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Quotes About Anticipation

Eying him, Finn felt he knew the type if not the man. His only fear then was that the man might shoot first and ask questions later. Thankfully, he did not.
~ Alan Dean Foster
One of three things would occur when she thumbed it, she knew: They would lift off, the ship would blow up, or nothing at all would happen.
~ Alan Dean Foster
This year, of course, being 1936, there would be no figs.
~ Alan Furst
What is "secretly present in what he said about anything" is an openness to delight, to the sense that there's more to the world than meets the jaundiced eye, to the possibility that anything could happen to someone who is ready to meet that anything.
~ Alan Jacobs
After I took two pees- 'cause the news of this mandatory dress rehearsal was way too big of a nuclear bomb to just take one- we made plans to meet by the Fountain before the dress rehearsal began to get our act together.
~ Alan Lawrence Sitomer
Thus, in this world of brief scenes from the future, few risks are taken. Those who have seen the future do not need to take risks, and those who have not yet seen the future wait for their visions without taking risks.
~ Alan Lightman
We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
~ Alan Lightman
Indeed, what sense is there in continuing the present when one has seen the future?
~ Alan Lightman
The future is beckoning. She makes up her mind. Without finishing her packing, she rushes out of her house, this point of her life, rushes straight to the future.
~ Alan Lightman
His sister, in a big turquoise Angora sweater, leaned upon the wood frame of the open nursery door, anxiously looking out to see if he was really going to show, beaming and waving like a pastel colored TV Muppet when she spotted him.
~ Alan Moore
I waited for him to come out. He didn't. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I had readied myself to kill him did not mean that he had readied himself to die.
~ Derrick Jensen
The future is holding a lot of secrets, that shall bring many dreamy days jumbled with some of the darkest days. -MillYentei
~ Deshawn Yeldell
Despite being given the freedom to take decisions, Narad chooses to stay karya-karta, follow decisions rather than take them, as he is too afraid of the consequences. Garud, on the other hand, anticipates the needs of Vishnu, decides to enquire voluntarily and is thus a karta. Vishnu who allows Garud to be a karta is a yajaman.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
I'm waiting now, but I will be ready. We are mutual participants, you and I, intertwined.
~ Diana Butler Bass
If they didn't take you seriously, they would never see you coming.
~ Diana Peterfreund
Dear Elliot, I know. When will I see you again? Yours, Kai
~ Diana Peterfreund
I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music.
~ Diana Ross
There was nothing to do but wait. It is always like this for naturalists, and for poets--the long hours of travel and preparation, and then the longer hours of waiting. All for that one electric, pulse-revving vision when the universe suddenly declares itself.
~ Diane Ackerman
anticipation and the preparation are all part of the process of creating what you want and bringing it to fruition.
~ Diane Ahlquist
It seemed like all she did these days was wait.
~ Diane Chamberlain
two more women sat, ready to judge her. She thought of all the times she'd imagined her audition for Juilliard. The people in front of her were not Juilliard professors, but
~ Diane Chamberlain
The best moment for a box of chocolates was before you bit into one. Once you knew it was coconut, the magic was over.
~ Diane Hammond
You didn't know what good things were going to happen to you until you were right in the middle of them, so it was best to always be ready.
~ Diane Hammond
The most expected thing you can expect is what's unexpected.
~ Dick Allen