Quotes About Anticipation

As you see the opening get closer, you just can't get fast enough. And finally, just when you think you'll never get there, you see the opening right in front of you.

I try to remind myself when I feel great like this that there will be another terrible week coming someday.

The reason I am thinking so far in advance is because school is terribly lonely. I think I've said that before, but it's getting harder every day.

Todos tenían frases de canciones pop que tenían algo que ver con el futuro

It's nice to have things to look forward to.

I have taken all my finals for the semester, and it has been very busy, and I would have told you all about it, but it just doesn't seem as interesting as these other things that have to do with holidays.

And I saw Patrick and Alice not even care that they weren't kissing anybody because they were too excited talking about their futures.

And what my brother's face will look like on a football card, or what it will look like if it is never on a football card.

It's hard, too, because Patrick began every night really excited. He always said he felt free. And tonight was his destiny. And things like that. But by the end of that night, he just looked sad.

Think with the end in mind. Before you go on a trip, you determine your destination and plan out the best route. Before you plant a garden, you plan it out in your mind, possibly on paper. You create speeches on paper before you give them, you envision the landscaping in your yard before you landscape it. You design the clothes you make before you thread the needle.

You get so frightfully hungry as soon as you learn that there are no more meals coming.

the German today is like the June Bride. He knows he is going to get it, but he doesn't know how big it is gong to be.

The German today is like the June Bride. He knows he is going to get it, but he doesn't know how big it is going to be.

I am magnificently prepared for the long littleness of life. There is diddley-squat for me to look forward to. Zilch, zero, zip-all, sweet lipperty-pipperty nothing. The only thought that will give me the energy to carry on is that someone has a life which would be diminished by my departure from it.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

In a fight, do not do what you want to do, but what you judge your enemy least wants you to.

The future is a much bigger deal than the past

There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip

because he didn't want it going through regular departmental vetting procedures, not until he knew where it was leading and what it might uncover. He operated this way frequently; it was always better to begin low-profile and let the thing develop slowly, undistorted by the pressures of expectation.

Gut fand er, dass die Post gekommen war. Weniger gut fand er, dass sie aus dem Jahr 1957 stammte.

there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.

Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home.

The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.