Quotes About Anticipation

The trees had long since dropped their colorful matntles of leaves. The grass had gone dormant and lay dry and beaten down, as if it would never grow again. An air of bleakness hovered everywhere, giving the place a sense of waiting. A good, clean snowfall would change everything.

I want you to look at me and see no other than the man you love. I want you to feel a start of pure joy when you awaken in the morning and find me beside you. I want you to wish you could rush the sunset so that we can be together sooner.

whatever is ahead will be better than what you have now.

Like many spells with unusual names, the Unrobed Ladies was a great deal less exciting than it sounded.

In all these places I have stood in Doorways and looked ahead.

The air was still. The silvery vapour hung serenely on the far horizon, and the frosty stars blinked brightly. Everyone knows the effect of such a scene on a mind already saddened. Fancies and regrets float mistily in the dream, and the scene affects us with a strange mixture of memory and anticipation, like some sweet old air heard in the distance.

Yet few residents of Los Angeles knew that this holy night, Thursday, January 6th, was the eve of Russian Christmas. There was a far holier day to anticipate on Sunday. They all knew about that one. And this year, praise God, it would be celebrated in nearby Pasadena! Super Bowl XI.

She knew what she looked like - someone at the edge of catastrophe, someone already flinching from a blow that had not yet been delivered.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

Pour me another, the future is stunning

It was nearly five before Jake walked in. He was sunburnt, wet, and smelled faintly of fish. Sexy as hell. Don't ask me to explain.

Last night they hadn't even fucked. What the hell was the point of protective custody if you weren't at least going to get to have sex with your protector?

But that peek into his uncensored brain made it clear he too realized there was a good chance things weren't going to work out for us, that the idea of it not working out was already in his mind, and in some corner of his heart he was already preparing for it. And since I was already preparing to prepare for it too, I'm not sure why it made me so sad. But it did. It was like someone cut my lifeline.

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

Fredi realized that something extraordinary was about to occur. He leaned across the table and grabbed Lorenzo's shirt. "Lorenzo, if what I think is about to happen does happen, I do not, under any circumstances, want to hear you say the word Hooters onstage.

There was time after that to eat the very fine meal Cymbra and Magda prepared with Rycca's able assistance, to linger over the table as Dragon spun stories, and for lovers to dream the night away in each other's arms. But on the morning tide, while yet a ghostly mist lingered over the water, shouts rang out on the quays, oars slipped into their locks, and sails billowed as a dozen war-armed dragon ships sailed for England.

I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this.

A daydreamer is prepared for most things.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

Y siempre las fechas les caían encima como una sorpresa; aunque hicieran planes y cálculos, aunque contaran los días, aunque previeran lo que iban a sentir y lucharan para evitar esta sensación o se abandonaran al deseo de anticiparla e irla fortaleciendo para asegurarle una mayor potencia de crueldad.

pero intuye un peligro, al igual que los perros cuando sus dueños se preparan para salir de casa y dejarlos solos durante

You are lost the instant you know what the result will be.

La esperanza acaba marchitándose cuando dejamos de esperar la segunda venida de Cristo