Quotes About Anticipation

The space for it existed in me. I knew it the same as other people, but, strangely, in advance.

I can see it's all there. All there, but nothing yet done. I can see it in the eyes, all there already in the eyes.

Dans l'ombre de ces villas, elles se regardent pour plus tard, elles croient vivre un roman, elles ont déjà les longues penderies pleines de robes à ne savoir qu'en faire, collectionnées comme le temps, la longue suite des jours d'attente.

Anton and I went to see her in her office in Soho. It was less than a fortnight before I gave birth to Ema so getting me there was a huge undertaking, like crating and transporting a sick elephant.

Expectations are merely disappointments under construction.') As

You try to disaster-proof your life. But the thing that causes all the trouble is something you'd never even thought about.

We usually know a lover is on the way well before he gets here. As often as we hear stories like I met my partner when I least expected to meet anyone, on some level, we know that's nonsense. A woman in touch with herself can sense the coming of things, and the come of love is like a deer running through a forest on the way to your door. We can feel a love approaching; and when we are in touch with the Goddess, we prepare ourselves in advance.

Until a day came when he said, Marie, you know how we've been waiting for the big pain to come? I think it's here. I think this is it. I think it's been here all along.

The people who were downstairs drinking ran upstairs for a better view of the upcoming fight.

When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain.

Children seem to think that every pleasant thing has to be a surprise.

Well, but how deeply I regret any sadness you have suffered and how grateful I am in anticipation of any good you have enjoyed. That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it?

If we educate them well, we give them the means to create a future that we cannot anticipate. If we cheat them, they will have the relatively meager future we have prepared for them.

Glory had rehearsed angry outbursts in anticipation of his arrival. She began to hope he would come so she could tell him exactly what she thought.

He had a way of anticipating memories he particularly didn't want to have.

there's no pleasure in work if you don't break a sweat. Out in the fields you feel any little breeze. You know it's coming, you hear it in the trees, you almost can't wait for it, and then there it is, like a cold drink of water.

And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.

I cannot wait an eternity for happiness.

his eyes, he thought that in a few hours he, Lucrecia, and Fonchito would be crossing the skies, leaving behind the thick clouds

Je veux voir le film, grosse bête.»

I shall feel safer when we are through Knightsbridge.

I looked like I wasn't at a cocktail party but an airport, waiting for my life to take off. Infinitely delayed.

It's the final countdown,' " he sang