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Quotes About Anticipation

My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope and anticipations of joy.
~ Mary Shelley
Oh expectation, what a frightful thing art thou, when kindled more by fear than hope!
~ Mary Shelley
When you let excitement in, Johnny would add, in a lecture-room sort of voice, fear will follow.
~ Mary Stewart
the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope, and anticipations of joy.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Happy, happy earth! Fit habitation for gods, which, so short a time before, was bleak, damp, and unwholesome. My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature. The past quil and the future gilded by bright rays of hope and anticipations of you.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Si el éxito me sonríe pasarán muchos, muchos meses, y tal vez años, antes de que volvamos a encontrarnos. Si fracaso, me verás pronto, o quizá nunca.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Some days it just feels like I'm here for the shoes and the eternal hope that I shall be issued minions.
~ Matt Fraction
You have no idea how they will respond to you.
~ Matt Morris
Generally speaking, it's difficult not to be at least mildly terrified of a girl who might, at any moment, take her shirt off. But
~ Matthew Norman
Beware the camel's nose—for its whole body will soon follow.
~ Matthew Pearl
Come in early, so there'll be time to pop corn,' Mrs. Ray said. If she mentioned popping corn, they always came in early. So she usually mentioned it.
~ Maud Hart Lovelace
After Commencement Day, the world! Joe said. With Betsy.
~ Maud Hart Lovelace
And then we'll go to Tiffany's and get you a ring. And then-- he turned swiftly to look into her fade-- when can we get married?
~ Maud Hart Lovelace
Betsy dreamed about going away from Deep Valley, but she didn't for a moment suspect that around a bend in her Winding Hall of Fate a journey was actually waiting.
~ Maud Hart Lovelace
It was a bit on the frantic side, maybe because neither one of us had done the metal preparation, so we were both thinking, Oh, right! Kissing! Quickly! Quickly! More movement! Deploy tongue!
~ Maureen Johnson
That's what she gets, if she gets anything at all, Stevie said. All of this starts in late May and goes on through June. What dose this suggest? Morning sickness, Nate said, his eyes widening. Morning sickness, Stevie replied, smiling. You terrify me, Nate said quietly.
~ Maureen Johnson
This was England. There was always rain in the future.
~ Maureen Johnson
Stevie packed like someone who just heard that reports of the monster were true, and it was headed toward the city.
~ Maureen Johnson
It's David!" Ellie said, throwing up her arms and breaking Stevie's concentration on Hayes and his orbit. "David, David, David!" As David David David came into the yurt
~ Maureen Johnson
Love is in the air," Nate said quietly. "Love may be on top of your machine in a minute.
~ Maureen Johnson
She never knew where he was, in what city or on what continent, the day after she had seen him. He always came to her unexpectedly—and she liked it, because it made him a continuous presence in her life, like the ray of a hidden light that could hit her at any moment.
~ Ayn Rand
He sat looking at her. She waited to see the derisive smile, but it did not come. The smile seemed implicit in the room itself, in her standing there, halfway across that room.
~ Ayn Rand
She tried to demonstrate her power over him. She stayed away from his house; she waited for him to come to her. He spoiled it by coming too soon; by refusing her the satisfaction of knowing that he waited and struggled against his desire; by surrendering at once.
~ Ayn Rand
I, I am the day after tomorrow.
~ Ayn Rand