Quotes About Anticipation

He installed a mirror outside his study window so he could see guests coming up the drive before they saw him, allowing him time to brace himself or to hide.

Anxiety," he wrote, "is apprehension about future suffering—the fearful anticipation of an unbearable catastrophe one is hopeless to prevent." For Dr. W., the defining signature of anxiety, and what makes it more than a pure animal instinct, is its orientation toward the future.

If we expect to suffer, we are anxious," Darwin wrote in The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. "If we have no hope of relief, we despair.")

And as the hands of the clocks clicked to eight past one, the house awoke to the sudden and definite realization that now was the time. It had waited long enough. It was time to play.

In this next season of our lives, show us, Jesus, how to seek your kingdom first, above everything else. Rather than spending more money on ourselves, where would you have us invest our time, talent, and treasure; our energy, tears, and laughter? What new chapters of your story of redemption and restoration would you write through us? We pray with gratitude and anticipation, in your loving name. Amen.

For every one of us, living in this world means waiting for our end.

Le brouillard est ici un présage redouté mais l'éclair épelle la bonté universelle et durant les orages les parents suspendent aux arbres leurs enfants emmaillotés.

Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.

We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

Any time a new horror film comes out that looks appealing, I'm always excited to go see it.

It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.

Every time I get a script in my inbox, it's like a little Christmas present. It's so exciting to see what they've cooked up.

I hope that the next time you go to a concert, the band doesn't play the song you wanna hear! And instead, they just play songs off their new album!

I can't watch iceskating because the whole time I think they're going to fall! I get so uncomfortable.

Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them.

... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

They looked at each other. They weren't thinking anymore. The time for that had come and gone. Smashed smiles lay ahead of them. But that would be later. Lay Ter.

My dad always took to his heels when a nappy change was necessary. I am so much looking forward to our child. It is such a wonderfully exciting time right now.

I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.

I always tell Bobby he was up in the air so so long that I had had time to shower and change before he hit the ice.

You never get another first time. I just remember being excited and that feeling of "Wow my dream is really coming true".

Every time you start a project, you're hopeful that the critics receive it warmly.