Quotes About Anticipation

Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there.

It had been, she felt, a dumb event preceded by excellent invitations.

She could not explain in so many words, but she felt that those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

We're engaged to be engaged, aren't we?

At first there's nothing to see, but you feel a sort of weariness that tells you something is in the air.

Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

Those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themsleves at the expense of joy.

The hedge was a half-painted picture which would be finished in a few days.

Qua story, it can only have one merit: that of making the audience want to know what happens next. And conversely it can only have one fault: that of making the audience not want to know what happens next.

Well, din-din's nearly ready

I'm on for any mortal thing!' My voice rang true, I swear, but it was the way of Raffles to take the evidence of as many senses as possible. I felt the cold steel of his eyes through mine and through my brain. But what he saw seemed to satisfy him no less than what he heard, for his hand found my hand, and pressed it with a fervour foreign to the man. 'I know you are, and I knew you would be. Only remember, Bunny, it's my turn next to pay the shot!

I expected an ultimatum from my banker by every post. Yet this influence was nothing to the other.

With nothing to look forward to but the next meal, the human animal attaches a preposterous importance to his feeding.

If your opportunity comes and you are not prepared for it, it will only make you look foolish.

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.

At that moment, the images in the giant sphere seemed to freeze in place as all motion suddenly ceased. The charging dragon stood transfixed with a plume of flame suspended in front of his nostrils. The knight hung motionless in mid-stride, both feet off the ground, sword raised but unmoving. Time stood still. The crowd waited in breathless anticipation.

A smidgen of prevention can prevent some real headaches!

a book with a bookmark inside implies someone has merely gone away, and will be back to finish it soon. Removing the bookmark takes on a horrible finality

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

When we anticipate all of these potential difficulties, we are experiencing learning anxiety, which often accompanies any unlearning and is the primary source of resistance to change. As long as learning anxiety remains stronger than survival anxiety, we will resist change and avoid learning.

If you have to forecast, forecast often.

For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.

The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing—but we all do and call it Hope.