Quotes About Anticipation

now– The door suddenly was opened! 

One of the ways to avoid trouble was to see it before it got to you.

brow. He was beginning to feel the letdown after an action, and it was too soon.

Only the wind made a sound to be heard, a soft soughing that seemed to whisper of the impending rain. The

A move well planned is a move half-done, and I tried to think through every phase. We

She looked around. There was a bulletin board covered with A papers. She looked from one paper to another and hoped, with all her heart, that she'd see one with Bradley's name on it. She didn't.

She examined her fingernails and said, "It's almost time for me to paint my nails again." Before she left, she told the six remaining members of Group D that she still expected seven holes.

That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret…

It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end, said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him assunder.

If she had seen his face when, safe in his own room, he looked at the picture of a severe and rigid young lady, with a good deal of hair, who appeared to be gazing darkly into futurity, it might have thrown some light upon the subject, especially when he turned off the gas, and kissed the picture in the dark.

A year seems very long to wait before I see them, but remind them that while we wait we may all work, so that these hard days need not be wasted.

As they gathered about the table, Mrs. March said, with a particularly happy face, I've got a treat for you after supper.

Mark my words, Jo, you'll go next.

Don't you wish you could take a look forward and see where we shall all be then? I do," returned Laurie. "I think not, for I might see something sad, and everyone looks so happy now

something very splendid. What it was, she had no idea as yet, but

No Paris either, and that's the worst of it all!

He was a bad thing waiting for a worse thing to happen.

Pierpont wanted to follow him, but he held back, awaiting word of Junius's plans.

All along, he insisted, he knew it would fail and had gone along simply as a tactical maneuver.

She knows her life is on the line but, believe it or not, she's never been so excited! Her husband's a serial killer, and her bodice is wet with tears, but there's a chance her brothers will show up like winning lottery numbers. Which does she want more - her hair wound in the maniac's hands and her white white throat bared, or the sound of boots on marble stairs?

I guess sometimes you've got the hope-fors so much it makes you imagine all sorts of things.

Living, now, had become not simple existence that one took for granted, but a bonus, a gift, with every day that lay ahead an experience to be savoured. Time did not last forever. I shall not waste a single moment, she promised herself. She had never felt so strong, so optimistic. As though she was young once more, starting out, and something marvellous was just about to happen.

Cliffords, were not the only people to realise that there were terrible times ahead.' 'What happened to your