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Quotes About Anticipation

Be ready for the gift you least expect. Every day. It's the only way to live….
~ Luanne Rice
and that laugh was my signal that it was all about to change.
~ Luanne Rice
Someday's better. It's always in the future, and it's always possible.
~ Luanne Rice
Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.
~ Lucy Grealy
I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Pues yo creo que esperar las cosas con ilusión es precisamente la mitad de su placer
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Oh Marilla, ansiar pelas coisas é metade do prazer proporcionado por elas - exclamou Anne - Você pode até não conseguir essas coisas, mas nada pode lhe impedir de ter a diversão de ansiar por elas - Anne
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
When I came home I expected a surprise and there was no surprise for me, so of course, I was surprised.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
All summer it feels as if it will rain soon. All summer the strange feeling, 'something will break.
~ Luke Davies
Too often the future was somewhere else, a land where you might find yourself one day. There was no need to travel there on purpose. Easy to tell yourself the future could be staved off and nothing had to change: the present would stretch in a band of gold along the horizon, bright line joining the earth and sky.
~ Lydia Millet
Just wait, just be patient, he will return.
~ Lynne Cox
So the particular strengths of the colon are beginning to become clear. A colon is nearly always preceded by a complete sentence, and in its simplest usage it rather theatrically announces what is to come. Like a well-trained magician's assistant, it pauses slightly to give you time to get a bit worried, and then efficiently whisks away the cloth and reveals the trick complete.
~ Lynne Truss
Wait for it,' the single dash seems to whisper, with a twinkle if you're lucky.
~ Lynne Truss
I'm going to brush my hair and change my clothes if we're going out. That gives you two ten minutes to get it out of your system, so I'm not stuck with a couple of frustrated horndogs all day. But no pressure, she added on a laugh as she swung out of the room and started upstairs.
~ Lynsay Sands
He too had recognized the three faces pressed to the window as the coach had sailed past. He shook his head as the Radnor carriage rode out of sight around the next bend. It had been Suzette, Christiana, and Lisa, all gaping out the window at them. I did tell you they would not take our leaving sitting down, Langley pointed out, sounding amused. You didn't say they would follow, Daniel said dryly. Langley laughed and shrugged. Why spoil the surprise?
~ Lynsay Sands
Decker lifted his eyes skyward, expecting something to happen. He didn't know what, perhaps for the stars overhead to explode into shimmery fireworks, or for the sky to crack open and pour down rain and thunder to mark the moment. But nothing happened. The most important moment of his life arrived not with a bang as he'd always expected, but with the quiet rustle of wind through the trees and a serene breeze brushing his cheeks.
~ Lynsay Sands
Efficiency involves attentiveness to those things that must be dealt with before they become such overwhelming problems that they cause far more damage than necessary.
~ M. Scott Peck
To paraphrase the disappeared Jimmy Hoffa, who certainly didn't go down in history for his foolish worries: "Eighty-five percent of what you worry about won't ever come to pass. And you can always deal with that other fifteen percent." Of course, look what happened to Jimmy Hoffa.
~ M.A. Harper
So," Guy drawled. "When are we leaving?" "As soon as possible," Chester told him. "I have a wedding to put off.
~ M.C.A. Hogarth
Imagem vivaz do gênio e do louco: um fita o presente, com todas as suas lágrimas e saudades, outro devassa o futuro com todas as suas auroras.
~ Machado de Assis
Verdadeiramente foi o princípio da minha vida; tudo o que sucedera antes foi como o pintar e vestir das pessoas que tinham de entrar em cena, o acender das luzes, o preparo das rabecas, a sinfonia... Agora é que eu ia começar a minha ópera.
~ Machado de Assis
Não vinha. Capitu pedia-o em suas orações, eu mais de uma vez dava por mim a rezar e a pedi-lo. Já não era como em criança; agora pagava antecipadamente, como os alugueres da casa.
~ Machado de Assis
Bilgi prensler yaln?zca varolan sorunlar? deÄŸil gelecekte ortaya ç?kabilecek sorunlar? da dikkate al?rlar ve her türlü çabay? göstererek bunlar? önlemeye çal???rlar çünkü sorunlar önceden görüldüÄŸünde çareleri kolayca bulunur ama kap?ya dayanmalar?n? beklersen hastal?k art?k iyileÅŸtirilemez hale geldiÄŸi için ilaç çok geç kalm?? olur
~ Machiavelli
And joy is always a promise.
~ Madeleine L'Engle