Quotes About Anticipation

As if every living thing rushes to establish a foothold before some cataclysm arrives.

It seems to Werner that in the space between whatever has happened already and whatever is to come hovers an invisible borderland, the known on one side and the unknown on the other.

A vida toda você espera; agora, quando finalmente acontece, você está pronto?

I am quite gifted at waiting.

Se pelo menos a vida fosse como um romance de Júlio Verne... e você pudesse passar as páginas para a frente, quando precisasse, para descobrir o que estava para acontecer.

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

The dread that had been rising all morning rose higher in his throat as if by capillary action.

There are moments when von Rumpel feels impatience rising in him like bile, but he forces himself to swallow it back. It will come.

as if the imminent could not wait to become the past, or the present lunged at the future, eager for what would be.

All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready?

start today so that everything works out tomorrow

investigation into the future can make it possible to avoid unpleasant events.

was kept waiting in an anteroom and was admitted only after a long delay.

Not Cancelled Yet Some honorary day if I play my cards right I might be a postage stamp but I won't be there to lick me and licking is what I liked, in tasty anticipation of the long dark slither from the mailbox, from box to pouch to hand to bag to box to slot to hand: that box is best whose lid slams open as well as shut, admitting a parcel of daylight, the green top of a tree, and a flickering of fingers, letting go.

Today is the tomorrow we feared yesterday.

I'm having an old friend for dinner.

You've already said you were going to kill me," Alex said, "but I didn't think that meant you were going to bore me to death.

There are, I think, occasions when you know that you have arrived at the end of a long journey, when, even though your destination is still concealed from sight, you are somehow aware that when you turn the corner that lies just ahead of you, there it will be.

One car behind him. Two more ahead. The plane was now in

Je l'entends toujours. Alors que je repose mon stylographe et que je me dirige vers mon lit, je perçois l'archet qu'on tire sur le chevalet, et la musique qui s'élève dans le ciel nocturne. C'est lointain et à peine audible - mais c'est là! Un pizzicato. Un trémolo. Le style est impossible à à confondre avec un autre. C'est Sherlock Holmes. ll faut que ce soit lui. J'espère que c'est pour moi qu'il joue...

Diana Cowper had planned her funeral and she was going to need it. She was murdered about six hours later that same day.

he waited for one load of passengers to get off and another to get on, he would never see the

One car behind him. Two

You must know that feeling when it's raining outside and the heating's on and you lose yourself, utterly, in a book. You read and you read and you feel the pages slipping through your fingers until suddenly there are fewer in your right hand than there are in your left and you want to slow down but you still hurtle on towards a conclusion you can hardly bear to discover.