Quotes About Anticipation

This is the best night of my life. And it's going to get better.

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

I don't look at my life too much. I'm always looking forward, not backward.

On the whole, as the morbid & mucilaginous monkey said when he climbed up to the top of the Palm-tree & found no fruit there - one can't depend upon dates.

Worry is a special form of fear. To create worry, humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination, and fuel it with emotion.

If you do this, what do you want to happen? and If you do this, what do you think will happen?

I'll be damned if I'm going to miss the overture and finale when I've payed good money for it... You can go, but I'm staying.

En toen keek ook kleine Quint op van zijn PS. Hij vroeg aan de clowns: 'Weten jullie wanneer eetzuster Gera komt?' De cliniclowns wisten niet wanneer eetzuster Gera kwam. 'Oh,' zei Quint toen, alsof hij Poetin was, 'ga dan maar weg.

Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that shadow, or the light).' As a matter of fact, I almost never wait, that is, unless I can see that the thing will be right in a few minutes. But if I must wait an hour for the shadow to move, or the light to change, or the cow to graze in the other direction, then I put up my camera and go on, knowing that I am likely to find three subjects just as good in the same hour.

The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.

Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.

Do not rejoice over what has not yet happened.

Between every move of a step of life towards coming after that step, carries and displays the burden of unconscious waiting; thus, every second defines that, as well.

Waiting earns two results; disappointment or enjoyment.

Waiting means, one gambles every minute of its life.

T]wo Americans re-encountering each other after a certain time in a foreign land are supposed to clamber up their nearest lampposts and wait tremblingly for it all to blow over.

I remember a little later wondering why things always turn out to be diametrically opposed to what you expect them to be. It's no good even trying to predict what this opposite will be because it always fools you and turns out to be the opposite of that , if you see what I mean. If you think this is geometrically impossible all I can say is that you don't know my life

I imagined there must be hundreds and thousands and millions of people quiet in the dark out there, waiting with baited breath for me, up on that stage and bathed in colored lights, to say something. I opened my mouth and—hooray—they were going to listen.

To find someone to giggle with I place just below finding someone to flirt with and just above the ability to knit. Those are the only three things to do while waiting to go on.

HSPs have evolved so that we especially relish a good outcome and figure out more than others how to make it happen. I imagine that we can plan an especially good birthday celebration, anticipating the happiness it will bring.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of troubles

We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

waited for her under the maple trees