Quotes About Anticipation

Drama demands the reversal of expectation, but in such a way that the first surprise is followed by an immediate recognition of inevitability.

He looks into his Dixie cup and looks back up as if surprised at what he found there. The future, maybe.

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

I am she who adorn'd herself and folded her hair expectantly,My truant lover has come, and it is dark.

I like space/openness in poems/poetry, and having the poems grouped into sections gives the reader a chance to breathe, to relax, to reflect, to meditate, to gather strength, excitement, anticipation to continue forward through the book.

Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up.

Think about all the tomorrows of your life.

Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Out job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them.

He gave me a look of mingled anticipation, curiosity, and compassion, like a cat with a captive bird in its claws.

La prudencia es futuro, prevención, anticipación responsable, deseo razonado. Está diseñada para evaluar el antes de, para que no tengamos que arrepentirnos del después de. No es un freno de emergencia asfixiante, sino autorregulación, juicio y lucidez orientada a no lastimar ni lastimarse. Kant decía: "La prudencia aconseja, la moral ordena". Una asertividad sin prudencia tarde o temprano se transforma en agresión.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

Sea of upturned faces.

Ivan and Willis, watching as Sadie panted, stood up, and then lay down again. "It won't be long now." Willis's eyes sparkled. He was no doubt excited, even though this was probably old hat for him.

The moment I see her, there's a rumbling in my chest, and my mouth is as dry as a desert. This was something sure to be crammed full of warmth secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world.

Some people skate to the puck. I skate to where the puck is going to be.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been

When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

Adventures are funny things. They always begin with the unexpected, but they always end wit the promise of adventures yet to comestoriai

i like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which i also keep handy.

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it

woman told her on her first visit. "Otherwise I'll never hear you and you'll stand out here for days." "Hold your horses, I'm here, I'm here," a familiar voice calls now, from the other side of the door. When it flies open, Clara momentarily expects, as always, to find herself looking at an adolescent tomboy with red pigtails