Quotes About Anticipation

It felt like I was living a life I hadn't had a chance to anticipate.

I felt the cool air against my skin and the tang of Christmassy anticipation in the air I breathed.

And I thought that even before I had sex with him.

The author and screenwriter William Goldman says that "the key to all story endings is to give the audience what it wants, but not in the way it expects.

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

Sometimes, anticipation feels better than fulfillment.

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

There was a naughty grin on her face and she said, "Wait. You'll get an erection and then what will I do?

see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot: Follow your spirit, and upon this charge Cry "God for Harry, England, and Saint George!

No one spoke all the way to Hollywood.

the gruesome opposite of tearing into gift wrap.

Anyone could see it all coming and no one could possibly stop it and that was the beautiful thing. Friday night was open wide and writ in stone

We don't seek anyone out. We just wait and hope that people who want the same things come along.

Know your enemy. The more you know about them, the less easily they can surprise you. And by studying them you might identify a weakness or vulnerability.

But our data, along with other research, point to new ways of understanding saving among low- and moderate-income Americans. Many of these families are committed, effective savers; they're just not saving in the ways financial advisors might imagine. They put aside money for expenses they anticipate in the next few months, not the distant future.

chess games are rarely lost by oversights but rather by "the failure to apprehend certainties".

The future just isn't what it used to be

Oh, people will come, Ray," Phillip intones, doing his best James Earl Jones. "People will most definitely come.

As soon as he saw her face, he knew what it would look like when she ended it.

Before you're a mom you don't know what gear is going to be relevant.

I started crying the other day just thinking that the baby is going to leave me soon! You have this relationship with this person in your belly and it's really amazing.

And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing.

My toes are going to come," -Mariann The Night Owl

There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.