Quotes About Anticipation

Unsaid was her conviction that all this was in preparation for some future endeavor. But what?

I . . . cannot fall asleep because there is a foreign feeling in my veins, it is the feeling of finally getting what I wanted, and the feeling is colder than I ever thought it would be.

Those cuts on my ribs are because I am trying to open gills before the flood comes.

If anybody had the grounds to anticipate systematic brutality, it seems logical that it would be those most immediately endangered.Yet those with the most at stake are in fact often the least prone to recognize their peril.

My Date was waiting for me at the kitchen door, ears perked, tail wagging and bits of wicker clinging to his nose and mouth" --Abby Shaw, Sucker Punched

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of how shall I say, I dont know.

Better hope deferred than none.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Expect everything, and anything seems nothing. Expect nothing, and anything seems everything.

You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con.

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw be

None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed.

Presumptuous bastard,' Tak said. 'Sunset? He might at least wait and see if there's a tomorrow morning.

Clouds out of control decoct anticipation. What use can any of us have for two moons? The miracle of order has run out and I am left in an unmiraculous city where anything may happen.

Forewarned is forearmed...

He who does not look forward remains behind.

Speak again with Messer Simone and fish up what you can. Fair weather or foul, it's the part of wisdom to be prepared.