Quotes About Anticipation

Sometimes we've done all the preparation we could for something; there's nothing else we can do—but we still sit around in fear. This is the point when you must use the antidote to fear: you must make a decision to have faith, knowing you've done all you can to prepare for whatever you're fearing, and that most fears in life rarely come to fruition.

Note that past performance does not guarantee future results. Instead, I am providing you the historical data here to discuss and illustrate the underlying principles.

Her happiness, like that of most of us, was ever in the future,—never reached but always coming. 

They two men cut the door, and took the box, and opened it, — and when they'd opened it, they didn't get the swag. Where was the swag?

CHAPTER XLVII 'BUT THERE IS SOME ONE

The day after Ussher

Up to this moment she had formed no future hope. At

CHAPTER LXX AT LAST

He was incapable of anticipating to-morrow's griefs.

Already she fancied she could see the shadow of tomorrow faintly clouding his face...

La smetta di frequentare il passato, cerchi di frequentare il futuro.

There was indeed fear in hoping

think I'd prefer tomorrow morning.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

it is the function of a poet to relate not things that have happened, but things that may happen

Moreover, since, in general, all those things which delight us when present usually do so also when we anticipate them or remember them, then even anger is pleasant, as Homer said in describing it as 'sweeter by far than trickling honey'.* After all, people do not feel anger for those they think beyond the reach of retaliation, nor do they feel anger (or relatively little) for those who have far more power than them.

Readers of a certain class are apt to call good the plot of that story in which you can't tell what is going to happen next. But in some of the most tedious novels ever written you can't tell what is going to happen next--and you don't care a fig what is going to happen next.

Until an effort is made to satisfy that wish, the sense of uneasy waiting for something to start which has not started will remain to disturb the peace of the soul.

He was prepared, he thought, for any wonder. The only thing he had never expected was the utterly commonplace.

Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.

Could we go into your room? she asked. I knew it. I knew it, he said, spinning around and sliding quickly toward his door. It's finally happend, just like in dreams. An intelligent, beautiful woman is going to declare her undying affection

He was prepared, he thought, for any wonder. The only thing he had never expected was the utterly commonplace. The

Beneath the palm trees Lora waited, watching the sea. Clyde's boat was already visible as a tiny notch on the far horizon

The choice had been made. The bomb was already looking ahead, to the terminus of its new trajectory.