Quotes About Anticipation

Until the time is right, disappear we will.

It's very original, no doubt, but not for a hot evening. What I need is some trollop.

She got very tired, so tired that even her toys could no longer amuse her. You would wonder at that if I had time to describe to you one half of the toys she had. But then, you wouldn't have the toys themselves, and that makes all the difference: you can't get tired of a thing before you have it.

It was a profound pleasure to her not to know what was coming next, provided some one whom she loved did.

it's not the droid we're expecting, is it?

Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope

What writers, artists, scientists and philosophers say today is indicative of future rather than current developments

Even when there was no doubt about the invitation he always half expected that there would be some hitch or other. He was never quite certain of his welcome.

The trouble you're expecting never happens; it's always something that sneaks up the other way.

we can guard ourselves against the unexpected tragedies

should give thought to those future days.

That night I was so excited over my success I could hardly sleep

On ne le trouve pas quand on le cherche; il vient à nous quand nous ne l'attendons pas.

He was the sort of child people imagine their children will be, before they have children.

We could understand a story as simply a series of such expectation/resolution moments.

One feels such love for the little ones, such anticipation that all that is lovely in life will be known by them, such fondness for that set of attributes manifested uniquely in each: mannerisms of bravado, of vulnerability, habits of speech and mispronouncement and so forth; the smell of the hair and head, the feel of the tiny hand in yours—and then the little one is gone! Taken!

How good are markets in predicting real-world developments? Reading the record, it is striking how many calamities that I anticipated did not in fact materialise. Financial markets constantly anticipate events, both on the positive and on the negative side, which fail to materialise exactly because they have been anticipated. It is an old joke that the stock market has predicted seven of the last two recessions. Markets are often wrong.

The future will be better tomorrow

One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected.

When my time is up," I would tell friends, "my dance card is going to be full.

The miraculous moment is the moment when anticipation dissolves into NOTHING. It is the moment when we are relieved of anticipation, man's customary misery, of the anticipation that enslaves, that subordinates the present moment to some anticipated result. Precisely in the miracle, we are thrust from our anticipation of the future into the presence of the moment, of the moment illuminated by a miraculous light, the light of the sovereignty of life delivered from its servitude

The announcement of a vast project is always its betrayal.

Sen bir aylak, bir uyurgezersin, bir istiridyesin. Tan?mlar saatlere, günlere göre deÄŸiÅŸiyor ama ta??d?klar? anlam az çok belli: YaÅŸaman?n, harekete geçmenin, bir ÅŸey yapman?n pek sana göre olmad???n? hissediyorsun; sadece sürüp gitmek istiyorsun, sadece bekleyiÅŸi ve unutuÅŸu istiyorsun.

why count the buses? probably because they're recognizable and regular:they cut up time, they punctuate the background noise; ultimately, they're foreseeable