Quotes About Anticipation

Thomas remembered the envelope in his pocket, a thing he'd almost forgotten about until now. His fingers twitched to pull it out and read it. No one said anything. Newt's expression darkened.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

ANTICIPATE CONTINUOUSLY. NOW PRECISELY PRE-POSITION MYSELF FIRST FOR SAFETY, THEN FOR TRACTION AND THEN FOR THE ABSOLUTE CLEAREST VIEW OF THE VANISHING POINT.

Do you want to come in? Take a deep breath. Everything is about to happen.

Long lead times are required for effective action.

The world tilted, but he had anticipated and prepared for it and the tilt affected him favorably, especially his internal demeanor, which was one of a cheerful engagement with reality.

Sometimes dreaming is even better than making plans" -Houndsley

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

The mind constructs small-scale models of reality to anticipate events, to reason, and to underlie explanation.

You ready to be fucked, Jack?

There's a shark. Following the ship.' I tried not to look, but couldn't help it. I saw a flash of dirty white down in the green. We walked back to the deck chairs. Walter, we'll have to wait. Till the moon comes up.' I guess we better have a moon.' I want to see that fin. That black fin. Cutting the water in the moonlight.

We are to save ourselves for the Bridegroom, as a bride saves herself for her husband.

In framing a system which we wish to last for ages, we shd. not lose sight of the changes which ages will produce. [James Madison in the U.S. Constitutional Convention, June 26, 1787. The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, ed. Max Farrand (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966), 1:422.]

Excellent. It looks like we've got it all worked out for me to join a group of men sworn to kill me so we can face off with a dragon that melts stone with his breath." She grinned. "And Stagger used to complain that I never planned ahead.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow.

A true Master Player plays as thought the game is already in the past, according to a script whose every detail is known prior to the play itself.

A finite player is trained not only to anticipate every future possibility, but to control the future, to prevent it from altering the past. This is the finite player in the mode of seriousness with its dread of unpredictable consequence.

A prediction is but an explanation in advance.

Power is concerned with what has already happened; strength with what has yet to happen.

What is your future, and mine, becomes ours. We prepare each other for surprise.

Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.

They must wait. The gates were closed. The keys that could open them were in other hands.

Kaz drifted off, lured by the thought of a book he hadn't yet met.

Hij komt... De Schedelkoning... Er komt een grote aanval. De avond van de equinox... De Schedelkoning komt nog deze avond! - Livia