Quotes About Anticipation

Behold, this dreamer cometh.

Don't worry, it only seems kinky the first time.

Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.

As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

A vacation is like love — anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.

The Campbells are comin', oho, oho.

The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me.

The day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off.

Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.

Gone fishin', be back at dark-thirty!

We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.

If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.

Or in the future, dreading possible calamities and unpleasantnesses, anticipating future joys, dreaming of future events.

If only life were like a Jules Verne novel, thinks Marie-Laure, and you could page ahead when you most needed to, and learn what would happen.

Ojalá la vida fuera como una novela de Julio Verne y uno pudiera pasar las páginas cuando lo necesita para saber lo que va a suceder más adelante.

to raise one's hopes is to risk their falling further.

The bookseller said it's in two parts, and this is the first. I thought that next year, if we keep saving, we can get the second—

Any moment, it seemed, something could tear the sky and whatever was on the other sides would push through.

The future waited for him to keep his appointment.

Frederick runs hard. But the fastest boys are greyhounds, harvested from all over the nation for their speed and eagerness to obey, and they seem to Werner to be running more fervently, more conclusively, than they have before. They are impatient to find out what will happen if someone is caught.

Werner lunges for Volkheimer's rifle. All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready?

The city seems utterly still, as though everyone is listening, waiting for someone to slip.