Quotes About Anticipation

Do you intend to go fishing, Oscar?" "No idea. But I can't travel to Scotland without my rod. It would be almost sacrilegious.

most of what Man does, moment to moment, is for his imagined future, for the coming time, in which he will be happier than in time present.

Sessizce, Cambazlar bir kez ipin üzerinde dengede durdular m?, kalabal?k yaln?zca onlar?n düÅŸmelerini bekler, dedi.

readiness for the midday meal. The

She was trouble looking for somebody to happen to.

If we're not wanting, we're waiting. Waiting for what, we don't know, but something and it's going to happen soon.

Have this thought deeply imprinted within you: One day when I am ready for it I shall receive what I am to receive.

At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.

He ate and he drank. Drink deep, Shere Khan, for when wilt thou drink again? Sleep and dream of the kill.

When a snake misses its stroke, it never says anything or gives any sign of what it means to do next.

You'll be beaten for this in the morning; but I may as well give you something on account now.

because every well-brought-up mongoose always hopes to be a house mongoose some day and have rooms to run about in;

On occasions, very occasionally, things happen as you feel they will, as you feel in your bones they will.

Frank was silent for a moment. He said, "It's supposed to snow this weekend, according to the Channel Five guy, Tom Messner.

I said, 'Yes theres a lot to look a head to. Like croaking iron at Widders Dump. We do the croaking and they get the iron.' He said, 'Riddley theres other things to do as wel.' I said, 'Yes and they all smel of cow shit dont they?

Before one knows it, he's nearly through with the book and then must continue so as to 'find out what happens at the end.' These are the sort of book of which publishers say 'Once you pick it up, you can't put it down,'and one of the major reasons you don't want to put it down is that you don't ever want to pick it up again.

I feel as if there's a huge gulf separating me from all the lucky people in the world; they have so much to look forward to.

But I have always been persuaded that someday, when I grow up, I am destined for great things. And then I wonder when, exactly, I expect that will be.

Over the previous four days I had prepared my answers to all the questions I thought she might ask. Such is the wisdom—or the sad compulsion—of someone who was semi-autistic as a child.

We wait for it, because we always wait for something that will be big, extraordinary and splendid, that will bring us great joy and fill us with pride while also reminding us that there exists something greater than locking and unlocking the office at the same hour, collecting chicks, flattering the boss, petty swindles, loveless embraces, downtime due to poor work coordination, the songs of Rinaldo Bali?ski, or vodka spilled on the table

Equally unthinkable among young men of today is a truly religious renunciation of the world, adhered to with daily self-denial. On the other hand almost any theological student is capable of something far more wonderful. He could found a society with the sole object of saving all those who are lost. The age of great and good actions is past, the present is the age of anticipation when even recognition is received in advance.

No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have.

When the discoveries of possibility are honestly administered, possibility will discover all finitudes but idealize them in the shape of infinity, in anxiety overwhelm the individual, until the individual again overcomes them in the anticipation of faith.

and she was beautiful, a beautiful, strange adventure just waiting to happen.