Quotes About Anticipation

It is difficult to escape the focus of our own attention–difficult to consider what it is we may not be considering–and this is one of the reasons why we so often mispredict our emotional responses to future events.

We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy. Rather

Among life's cruellest truths is this one: wonderful things are especially wonderful the first time they happen, but their wonderfulness wanes with repetition.

On se prépare à la jouissance du siècle, et, le moment venu, elle a un goût de Fernet Branca. Sur ce point comme sur quelques autres, Julia a raison : ne jamais investir dans la promesse du plaisir. Tout de suite ou pas du tout.

Contate le vostre pagine, ragazzi, contate... anche i romanzieri lo fanno. [...] Contate le pagine... Si comincia meravigliandosi del numero di pagine lette, e poi si arriva a spaventarsi del poco che rimane da leggere. Solo 50 pagine! Vedrete... Non c'è nulla di più dolce di questa tristezza: Guerra e pace, due grossi tomi... e solo 50 pagine da leggere. Uno rallenta, rallenta, ma niente da fare... Natasha finisce per sposare Pierre Bezuchov, ed è la fine.

It is a truism that no profession welcomes the end of the work week with more anticipation than teachers.

the further we are from our last disaster, the closer we are to our next.

awaiting a departure order.

The further we are from the last disaster, the closer we are to the next.

As one philosopher noted, the human brain is an "anticipation machine," and "making future" is the most important thing it does.

In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end.

Yet we can reasonably hope that our ideas, which wait up ahead, will make a clearing for desire.

Some things in life are worth waiting for.

There was something much greater she needed to feed her soul, and perhaps one day soon she would go...

Finally (Evangeline) whispered, "I wish that I had been more prepared." "We prepare all of our lives for such moments," Dr. Raphael said, crossing his arms and looking at me with a critical gaze. "When the time comes, we can only expect that we have learned enough to succeed.

It is as if all four of them are waiting something out, as if none of them wants the night to end. Morning has sprouted, pale and winking, by the time they say goodbye.

There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.

What could possibly go wrong?

You start the day you think it will play out the way you saw in your head but then you discover the day is mostly just dread It's not like what I read

Preparing for war, as was well known in other lands but perhaps not then in that one, is usually a self-fulfilling precaution.

il valait mieux prévenir que guérir.

Antes que me llamen, yo les responderé

in training helps to take some of the surprise out of it when the real situation arises.

I like the adventures because you know that when they say, "I've got a plan," and then they tell you, you know it's not going to work. And when they say, "I've got a plan," and they don't tell you, you know it is going to work, and it's all very exciting. I thought real life might be like that for a while, so I didn't tell anybody what I wanted to happen, but it didn't make any difference. I knew I was kiddin' meself.