Quotes About Anticipation

and understood that he had been awaited with impatience, to be greeted with enthusiasm.

all human wisdom is summed up in these two words, — `Wait and hope.

and left the table, to return a few moments later

Athos was delighted to find he was going to fight an Englishman. We might say that was his dream.

Mais qu'est-ce que l'attente, sinon une sorte de folie, et qu'est-ce que la folie, sinon un excès d'espoir ?

All human wisdom is contained in these two words- Wait and Hope.

They were prepared for everything except what actually happened.

Time dribbles through our fingers while we wait.

We never know the end of the story until we get there.

It was always best to step into the future while it was still waiting for you.

You feel your heart and bones and blood. You wait for him like a bird in a cage.

For six months I did what women do: I waited. This is what women are taught to be good at. It's said that a woman's life is merely preparation for the primal nine-month wait. Whatever the reason, they do it well. Sometimes they drink or bite their fingernails down to the wrist. They count stars and initials and wait: for something to happen, for something to pass, to change, to begin, to end.

One morning when the air was misleading and mild with hope....

She takes the fortune cookies from the bottom of the bag and throws them into a glass bowl she keeps in the closet. She has no desire to know what her future might hold.

Pete wondered if the endings of things gathered in the corners of a room, hanging down like a spider's web, waiting.

Sometimes you think you know what's going to happen next, and then the world surprises you

In her opinion, everything goes wrong if you give it enough time. Close your eyes, count to three, and chances are you'll have some sort of disaster creeping up on you.

Maria had been expecting a visitor, for the broom had fallen only an hour earlier, which always meant company was coming.

This is the way it happens. You walk into a room with blue walls. You kiss a man in the garden. You feel your heart and bones and blood. You wait for him like a bird in a cage.

It was best to step into the future while it was still waiting for you.

Sometimes you know when doors will open; you have only to walk up to them and wait.

had felt a chill, as if she brought the future with her, clinging to her clothes.

Saw in her mind's eye that delicious moment when Stan—a version of the piano player himself, when you thought about it—smiled the sweet self-satisfied smile that always preceded the double take, the panic, the inevitable disaster. (Down, down, down the keyboard he went and down, down, down in her mind's eye went the poor piano.) Images that stayed with her even as John woke and

With her eyes to the ceiling she said, "It's a baby grand." Her husband turned his head on the pillow. He might have been startled to find her there. He frowned, and then hesitated, and then whispered, disbelieving, "You can tell already?