Quotes About Anticipation

So much of the war is sitting around and doing nothing, waiting for somebody else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left it doesn't seem worth starting even a train of thought.

The colonel had a single vice—whiskey—and he looked forward to the anesthetic burn of the Kentucky bourbon with sublime anticipation.

Next time, he thinks. The two best words in the English language.

Y2K was the dud of all duds.

When Shelly announced she was pregnant in the summer of 1974, everyone took a gulp of air. Maybe this would help?

He was always wondering when the other shoe would drop and Shelly would go into attack mode.

Waiting for nothing, that is what kills the heart of a man, isn't it?

So when will be the time to get on the train? I think.....a little bit almost quite very soon and not long.

Waiting for nothing, that is what kills the heart of a man, isn't it?

Word had spread that the foreigner was arriving.

So … when will it be the time for the getting on the train?' 'I think … a little bit almost quite very soon, and not long.

There was hope and fearful excitement in the new.

The people are waiting more than one hour already. If you are not with us, they would still be waiting, but waiting for nothing only. Waiting for nothing, that is what kills the heart of a man, isn't it? Now the people are waiting for something. Waiting for you, they are.

Outside on the street early evening glowed on every face, as if the whole world was blushing to think what the night would bring.

The touch was exactly what the touch of a lover's hand should be: familiar, yet exciting as a whispered promise.

Whatever it was, I meant to take her up on it. I meant to go there, and look for her. But

The stillness was so complete that I could hear myself swallowing. They wanted me to give them something, and they expected it to be good.

I did feel like they were telling me that something like that was going to happen. Not specifically - not that planes were going to be flown into the World Trade Center or anything like that - but in the general sense.

My world view is that it can all go to hell in an instant, and you have to be ready for it. That's pretty much the central theme running through my work. It's about people's awareness of how uncertain life can be and their trying to guard against that.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.

I love Louboutins and Jimmy Choos, but I've got pairs I've never worn, because I'm still waiting to find the outfit that will go with them.

I was dying to start shooting for 'Paiyya.' I had worn no good clothes for months, and I was dying to wear good clothes. And, for 'Paiyya,' they gave me eight clothes to change in a day!

I tend to be pessimistic about everything: If things seem to be going good, I'm worried that it's going to end; if things are bad, then I'm worried that it's going to be permanent. It's not a very comfortable attitude to have all the time.