Quotes About Anticipation

She was the book thief without words. Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like the rain.

It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.

They accumulated, hour by hour, like sweet and sour dreams, waiting to happen.

As they walked back to Himmel Street, Rudy forewarned her. One day, Liesel, he said, you'll be dying to kiss me.

The question is what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?

you could set your watch to those hoofbeats, too, and your life to the hand of Tommy—as he led the mule fondly home, to the months and the girl to come.

The question is, what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying? Personally

It's a lot easier, she realised, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.

Our permanent address is tommorrow.

One of the biggest mistakes we can make is to start grieving over things that haven't even happened yet.

They're always looking forward to going places they're just coming back from, or regretting doing things they haven't yet done. They say hello when they mean goodbye.

All rooms are waiting rooms. Your room is a waiting room. You are waiting, I am waiting. Everything is getting nearer to being over.

When you are drawing, you are always one or two marks ahead. You're always thinking, 'After what I'm doing here I'll go there, and there.' It's like chess or something. In drawing I've always thought economy of means was a great quality - not always in painting, but always in drawing.

The British Government waited uneasily for some intimation of when the German blow in the West might fall.

for him seems to have been the expected attack on London. As

Even in expecting, one leaps away from the possible and gets a footing in the real. It is for its reality that what is expected is expected. By the very nature of expecting, the possible is drawn into the real, arising from it and returning to it.

Sometimes when we see that we only have a few pages left we slow down, savoring each word, staving off the inevitable.

Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.

That is the excitement of life, he said when he was finished. The not knowing. It is often best not to know.

Sometimes one does wonder if one lives quietly from choice or if in reality one is merely waiting for something that may never come.

when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life

Holmes pensively; 'but our expedition of to-night will solve them all. Ah, here is a four-wheeler, and Miss Morstan is inside. Are you all ready? Then we had better go down, for it is a little past the hour.' I picked up my hat and my heaviest stick, but I observed that Holmes took his revolver from his drawer and slipped it into his pocket. It was clear that he thought that our night's work might be a serious one. Miss Morstan was muffled in a dark

Siempre hay que buscar una posible alternativa y estar preparado para ella.

The past and the present are within my field of inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer.