Quotes About Anticipation

Rick feels almost the way he used to halfway through his third drink, his favorite moment, the way he wishes all moments in life could feel: heightened with the sense that anything could happen at any moment--that being alive is important, because just when you least expect it, you might receive exactly what you least expect.

We planned to enter the ruins the following day. What would we find? I couldn't even begin to imagine it.

Douglas Preston

It's not enough to figure out how to do something. You must also analyze every possible path to failure. Only then can you be certain of success.

The future you shall know when it has come before then forget it.

Do not count your chickens before they are .

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.

Oh, you aren't even ripe yet! I don't need any sour grapes.

For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today

No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.

Ah! Madame, I reserve the explanations for the last chapter.

The expected has happened, and when the expected happens, it always causes me emotion.

Let us think only of the good days that are to come.

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what the fairies will send you—

But after a while they stopped talking about her and discussed instead who was going to win the Grand National. For, as Mr Ferguson was saying at that minute in Luxor, it is not the past that matters but the future.

I said, life will not pass her by. Strange and exciting events will surround her. You've only got to look at her to know it.

Well," said Adam, as Poirot went out. "First girls' knees, and now draughtsmanship! What next, I wonder!

But nothing will suit him now but the best! He's got on wonderfully, and naturally he wants something to show for it, but many's the time I wonder where it will end.

Expect me when you see me.

it is the future that causes one inquietude.

Quando si vive nello stesso paese, uno non sente il bisogno di programmare incontri con i vecchi amici: prima o poi è convinto che li incontrerà. Questo però, se ci si muove in sfere diverse, non accade mai.

esperaba... esperaba a lo largo de las horas el éxito o el fracaso de un esfuerzo.