Quotes About Anticipation

sense the story like an approaching storm

Even if things are sometimes difficult there must always be good things to look forward to. Seeing you will be one of the big good things for me.

Miss Mitford talks of coming to town for a day, and of bringing Flush with her, as soon as the weather settles, and to-day looks so like it that I have mused this morning on the possibility of breaking my prison doors and getting into the next room. Only there is a forbidding north wind, they say.

She had anticipated that the cultural disconnect would be vast, and she was only just coming to understand how vast it might be.

I wait at the airlock, Gabe on my left side, Patty on my right. Captain Wainwright is three steps in front of us, Richard hovering like an anxious blind date in my head.

She could already imagine the dexterity with which Mallory's arched dark eyebrows would rise, and the answer which didn't need saying.

Kit drew breath in an agony of anticipation, felt Mehiel's surrender in the coldness of his brands.

Every plan had its flow. But sometimes, living in the future was damned cool. Even if she couldn't get a rocket car.

Perhaps there is prophecy in the stage after all.

Twill soon be over, and then we can all get good and thoroughly drunk.

I had seen her in the shadows. She had been waiting for some time.

Salisbury pushed the heavy door a little more open and came forward, the sleeves of his black robe rippling in the cold breeze from the window.

Thinking about the future was really doing a number on me.

Breath held, I will her to speak without making me ask for it, but Riel plays this game better than I do.

Everyone was waiting for something: an arrival, a departure. It made a pleasing sort of allegory.

The expectation of an injury can hurt as much as the injury itself.

Oxford smiled and Kit still knew him well enough to read the pleasure of a chess player who has successfully anticipated his opponent.

It was no other than he had expected, but he could play out the game.

If I could see her, she could probably see me. If she was looking, and maybe even if she wasn't. And I expected her to be looking.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

But something that should have been going on had not gone on: something had not happened.

Non esiste una parola peggiore di "potenziale". È la storia di tutte le cose che non saranno mai

When Robert brought to the table a covered plate and lifted the lid with an excited flourish, Tim played second fiddle to a cake for the first time in his life.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.