of the reasons why they did.

The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.

Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come.

There was that special smell made up of paper, ink, and dust; the busy hush; the endless luxury of thousands of unread books. Best of all was the eager itch of anticipation as you went out the door with your arms loaded down with books.

Just looking at the outside of the library made Robin lose herself for a minute, remembering the feel of libraries. There was that special smell made up of paper, ink, and dust; the busy hush; the endless luxury of thousands of unread books. Best of all was the eager itch of anticipation as you went out the door with your arms loaded down with books. Libraries had always seemed almost too good to be true.

Something's going to happen!

Fantasy is a means for an ideology to take its own failure into account in advance.

I'm a child in that respect: able to live, physically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but always in danger of crushing the waited-for event with the freight of my excessive hope.

I stokro? wol? typ kobiety przej?ciowej ni? typ kobiety przysz?o?ci - bo kobieta przej?ciowa zapowiada niesko?czenie wi?cej, ni? tamta w swym dokonaniu si? usprawiedliwi

Expectations define achievement.

Not the action, but the expectation, creates results.

I don't know about you, but I've got plans for next Thursday. And I'm not in the mood to have them ruined by some apocalypse.

At the sight of Day, her whole face lit up. "Mikhail! You came! Barbara said you would, but that we might have to wait for hell to freeze over first. Did it?

It's about damned time," he said in a husky voice. "If I had to wait five more minutes to kiss you, I think I probably would have turned into a dragon myself.