Quotes About Anticipation

We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.

Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.

If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Don't you hate it when...your suitcase is the last one off the airplane?

I hope to see London once ere I die.

Travel is ninety per cent anticipation and ten per cent recollection.

The largest single reason for disappointing travel experiences is the failure to plan properly.

You will come home before the leaves have fallen from the trees.

I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind.

Maybe I'll be like that man in "The Hanging Tree'. Still waiting for an answer.

In the 8th inning you can't hear the roar of the 9th, all you can do to hold yourself together, and trust.

Dear God, the woman was still beautiful. After all these years. All this time. And he bet he could have her pants off and be inside her in…he glanced at his watch. Thirty seconds. Yeah. That would work.

Hold on," she murmured, and he briefly wondered if she ever used that particular tone of voice in bed. Mitch snorted, trying to stop where his thoughts were headed—again. "Yeah, yeah. Show me what ya got, sweet—Mother of God Almighty!

I… I do not think that… gentlemen do this sort of thing." Her pulse raced with excitement and anticipation. "Only scoundrels.

You might want to hold tight to the arms of the chair." That was the last warning he offered before he bent his head…

Expect magic.

For the next three seconds, he still dared to let himself hope. Perhaps she was making a grand entrance. Perhaps she would be carried in like Cleopatra, hidden in a roll of fine carpet. Perhaps— Three porters, grunting, pulled in a handcart. A crevasse opened before him and in fell his heart. No need to remove the tarpaulin wrapping. He recognized the stone slab by its size and weight. She had returned his present. She would have nothing more to do with him.

Her silence wasn't simply distracted; there was something unnerving about it. He felt as if he stood on the prow of a ship, watching the captain scan the horizon for signs of impending disaster only the latter could recognize.

Only my anxiety is constant: When I hope, I'm anxious that my hopes will come to nothing; when I fear, I'm anxious that my fears will all come true.

be in Carrie's care down the road. For the first time Carrie was starting to

Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.

The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the crisp sharp promise of frost in the air, but it wasn't that way. It rained and little puddles of water shone under the street lamps on Main Street. In the woods in the darkness beyond the Fair Ground water dripped from the black trees.