Quotes About Anticipation

Once we were outside, I was so excited I could hardly stand it. "Grandmère!" I yelled. "What'd you say to them? What'd you say to convince them to let me go?" But Grandmère just laughed in this scary way and said, "I have my ways." Boy, did I ever not hate her then.

I'm already fantasizing about the Chinese food IO'm going to order in. Moo shu chicken with hoisn sauce. Maybe I'll even eat it in the bathtub.

front hallway while they were gone.

This is my new hobby. I watch my life depart minute by minute. I anticipate the end of everything and anything -- a conversation, a class, track practice, darkness -- only to be left with more clock-watching to take its place. I'm continually waiting for something better that never comes. Maybe it would help if I knew what I wanted.

Ah, said the magus, understanding at once. I see that he means to be prepared if he meets him again. Surely that's unlikely, said Sounis. I don't think unlikely means to him what it does to the rest of us, said the magus.

Staring at the wall opposite him he presented the queen with a view of his ear and awaited her orders.

Henry unpacked the car and loaded himself up with everything they'd brought, little bags and big ones, a string tote, a knapsack. As he started up the driveway, his girlfriend said, Do you have the wine, Hank? Whoever Hank was, he had it.

He had written her reams and reams of letters, as well as a poem that she kept folded in a locket around her neck. Her letters were full of love and anticipation, matching his for enthusiasm and tenderness. He was the luckiest man in the world.

Altogether, the first glimpse of his bride-which should have come as no surprise to Alex, standing there looking so lean and handsome himself-nearly brought him to his knees.

It is my turn to wait. Funny that in all these months we have been meeting, it was always she waiting for me.

were actually pretty hilarious—he hoped

That sounds…exciting!

Yes, everything he touched, everything he owned, everything in his orbit was rare, beautiful, and expensive, but none more so than the treasure in his own bedroom, the most exquisite jewel in his kingdom. Oliver felt his fangs sharpen in anticipation at the thought.

Captain Hook lowered his hand as Smee fired the starting pistol. The race was on!

C'mon, let's get out of here. I have a future to attend to.

For years, every moment I wasn't dancing was a moment I was waiting to dance.

Whereas I like to worry early and avoid the rush," O'Neill said.

It seems that wishing and hoping and dreaming and remembering can be eve more helpful than knowing what's going to happen.

When you come home to me, I will always be here waiting for you.

When we don't get close to people, at least we know what to expect: nothing.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

By Zeus's goolies, it's about time you got here!

But no one can truly know how the game will play before the stones are laid upon the board

He was vaguely aware that his hand was going to hurt like bloodygthat would be later.