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Quotes About Anticipation

Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.
~ Victor Hugo
I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
~ Oliver Sacks
You just never know what's around the next corner in life or business or anything.
~ Paul Brown
A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you thought they could.
~ Lawrence Summers
Life isn't just a sequence of waiting for things to be done.
~ Ze Frank
You loved ferris wheels more than roller coasters because life shouldn't be lived at full speed, but in anticipation and appreciation.
~ Amy Harmon
Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.
~ Voltaire
Think about all the tomorrows of your life.
~ Walter Dean Myers
As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.
~ Gloria Swanson
We all use the future to escape the present.
~ John Green
There's always a tomorrow and the hope of something new.
~ Helen Steiner Rice
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
~ Tom Stoppard
Life has taught me one big lesson, always keep the girlies guessing.
~ Elvis Presley
My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.
~ Tom Stoppard
For a second, I think he's going to kiss me. For a second, I want him to.
~ Jennifer Niven
As long as you live, there's always something waiting.
~ Jennifer Niven
I have this feeling, ever since April, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what.
~ Jennifer Niven
It's like all the other hours of the day are spent looking forward to right now.
~ Jennifer Niven
It wasn't that the ice-cream man came everyday; he came whenever the child heard his music.
~ Jenny Boully
Email was great, but she did miss being excited by the post. That was probably why people did so much Internet shopping, she reckoned. So they had a parcel to look forward to.
~ Jenny Colgan
My fear of the future, she says, has not yet failed.
~ Jenny Erpenbeck
How is a person supposed to prepare for what happens tomorrow when there's just no figuring out today?
~ Jenny Han
I say, " I can't believe you're really here." He sounds almost shy when he says, "Me neither." And then he hesitates. "Are you still coming with me?" I cant believe he even has to ask. I would go anywhere. "Yes," I tell him. It feels like nothing else exists outside of that word, this moment. There's just us. Everything that happened this past summer and every summer before it, has all led up to this. To Now
~ Jenny Han
The first time I saw him again, it was another year, at my college graduation. And I just knew.
~ Jenny Han