Quotes About Anticipation

I always think something to look forward to is usually better than the thing itself. At least looking forward to something gives you the will to live.

We will not have any Dickens today… but tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that. Let us read Little Dorrit again.

One thought follows on the other, they are not distinct objects with clear boundaries; rather, one thought anticipates the next and thereby contains it. The thought that comes afterward contains the memory or trace of the former. Thus, the movement of thought within the mind requires a mathematics of implicate forms.

Anton Chekhov said that, when the audience sees a loaded pistol on the wall in act 1, it must go off by act 3.

I could be patient. I could. If they'd hurry up.

What was she supposed to do now? Swoon at his feet? Jenny bit back a grin as she wondered what he'd do if she did. If he attempted to catch her, she'd squash him flat.

both with a mixture of relief and apprehension. Jenny could well imagine

The ribbon on my wrist says: Do not open before Christmas.

His pulse quickened at the thought of accompanying Tiana to a ball, seeing her all dolled up in a beautiful gown. He could see her now! Actually, he could see it. Naveen squinted in confusion. Had he seen her in a ball gown already?

Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

Two days?" Decker looked at

La suerte viene a quien menos la aguarda.

Un pájaro de papel en el pecho dice que el tiempo de los besos no ha llegado.

i knew she'd leave me. i figure we might as well go somewhere memorable to fall apart

Had she been able to see into the future, she might have pointed out that she was previewing her successors' plans for a possible no-deal Brexit.

Bracing yourself—always expecting your next race to be your hardest yet—is a much more mature and effective way to prepare mentally for competition.

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

I look more to the future. That's where my head is at.

Desde el día en que entramos en el Bausler Institut no hicimos más que pensar en el día que saldríamos.

No, I be-ant expectin' nothin', but I be so yarnin

I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.

A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness.

Men, at any rate, never fulfilled expectations. They might, upon acquaintance, turn out more entertaining than they appeared; but almost always taking up with a man was like reading a book you had read when you had forgotten that you had read it. You had not been for ten minutes in any sort of intimacy with any man before you had said: "But I've read all this before…" You knew the opening, you were already bored by the middle, and, especially, you knew the end….

L'amour est une catastrophe magnifique: savoir que l'on fonce dans un mur et accélérer quand même; courir à sa perte, le sourire aux lèvres; attendre avec curiosité le moment où cela va foirer. L'amour est la seule déception programmée, le seul malheur prévisible dont on redemande.