Quotes About Anticipation

what were you hoping to find?" he snapped "A little tree house with a sign reading serial killers hangout, please come in?.

it's not enough to be up to date. We have to be up "to-morrow.

I want there to be great expectations for Japan.

Not that I'm waiting with bated breath for your presents. I need your diamond brooches and bracelets like last year's snow.

We might meet again, someday between dreams at dawn.

More anticipated the beginning.... Less welcome is the end.... and vice versa

You don't know what can happen tomorrow. Life is like a novel, isn't it? It's filled with suspense. You never know what's going to happen until you turn the page.

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

When you don't know what to do, wait for your opponent to get an idea — it's sure to be wrong!

Sitting here I glance over my right shoulder at the little row of books, red and green and blue, which stand waiting for my hand, offering their accumulated riches. I think of the years that may be in store for me, and of all the pages I may turn.

I didn't want to die – not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

There's a certain type of person who, having read this far, is anxiously wondering: Does something bad happen to the dog?

Creo que esa falta esencial de recuerdos, en mi caso, no provenía de una falta de memoria: creo que mi pensamiento, ocupado en adivinar el futuro, tan lleno de imágenes, no podía demorarse en el pasado.

Brace and be brisk, commoner, carry your heart like an egg on a spoon, be fleet through the concourse, primed for that point in time when the world goes bust

The wildness that comes in the waiting. In the sitting.

wet with it. In that same moment the room beyond the doorway was

Happy endings are only stories that haven't finished yet.

Future is like an asshole. Everybody has one.---John Taylor (Nightside Series)

Oh dear," Sinner said abruptly, rising to his feet. "I do believe something bad is about to happen." I looked quickly about me. "What makes you say that?" "Because Madman's music has just got all tense and dramatic.

together, almost out of their minds with excitement

Careful planning and preparation guarantees powerful experiences.

Jerusalem has a way of disappointing in tormenting both conquerors and visitors. The contrast between the real and heavenly cities is so excruciating that a hundred patients a year are committed to this city's asylum, suffering from the Jerusalem Syndrome, a madness of anticipation, disappointment and delusion.

You can't put a price on the rituals of love, because you never know what will happen next. I suppose fear is part of the excitement and we can't have one without the other.