Quotes About Anticipation

When you live a life without questions, you're unprepared for the questions when they come.

In life the only thing that you can expect is the unexpected; the only surprise is a day that has none.

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

Few things move as quietly as the future.

I think something wonderful is going to happen to me. Maybe tomorrow. The phone can ring and your whole life can change.

How slow life is, how violent hope is.

I don't stretch my hand out anymore, but I never get tired of waiting for the next magic.

Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk through a secret passage built into a bookshelf.

Ah, I like the look of packing crates! A household in preparation for a journey! ... Something full of the flow of life, do you understand? Movement, progress...

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises.

Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.

I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

We stand in life at midnight; we are always at the threshold of a new dawn.

Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

You never know what you're going to get as a receiver.

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

Life is full of surprises, isn't it?

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

If we prepare ourselves for life's inevitables, we will not be perplexed by life's transitions.

There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.

As a chapter closes in your life, And a new one starts for you, May your years be filled with all the things You've been looking forward to!