Quotes About Anticipation

The idea of a slow approach to the luxury of leisure drove him wild. He was, of course, progressing toward it, but, like a child eating his ice cream so slowly that he couldn't taste it at all.

Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.

I'm always afraid of a girl—until I've kissed her. SHE:

Le lieutenant la regardait pendant qu'elle me parlait, d'une façon dont toutes les jeunes filles espèrent qu'on les regardera un jour.

Sommer ist nur das uneingelöste Versprechen des Frühling.

up into my face, promising that there was no one in the world she so much wanted to see. That was a way she had. She

Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…. And one fine morning——

Gatsby acreditava na luz verde, no futuro orgástico que, ano após ano, recua diante dos nossos olhos. Nessa altura iludiu-nos, mas não importa - amanhã correremos mais depressa, esticaremos mais os braços... E uma bela manhã...

Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring.

And as far as Norma was concerned, that was the main problem with life. You never knew what was going to happen from minute to minute, and more than anything in this world, Norma hated a surprise.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.

Done. I have a date. Well, hot damn!

She was there! At a palace! Trish strained to see through the heavily tinted windows but was unsuccessful. In a minute, she'd be outside. Then, a few minutes after that, she'd be inside the palace. A real palace.

the big dinner and gift opening to Christmas Eve so they could sleep late on

I know not what tomorrow will bring.

El cansancio de todas las ilusiones y de todo cuanto hay en las ilusiones: su pérdida, la inutilidad de tenerlas, el cansancio anticipado de tener que tenerlas para perderlas, la amargura de haberlas tenido, la vergüenza intelectual de haberlas tenido sabiendo que tendrían ese final.

I'll always be the one who waited for a door to open in a wall without doors

Seré siempre el que esperó a que le abrieran la puerta, junto a un muro sin puerta

We are hollow inside and out, pariahs of anticipation and promise.

Ä°lerde bir gün gelecek olanlar daha ÅŸimdiden yaÅŸl?yd?; sadece hiç gelmeyecek olanlar gençti.

Like happiness, the day was taking a long time to arrive, and at that hour, it felt as if it never would.

If only the day and happiness would never come! If only hopes could at least not suffer the disappointment of coming true!