Quotes About Anticipation

One of my strongly held beliefs is that the best of all things is yet to come. Now, that is why I'm never bothered about anything that I have lost. And so I urge you too, never mind whatever that you've lost in the past. For surely, the best of all things is yet to come. -Emeasoba George

You should not thank God only for what he has done for you already. Yes! you should equally thank him in advance for what he is yet to do for you. I mean, dare to thank God in anticipation. Moreover, thank him (God) for your past life, your present life and the future ahead of you. -Emeasoba George

The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.

You have to visualize a second or two ahead of your car what line you are taking, what you are going to do, before you get there because it comes too fast.

Having always lived in fear of being surprised by the worst, I have tried in every circumstance to get a head start, flinging myself into misfortune long before it occurred.

Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it, this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What do do? where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.

A foretold misfortune, when at last it occurs, is ten, is a hundred times harder to endure than one we did not expect. All during our apprehensions, we lived through it in advance, and when it happens these past torments are added to the present ones, and together they form a mass whose weight is intolerable.

A man who sees too far, who is contemporary with the whole future, can no longer act or even move. . . .

As a general rule, men expect disappointment:

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.

He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.

All people and all men are filled with a kind of premonition, and everyone whose vital organs are not paralyzed faces with shuddering expectation the approaching future which will utter the redeeming word.

At the rate things are going here, all of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee.

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

ainda hoje e apesar do 25 de Abril, Portugal é uma grande véspera; Portugal é a grande véspera das vésperas de tudo quanto vai sendo adiado.

I dreaded going to the farm, but when I arrived there, it was very much better than I expected. Things one dreads usually are: it's only the things we look forward to that go all wrong.

She distracted him by pulling her gift for him out from under the bed. It was two-tiered and beautifully wrapped, with an exquisite card she had made herself—she was an artist, after all. He read the message inside, felt a catch in

She shifted in her chair, eyeing her front door with trepidation as she began to wonder if something might be wrong. What if he'd been hurt somewhere—if he'd been in an automobile accident or, more bizarre but nonetheless

Hope is the future lined in gold

Tonight?" Hope asked.

By six-twenty she'd begun to fear that he had been tied up longer than expected. The switchboard was off; he couldn't get through if he tried.

Looking back I can see that there have been no breaks from one departure to the next; I start planning again before we've even arrived back home.

My travels inevitably begin with copious research and planning. I began this kind of planning long ago when I was very young and anxious to hit the road. Hours were spent pouring over junior encyclopedias memorizing the names of exotic-sounding cities---Addis, Ababa, Samarkand, Damascus. Lengthy lists were written detailing the most minute necessities: three pairs of socks, two pencils. spare batteries, rope.