Quotes About Anticipation

What is it that you think about just before you get a condom? Sex!

While dissatisfaction implies either rejection or frustrated pursuit of satisfaction, unsatisfaction is something more like acceptance combined with anticipation. It is acknowledgement of desire without the demand that it be satisfied--a kind of openness that doesn't ask for closure. It is desire that can live with deferral, an embrace of the God-shaped vacuum in us and a commitment to stop trying to make it full, a healthy hunger that is content to wait for the feast.

Well, the heart always holds out hope that the mind knows may not likely be met.

She had been strapped into a roller coaster and the car had started to move. She could hear the irreversible clacking on the tracks.

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

If these were the foresmellings, I expected nothing less than fully ripe putrescence by, say, ten o'clock.

Second, all four women in the genealogy are involved in unexpected sexual relationships. Therefore, they anticipate Joseph's learning that his betrothed is pregnant.

Anticipation is sometimes more exciting than actual events.

Let us see what tomorrow will bring us? Will it be joy and triumph, chaos and glory, love and growth, or victory and success?

The future is a convenient place for dreams

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.

Again begins the ridiculous, terrible waiting, in which we do not know which object to move, which gesture to repeat—what to do in order to make what we are waiting for happen.

Indépendamment de ce qui arrive, n'arrive pas, c'est l'attente qui est magnifique.

La maison de mon coeur est prête Et ne s'ouvre qu'à l'avenir. Puisqu'il n'est rien que je regrette, Mon bel époux, tu peux venir.

Time is a tease. Time is a tease–because everything has to happen in its own time.

Indépendamment de ce qui arrive, n'arrive pas, c'est l'attente qui est magnifique.

The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

Toujours l'inattendu arrive

I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.

The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts.

The whole book stays put, right there all the time, always the same, with the words perfectly lined up one after another, waiting.

But regardless, Mr. Meinert looked forward to Wednesday night the way a parent looks forward to seeing a child take those first few steps alone — alone, but not really.

Very seldom do you look into your future with no idea of what is going to happen next. It is not a comfortable feeling, exciting but not comfortable.