Quotes About Anticipation

Quizá no consigas las cosas en sí mismas, pero nada puede arrebatarte el placer de esperarlas con ilusión.

No, I don't want you to kiss me--yet. And our first kiss mustn't have the flavour of good-bye. It would be a bad omen. Star o' Morning, I'm sorry you're going. But I'll see you again before long.

Well, let us hope for the best, as Susan says; things are really going well now and if Rumania lines up, the end may come with a suddenness that will surprise us all." Rumania did come in — and Susan remarked approvingly that its king and queen were the finest looking royal couple she had seen pictures of.

Mrs Lynde was complaining the other day that it wasn't much of a world. She said whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed… that nothing ever came up to your expectations. Well, perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either… they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

The future was to be a laborious business.

The civilian world was a dull place, a tired three-piece orchestra, waiting for the word 'fun'.

I know we planned to walk down to Schubert's for burgers, but can we go upstairs first?' She raised her eyebrows. 'What for?' 'Because I need to be inside you. Like...now.

The man was still there. Suddenly forgetting about the snow on the street, he picked up his pace. Ahead was a long, straight, silvery-white road illuminated by the cold glare of street lamps; behind, a detective on a bicycle.

And life (or God) seems to reply, "Get ready! The other shoe is going to drop. When? I want to surprise you.

It struck her that endings were never as you would expect them to be.

I get to expecting to hear him talk and he ain't here. My ears sort of get empty.

Så rusla vi hjemover. Snakka om alt vi skulle gjøre. Om The Snafus. Om hvor berømte vi skulle bli. Om sommeren, enda vinteren bare såvidt hadde begynt, om alle somrene i våre liv. Vi snakka om når vi skulle begynne på gymnaset og om når vi blei ferdige med skolen for godt. Vi blei svære i kjeften og vakre fugler fløy ut av ansiktene våre. Vi tok framtida på forskudd og den så sabla bra ut.

Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know until it is happening.

Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know it until it is happening.

with work, you can give something the strength at the beginning that it needs later on. Before it even knows how it's going to need it.

I didn't know yet that you can always find that perfect moment right before everything shatters.

Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know it until it is happening.

Perhaps Esperanza sank roots in her mother's womb because she knew beforehand what to expect in this world.

For winter was coming.

Whatever are you making, Pa?" Laura asked, and he answered, "Wait and see." He heated the tip of the poker red-hot in the stove, and carefully he burned black every alternate little square. "Curiosity killed a cat, Pa," Laura said. "You look pretty healthy," said Pa.

did hope that somehow Mary could go. "Oh, bother! I've miscounted

i felt my being flutter. each tousled head that came through the door i wanted to be his, but no and on, a dozen boys entered, yet not the one.

Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.

I told her why we are here. I told you wouldn't hurt Jack. The coffin? I smiled. I couldn't help it. He was a 'jack in a box.