Quotes About Anticipation

A relationship is a game of chess.

So I'm biding my time, like a surfer waiting for a wave. I'm pretty good at surfing, as it happens, and I know the wave will come. When the moment is right, I'll get Demeter's attention. She'll look at my stuff, everything will click, and I'll start riding my life. Not paddling, paddling, paddling, like I am right now.

You know, this always happens. Whenever I go away, I always think I'll come back to mountains of exciting posts, with parcels and telegrams and letters full of scintillating news - and I'm always disappointed. In fact, I really think someone should set up a company called holidaypost.com which you would pay to write you loads of exciting letters, just so you had something to look forward to when you got home.

But, come on, even the waiting list for that new Prada bag was only a year. No school can be more exclusive than a limited-edition Prada bag, surely?

He said that he and Mum had often talked about the kind of man I would marry, and they'd always disagreed on everything except one thing - he'll have to be on his toes. Then he looked at Luke, who obligingly got up and turned a pirouette, and everyone roared with laughter.

didn't dare to peer into the future.

knight in shining armor is not a realistic option. But there's a part of me that wants a huge, amazing romance. I want passion. I want to be swept off my feet. I want an earthquake, or a Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I don't know, a huge whirlwind Ã¢â'¬Â¦ something exciting. Sometimes I feel as if there's this whole new, thrilling life waiting for me out there, and if I can just—

A waiter offers me a glass of champagne and I take two. One for now, one to put under my chair for the boring bits.

I pity you, flinging at me the very insults each man here will fling at you so soon.

Long have we lived in shadows and shuddering: today I think our future is opening out.

no skill in the world, nothing human can penetrate the future.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly one you can never have.

It is all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it's no good at all if you don't have a plan for tomorrow.

So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?

Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular.

Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.

We never live but we are always in the expectation of living.

I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.

Our greatest motivation in life comes from not knowing the future.

This isn't goodbye. It's "see you later".

Don't expect the unexpected. Let the unexpected expect you.

If u want to work in Corporate, then u should know how to play Chess.

You can predict your future life, only predict not assure.