Quotes About Anticipation

I am writing you constantly—in my head and the days pass and I wonder what you will think.

I am waiting for news from Ezra Pound and from Kay Boyle, to whom I sent carbons. They may make valuable suggestions.)

I had been hired to prepare the mountain for the people instead of the other way around.

Think of it as a blind date. All you initially have in common at the bottom is the reason you're there, the top of the mountain.

Espérer , c'est désirer sans jouir , sans savoir et sans pouvoir

Natanael, am s?-È›i vorbesc despre aÈ™tept?ri. Am v?zut câmpia dup? arÈ™iÈ›a verii, aÈ™teptând; aÈ™teptând un pic de ploaie. Praful de pe drumuri devenise prea uÈ™or È™i fiecare adiere îl stârnea. Nu mai era nici m?car o dorin??; era o temere. P?mântul cr?pa de secet? pentru a primi mai bine ploaia. Miresmele florilor de câmpie deveneau aproape de nesuportat. Totul leÈ™ina sub soare.

?i totuÈ™i, de multe ori, fiind cât pe-aici s? culeg o bucurie, i-am întors brusc spatele, aÈ™a cum ar fi putut face un ascet. Nu era vorba deloc de renunÈ›are, ci de o aÈ™teptare, atât de des?vârÈ™it?, a ceea ce putea fi acea bucurie, de o anticipare atât de împlinit?, încât realizarea nu m? mai putea înv??a nimic.

The loudspeaker on the wall crackles, hisses, and suddenly announces, in astonishingly soothing tones, that a train is going to be delayed. An ocean swell of sighs ripples through the waiting room.

a conocer las conclusiones antes

And the sad happiness said, You know precisely when you're going to finish.

There is such a danger of our being more occupied with the things that are coming than with Him who is to come.

They knew trouble would come but expected it in degrees. Life so often arrives all of a sudden.

Is there a bucket of blood hanging high in the auditorium rafters, waiting to be dropped

They knew trouble would come but expected it in degrees. Life so often arrives all of a sudden. And who knows which side you will find yourself on?

Anxietatea este, aÈ™adar, suferinÈ›a din cauza a ceea ce se va întâmpla, iar melancolia e suferinÈ›a din cauza a ceea ce s-a întâmplat.

Depression is the flaw in love. If you were married to someone and thought, Well, if my wife dies, I'll find another one, it wouldn't be love as we know it. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss, and that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

In depression, all that is happening in the present is the anticipation of pain in the future, and the present qua present no longer exists at all. Depression is a condition that is almost unimaginable to anyone who has not known it.

The best investors don't get persuaded by stock blips or charts. It's about staying ahead of the curve—anticipating changes in sentiment. You've got to anticipate what newspaper headlines will say next.

I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece. I don't even taste any of the other pieces, I just want to finish and throw the box away and not have to have it on my mind any more. I would rather either have it now or know I'll never have it so I don't have to think about it.

Scripts bore me. It's much more exciting not to know what's going to happen.

So you've gotten very close, you've shared a complete experience. And the idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting anyway. Never getting in is the most exciting, but after that waiting to get in is the most exciting.

There are moments in your life when you know that the sentence that will come next will change your life forever, although you realize, even as you are anticipating this sentence, that your life has already changed. Changed some time ago, and you simply didn't know it.

Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.

There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.