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Quotes About Anticipation

I panic every time I put out a record. I think every artist does.
~ Madonna Ciccone
We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
~ Bernard Baruch
I would much rather always look forward to the time when I am going to ride in a carriage, than to look back on the time when I used to.
~ Josh Billings
The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.
~ Marilyn Manson
The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.
~ James A. Baldwin
Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer
~ Jenny Han
The first thing I would do when I saw Bobby coming down at me was to say a little prayer if I had time. I'm sure I wasn't the only goalie who did that.
~ Johnny Bower
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
~ Cesare Pavese
We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been.
~ Sophocles
In football two days is a long time and a week is a very long time.
~ Steve McClaren
What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace?
~ Fanny Kemble
They spend their time looking forward to the past.
~ John Osborne
The darkness ahead was not impenetrable.
~ Anna Katharine Green
the two dresses she'd brought with her in case of—well, just in case—stood in the corner of her closet like guests who have come to the wrong party and are backing out the door.
~ Anna Quindlen
Sometimes things have to come when you're ready for them.
~ Anna Quindlen
ha! They will get to that place soon enough.
~ Anna Quindlen
Alas! how far the promise of anticipation exceeds the pleasure of possession!
~ Anne Bronte
You don't know what happiness lies before you yet, you are now only in the commencement of your journey.
~ Anne Bronte
governess was not in yet; then
~ Anne Bronte
I think I am ready for that. I think I am ready to be met.
~ Anne Enright
Once again St. Nicholas Day Has even come to our hideaway; It won't be quite as fun, I fear, As the happy day we had last year. Then we were hopeful, no reason to doubt That optimism would win the bout, And by the time this year came round, We'd all be free, and safe and sound. Still, let's not forget it's St. Nicholas Day, Though we've nothing left to give away. We'll have to find something else to do: So everyone please look in their shoe!
~ Anne Frank
What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.
~ Anne Frank
if I only knew how much longer we had to put up with each other's company, I'd start counting the days.
~ Anne Frank
Everyone here is dreading the great terror known as winter.
~ Anne Frank