Quotes About Anticipation

Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it's futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

Science is prediction, not explanation.

Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.

The Suitors Ball is fast approaching and it's a nasty reminder that my suitor will be chosen shortly. I feel sorry for the poor unfortunate guy, whichever one of them it happens to be.

She knew it was going to happen, was ready for it, but when he pulled her to his lips, nothing could have prepared her for the heavy rush of desire that slammed through her.

Well we've moved through the funfair a bit - we've done the rollercoaster, now we're on the ghost train.

When you become big enough to wear this, they'll come for you. You'll probably be 17. It will be spring. Get on the ship. There, your ability will be needed. Then you'll be... free from solitude.

Nothing is harder on the nerves than hope.

Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.

we give each other a smile with a future in it

Soup is to the meal, what the hostesses smile of welcome is to the party. A prelude to the goodness to come.

I'm going to be your grandpa! / I have the biggest smile. / I've been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while.

Peter stood up and let a wicked smile slide across his face. "Time to play.

It was the smile which runs before a promise.

I've heard the expression climbing walls, but I never thought I'd experience it, let alone like that," she murmured, her mouth curling into what was probably a dreamy smile.

And you asked why people always expected you to smile in photographs. And I told you it was because they hoped that in the future, there would be something to smile about

Dignified in what she does, when she sings the smile that she brings to all of you unaware of what's to come, I said tell me what's to come.

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Well, said Pooh, what I like best, and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.

When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.

When I was young, the future was where all the good stuff was kept, the party clothes, the pretty china, the family silver, the grown-up jobs. The future was a land of its own, and we couldn't wait to get there. Not that youth wasn't great, but it came with disadvantages; I remember the feeling I was missing something really good that was going on somewhere else, somewhere I wasn't. I remember feeling life passing me by. I remember impatience. I don't feel that way now.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.