Quotes About Anticipation

When you look for the bad, expecting it, you will get it. When you know you will find the good—you will get that....

Girl, where were you last night? I waited up until Arsenio was over.

It was predictable, of course, but now that a date had been fixed, March 12th, it was as if I had been strolling absentmindedly and banged into a door.

Como tudo é suave, pensei, quando o dia está bonito e todas as coisas boas parecem estar esperando só por você.

Do you have your book?" "No, it's not out yet." "A copy of the last one you wrote?" "Yes." "Take it and sit here, pretend to be reading." I obeyed in a daze. Tina grabbed a book, too, and assumed the same pose, saying to Imma: Take a picture of me.

Vorsorge ist besser als das Nachsehen zu haben.

brigitte wants to have her future made. she cannot produce it herself.

The best things in life are unexpected — because there were no expectations.

One lives in the naïve notion that later there will be more room than in the entire past.

One lives in the naive notion that "later" there will be more room than in the entire past.

Quando l'amore si trasforma in attesa dell'amore non siamo più in grado di capire cosa sentiamo veramente

Do you think it's going to rain?" I asked. "Yes. Why?" My heart quickened. "I don't know," I said. Then I realized I wanted it to rain because maybe Ivan and his family would come back to Budapest a day early and Ivan might call me. I knew there were a lot of flaws in this reasoning. But my body didn't know.

But I had never doubted that, when I got back to school, I would find an email from him, explaining everything. It was not, after all, conceivable that there was no explanation, or that the explanation could come from anyone else, or that it could come in any way other than email, since that was how everything had always happened between us.

The train came into sight, rumbling closer, bringing the feeling of aliveness and plenitude inherent to incoming trains.

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

Francis ascended the stairs without slowing, calling for Marcus and Andrea before he'd reached the top. Then he was gone. If he'd clocked Jeff at all, it was only to verify that someone was behind the desk.

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.

I think there is writing genius as well—which consists primarily, I think, of the ability to place oneself in the shoes of one's audience; to assume only what they assume; to anticipate what they anticipate; to explain what they need explained; to think what they must be thinking; to feel what they must be feeling.

Mi affretto di dirti che aspetto la luna.

Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.

I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.

I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.

At the sight of him, I was clutched by a feeling like that precarious moment just past the top of a roller coaster's highest hill when gravity takes hold and the car barrels downward.