Quotes About Anticipation

You cannot back into the future

I should've suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive," Kynes said.

spannungsbogen"—which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing. —

when one has lived with prophecy for so long, the moment of revelation is a shock.

The waiting moment was packed with time, with rustling needle-stick movements.

How excellent! And if you handed one of them the complete scenario of his life, the unvarying dialogue up to his moment of death- what a hellish gift that's be. What other boredom! Every living instant he be replaying what he knew absolutely. No deviation. He could anticipate every response every utterance over and over and over and over and over and…

There are days when I go to church just for the chance to maybe see her smile at me.

Mr. Nichols chuckled. "When Ma gets to going, I say to myself, 'Henry, buckle your seat belt!

Full of anticipation about their new mystery, the Hardys drove directly to their tree-shaded house at the corner of High and Elm streets.

Just then a car pulled up in front of the house with a squeal of tires and a series of loud backfires. "Don't tell me—let me guess. It's Chet Morton," said Frank.

In that case, I'll miss the thing by waiting for it.

The messiah will come when we don't need him anymore.

For a time I let my mouth hang open, so that my excitement might take opportunity and leave.

In that case, I'll miss the thing by waiting fot it. (Epígraf a Laszló Krasznahorkai, «Tango Satánico», citació de Kafka, «El castell»)

Your eyes seem to be expecting miracles I would be most honored and willing to perform.

Sometimes it's as though I were a gladiator in training. He doesn't know what they have in store for him, but to judge by the training he is being put through, it may be a great battle with all of Rome looking on.

I'm getting the flutters about joining This Morning.' I can't believe it. It's beyond my wildest dreams!

Wildlife photography takes a long time because you have to wait for things to happen.

I guess, at the beginning of any project, I always have the same hope, which is that it's going to be wildly successful and critically acclaimed, and it'll be a major thing.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Vintage never fits the way you think it will.

When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.

You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.

Each goal, each win, going to different buildings, the rivalries, the excitement - it is something. I try to catch myself, you know, in the warm-ups, when you're on the line and the anthem and you get to some milestones and stuff. It's such a neat experience.