Quotes About Anticipation

Leid kommt, wenn es eintrifft, in nichts dem gleich, was wir erwarten. (Joan Didion)

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.

King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now.

Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.

I am the King's Fool. He is the King-In-Wating. Let him wait.

I have said it before. You are too cautious, Fitz. What if this, what if that? You hide from trouble that may never knock at our door.

No one truly understands a prophecy until it comes true.

You poison today's ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

If this is 'good' coffee, I dread what bad coffee might be," I told her. I did as I'd seen Alise do, dumping my unwanted cupful back into the big black pot on the stove. I waited for the tea to brew.

The most reasonable place to end a book is where the next story would begin.

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

Do not force me to look any longer at what I have become. Tell me instead what is to come.

She seemed to have eyes like a fly, with multiple sections that could see sideways and backwards, and into things that hadn't even happened yet. Such as into Barry Hollis's desk where he had a packet of cigarettes and a copy of Playboy.

The conversation he'd been waiting years for. Quite possibly his entire life for.

When they got to Sam Sheridan's house, Mel preceded Jack up the walk toward the front door while Jack began toting luggage and gifts. "Mel," he called, causing her to turn around to see him smiling brightly. "You're starting to waddle," he said proudly. "Uh!" she exclaimed, tossing her hair as she turned abruptly away from him. Although

Good luck with this, man." "It's not what you think." "Oh—it is what I think. You're so into this woman, you're done for. I can't wait to see how this turns out." "Yeah. Me, too.

Hand still on her holster, she tucked herself beside the ice coolers and peered through the open door.

she felt that little tingle at the base of her skull that warned her of bad news.

for their signatures, she returned visitors' passes with dexterity, if not pleasure. Nikki hoped to be the first person allowed inside, but she was disappointed.

May was like the Friday night of summer: all the good times lying ahead of you, bright and shiny and waiting to be lived.

Tomorrow was a big day in Storm. She didn't want to miss one moment of it.

I plan everything. I set everyone in motion, and when the moment comes, I strike. I always win in the end. They never see me coming. Know why? Because I'm already there.

Cynthia's face popped onto the screen, a gorgeous, blue-eyed blonde with a dazzling smile. Mindy thought of the baby and how pretty he or she would have been.