Quotes About Anticipation

Life is like an 6-slice apple pie at a 12-guest dinner banquet. If you just sit back and wait for it to come to you, chances are, you're going to miss dessert.

You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.

Contentment is the equilibrium between the enjoyment of life now and the anticipation of what is to come.

I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.

Not knowing what will happen makes life fun.

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don't expect anything, you don't get disappointed.

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.

She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.

But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: "This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out.

What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.

I have a rendezvous with life.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

You will never get any more out of this life than you expect.

It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.

As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents fits into the larger pattern like a mosaic in a preconceived design.

For him , life was a coin that had disaster on one side and waiting for disaster on the other

I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!

My life's experiences, I've always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what's going to happen oftentimes before it happened when it's involving me

I'm really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.