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Quotes About Anticipation

Besides, secretly, without knowing it herself, she had been waiting for a Beast to go to.
~ Francesca Lia Block
If you were sad about something that hadn't happened yet you couldn't be disappointed.
~ Francesca Lia Block
Time is our delight and our prison. It binds all human beings together, since we all share the pleasures and burdens of memory, and we all know the anticipation of cherished goals and the dark prospect of personal mortality.
~ Francesco Petrarca
I don't know why, but I'm dreading it.
~ Francine Pascal
It would take just a little more to drink and just a little more time.
~ Francine Pascal
She probably missed the Morrows' party on my account, waiting around the house for me to show up, Elizabeth thought, heaving a deep sigh.
~ Francine Pascal
With you, 'sometime' could be around the year 2000.
~ Francine Pascal
And something tells me that the week ahead won't be easy, either.
~ Francine Pascal
Oh, I'm sure he won't be for long
~ Francine Pascal
Yes to it all. I had become a puppy that stands on its hind legs and barks when its master fetches its leash.
~ Francine Prose
But if we hope for what we do not have, we wait for it patiently. ROMANS 8 : 25
~ Francine Rivers
Somehow the waiting is harder than the battle itself.
~ Francine Rivers
she's ready." A gorgeous blonde came in with a box that opened
~ Francine Rivers
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
~ Francis Bacon
Knowing where the trap is—that's the first step in evading it.
~ Frank Herbert
I should've suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive.
~ Frank Herbert
Expect only what happens in the fight. That way you'll never be surprised.
~ Frank Herbert
The night is a tunnel, she thought, a hole into tomorrow…
~ Frank Herbert
forever seeking, forever prepared and forever unready.
~ Frank Herbert
He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future.
~ Frank Herbert
The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen"—which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing. —FROM "THE WISDOM OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN
~ Frank Herbert
I see in the future what I've seen in the past.
~ Frank Herbert
The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen"—which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.
~ Frank Herbert
A universe of surprises is what I pray for
~ Frank Herbert