Quotes About Anticipation

It's that season of unreasoning hope

It's no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking. If

Rejoice, for bad things are about to happen.

I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe.

We are living in the "not-yet" interval between the crowning and the actual reigning. We are living on the "not-yet" possessed part of His domain.

Her ?eye haz?r bulunan ve kimden ne gelebilece?ini bilen bir insan? sarsmak mümkün müdür?

Ya?amak, tabiat?n en küçük k?m?ldan??lar?n? sezerek, hayat?n sars?lmaz bir mant?k ile ak?p gidi?ini seyrederek ya?amak; herkesten daha çok, daha kuvvetli ya?ad???n?, bir ana bir ömür kadar çok hayat doldurdu?unu bilerek ya?amak... Ve bilhassa bütün bunlar? anlatacak bir insan?n mevcut oldu?unu dü?ünerek, onu bekleyerek ya?amak...

Bu alemin tezahürlerini d??ar? vermediklerine bak?p onlar?n manen ya?amad?klar?na hükmedecek yerde, en basit bir be?er tecessüsü ile, bu meçhul alemi merak etsek, belki hiç ummad???m?z ?eyler görmemiz, beklemedi?imiz zenginliklerle kar??la?mam?z mümkün olur. Fakat insanlar nedense daha ziyade ne bulacaklar?n? tahmin ettikleri ?eyleri ara?t?rmay? tercih ediyorlar.

You were just too young. And in the wrong place at the wrong time in my life." "A likely excuse. I haven't been 'too young' for some time, and it's taken you nine years to even kiss me again. At this rate, you'll only advance to ravishing me when I'm forty." He dearly hoped he'd be ravishing her at forty. And thirty-five and twenty-nine and the day after tomorrow. Or today. That would certainly move his process along.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

As Eisenhower said (in a very different context to be sure, but the point applies here as well), "plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

Stupidity is expecting figs in winter, or children in old age.

You can live here as you expect to live there.

The Art of Living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen - and is not apt to fall.

As they that long after figs in winter when they cannot be had; so are they that long after children, before they be granted them.

To wait until the emergency is to be too late.

Remember that as it is a shame to be surprised if the fig-tree produces figs, so it is to be surprised if the world produces such and such things of which it is productive

XXIX. As they that long after figs in winter when they cannot be had; so are they that long after children, before they be granted them. XXX.

and to foresee things a long way off

It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.

Sometimes I arrive too early. I rush, and some people cling longer to life than expected.

expectation isn't the same as desire

Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.

I've been prepared for almost anything; except absence, except silence.