Quotes About Anticipation

I'm not sure this will make sense to you but I felt as though I'd turned around to look in a different direction so that I no longer faced backward toward the past but forward toward the future. And now the question confronting me was this: What would the future be

Što ako do?em do kraja života i shvatim kako sam iz dana u dan o?ekivala ?ovjeka koji nikad nije došao? Postat ?u poput plesa?ice koja se od djetinstva priprema za predstavu u kojoj nikad ne?e nastupati.

How curious it is, what the future brings us. You must take care, Sayuri, never to expect too much.

There was no surer way to lose the confidence of an audience, or a jury, than by letting them think faster than yourself, so that they became aware of what you were going to say before you said it.

I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you comin' through the door.

to go, Pop. Every muscle is ready. WILLY [at the edge of the apron]: You realize what

ANN: Nobody was dressed so he drove over to the depot to pick up my brother. SUE: Oh, your brother's in? ANN: Yeah, they ought to be here any minute now. Will you have a cold drink? SUE: I will, thanks. Ann goes to table and pours. My husband. Too hot to drive me to beach.—Men are like little boys; for the neighbors they'll always cut the grass.

P...U...D...D...I...N...G Pudding, said Roger. They've kept some for us. She hasn't finished the word, said Dick. Titty was reading steadily on. H...E...A...D...S...End of word

In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear.

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.

we generally find pleasure to be not nearly so pleasant as we expected, and pain very much more painful.

To measure a man's happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall have a numerator but no denominator.

Most of our suffering lies in retrospect or anticipation.

Every separation is a foretaste of death while every new meeting a foretaste of life.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. Maybe many of us won't be here to greet her, but on a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her breathing.

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.

The nights are clear but suffused with sloth and sullen expectation.

b.] be prepared to be prepared.

In the next room Baby Kochamma heard the noise and came to find out what it was all about. She saw Grief and Trouble ahead, and secretly, in her heart of hearts, she rejoiced.

The time has come, the Walrus said. Perhaps things will become worse and then better. Perhaps there's a small god up in heaven readying herself for us. Another world is not only possible, she's on her way. Maybe many of us won't be here to greet her, but on a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her breathing.

Excitement Always Leads to Tears

Quand elles en eurent assez d'avoir attendu, les odeurs du dîner descendirent des rideaux et s'échappèrent par les fenêtres de l'hôtel pour aller danser sur la mer jusqu'au petit matin.

Not many noticed the passing of the friendly old birds. There was so much else to look forward to.

The end was nigh. She had been waiting for her father to die so her life could begin, but as we could all have told her it doesn't work like that. She knew that anyway. Really.