Quotes About Anticipation

I love fantasizing about what my next meal is going to be; it's probably my favorite topic of conversation.

The real universe is nothing like that. It's more like an annoying child who likes to approach people and say, "I know what's going to happen to you next!" Then, when you ask what will happen, the child says, "I can't tell you." And after it happens, they say, "See? I knew that was going to happen!" That's the universe for you.

The future ain't what it used to be, but it's coming right at us, regardless.

He said it would come down at exactly twenty-three minutes after midnight, and it did. A day is twenty-four hours. Twenty-three minutes after midnight is 24:23.

If impatience would help, Lord Komawara, I would become impatient.

some things could never be anticipated, but he could control the way he reacted to them.

Slowly he edges nearer. He reaches out a hand, so openly and plainly that I believe I am going to expire. The held in breath of the audience is not let out again. Half a minute passes. It is unlikely any of them could of holded their breath like this underwater. They have found new size in their lungs. Down down we go under them waters of desire.

In those strange days when if anything unexpected could happen it probably would.

The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

Aquel 31 de marzo de 1933 bien pudo ser su gran noche. La sala estaba llena de gente con la mirada clavada en el día siguiente, como si se encontrasen ante un profundo abismo. Finck los hizo reír como jamás he oído reír a un público

En las calles tampoco se notaba nada. Business as usual. Pero en el aire flotaba aún la sensación del acercamiento estruendoso de lo desconocido...

Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment.

Where does our need to accelerate time come from? From impatience to arrive in the near future into which we have projected our trifling desires. Our need to slow time down would surely be natural. But why this strong desire to speed things up? Why are we always in a hurry to reach the future?

I wiped the snow off my face. There was someone waiting for me. And that's the only thing that stops us from freezing solid.

Astound me! I'll wait for you to astound me.

A good way to get inside an opponent's head in a water balloon fight: catch a balloon that is thrown at you, untie it, and then drink it.

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance.

Every woman before her has been a promise unfulfilled.

Expecting hell, we're ill prepared for heaven.

I want to be with someone who, ten years from now, still makes my heart jump when I hear her key in the door. And that someone is you.

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

Second, not all thoughts about the future are created equal.

THE SPECIALISTS MODEL SPY: "Sorry," David mumbles right before crushing his mouth to mine. Oh my God, I'm sixteen, and I've never been kissed. Please let me be doing this right. Except . . . this is it? This is about as exciting as kissing my laptop.

Loan me your lace of yellow, sister Lend me your fine kid gloves Tonight is the bridal ball, sister Tonight I'll meet my love Present me a sash of blue, sister Gift me a ribbon of white My love awaits me below, sister I am a bride tonight