Quotes About Anticipation

We must come with great expectation--for we will experience just what we expect.

Tomorrow, a new day dawns.

The hands of the watch stood at five past eight. The only kind of death that can be accurately predicted to the minute had taken place, the death that takes its victim, … feet foremost through the floor, Into an empty space. 2 THREE TIMES IN THE past thirty-five years I had seen her name in print.

Fate represents the fulfillment of man's expectations of himself.

We had a solid structure and format in place, seasoned people involved in the production of the show, and audience popularity that was unprecedented. We knew we were onto something, but we had no idea that it would last as long as it did. That surprised all of us--but it was a wonderful surprise.

Happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

We gotta wait for your dad to park the car. Then we gotta hear the Epic Saga.

Why is being in the military like a blow job? The closer you get to discharge, the better you feel.

If I have to err, it's on the side of assuming the worst. This way, if I'm wrong, I can always apologize. Or send flowers. You err on the other side, the flowers will be coming to you.

You're next.

My heart went into triple time, like that burst you get when you realize the ball is going over the heads of all the outfielders.

Life is so much easier when you just give people what they expect.

Every night for almost as long as I can remember, I go to bed and I ask the voice in my head, "Is it time yet?" And every time, the voice says, "No. Not yet." [...] that night, the voice did not say "No." That night, the voice said, "Almost. Be ready." And then... And then Aneesa. Aneesa. [...] Tonight, I am afraid to ask the voice. I am afraid of what it will say. I am afraid to hear "Yes" and I am afraid to hear "No.

In times of uncertainty or danger, when the net is cast, plan ahead or plan to think fast!

But knowing what we want means, in essence, being able to anticipate accurately how one choice or another will make us feel, and that is no simple task.

Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.

Against all our historically-minded culture (out of compassion for our present state), the only excitement is to be found in anticipation (out of impertinence towards our future state).

most of life occurs in the hollows between expectation and reality.

Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future...

I hope to get out before they start football next year.

But that night, the future was still blank. The film had not been shot, the bromide was still in its brown glass bottle. Nothing had been fixed.

...trout that doesn't think two jumps and several runs ahead of the average fisherman is mighty apt to get fried.

I'm quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early '90s, which I based on the early seasons of 'Cops' and on the amazing stuff I had read about happening on Japanese shows and the British 'Big Brother'.

I was always the kid who wanted Christmas to not come, because I realized at a pretty early age that no matter what you got, there's always a little bit of a letdown. It's like, 'Oh, gee, I wanted two ponies, not one.'