Quotes About Anticipation

Ah, the deliciousness of discovering a masterwork. My heart begins to lift. I can see myself sitting all day in my chair, immersed in lives, plots, and sentences, intoxicated by words and chimeras, paralyzed by satisfaction and contentment, reading until the deepening twilight, until I can no longer make out the words, until my mind begins to wander, until my aching muscles are no longer able to keep the book aloft. Joy is the anticipation of joy.

Night's darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.

Amal: It isn't sad. When they shut me in here first I felt the day was so long. Since the King's Post Office I like it more and more being indoors, and as I think I shall get a letter one day, I feel quite happy and then I don't mind being quiet and alone. I wonder if I shall make out what'll be in the King's letter? Gaffer: Even if you didn't wouldn't it be enough if it just bore your name?

While Ratan was awaiting her call, the postmaster was awaiting a reply to his application.

If you would be busy and fill your pitcher, come, O come to my lake. The water will cling round your feet and babble its secret. The shadow of the coming rain is on the sands, and the clouds hang low upon the blue lines of the trees like the heavy hair above your eyebrows. I know well the rhythm of your steps, they are beating in my heart. Come, O come to my lake, if you must fill your pitcher.

You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.

Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.

The truth was I had always assumed that pleasure was being held in store for me, like something I was amassing in a bank account, but by the time I came to ask for it I discovered the store was empty. It appeared that it was a perishable entity, and that I should have taken it a little earlier.

the way I used to turn the pages of a book to find out what happens in the final chapter

I had gone for the letters at once. The post always intoxicates me; everythin it throws on to the mat is a magic square or oblong which may alter your life.

Kako je razgovor skrenuo od onoga kada ga je željela poljubiti do ovogasada kada ga želi ne?ime zveknuti u glavu?I zašto nije bila ni najmanje iznena?ena?

He looked at me again and his eyes shone in the lamplight, or with the inner light of delighted anticipation. His enthusiasm made him beautiful.

Never expect the votes to come.

Our thoughts about an event can have a dramatic effect on how we go through the event itself. When our expectations are low, it's easy to be pleasantly surprised. When they're not, we're vulnerable to painful disappointment. Because of this, many people spend a good deal of effort trying to avoid developing high hopes about anything.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I've always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn't wait to be 16 and get a driver's license.

When you create art, the world has to wait.

Don't wait until you're in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

We'll have to wait the old-fashioned way.

I haven't a clue what's going to happen next, and I can't wait to find out.

I believe it is better to be prepared for illness than to wait for a cure.