Quotes About Anticipation

excitement fluttered in her heart, especially now that her

He thought of the next Saturday. [...] He thought of the picnic by the dipping pool on the river, where oaks and willows dappled the sun on water the color of tea; and girls in light summer dresses would sit in pools of pale cotton. And he knew he would not go.

Mais je t'attendais, je t'attendais, je t'attendais comme mon destin...

In the last analysis it seems likely that they were wiser than I, all those friends in Vienna, because they suffered everything only when it really happened, whereas I had already suffered the disaster in advance in my fantasy, and then again when it became reality.

Un pressentiment vague et fiévreux mêlait un frisson de volupté à l'anxiété d'Edgar.

Her ÅŸey olmas? gerektiÄŸi gibi olmuÅŸtu; çünkü baz? insanlar dünyaya aÅŸk için gelmezler, kavuÅŸman?n ac? verici mutluluklar?n? ta??yamayacak kadar zay?f olduklar? için onlarda sadece beklentinin kutsal ürpertisi vard?r.

That...that was how I spent the day, just waiting, waiting, waiting...but waiting like a man running amok, senselessly, like an animal, with that headlong, direct persistance.

He felt a kind of bridal expectation, sweet and sensuous yet vaguely mingled with anticipatory fear of its own fulfilment, with the mysterious shiver felt when something endlessly desired suddenly comes physically close to the astonished heart.

Nuestro amigo le salió enseguida al encuentro con el peón de su rey, pero Czentovic volvió a hacer una pausa sin fin, casi insoportable; era como cuando cae un rayo terrible y uno espera con el corazón palpitante que llegue el trueno, y el trueno no acaba nunca de llegar.

ich mußte immer wieder aufstehen, so kalt war es im ensetzlichen Dunkel. Aber ich wartete, wartete, wartete auf Dich wie auf mein Schicksal.

Thunder does not come from a clear sky, nor yet from a cloud until there has been an accumulation of electrical stresses; and in like manner a miracle, if it is to happen, demands a particular predisposition, a peculiar nervous and religious tension of the mind. No one ever experiences a miracle unless he has long and passionately awaited it.

La multitud de manos claras, nerviosas y siempre en actitud de espera en torno al tapete verde, todas asomando por la caverna de su respectiva manga, cada una de forma y color diferentes, algunas desnudas, otras adornadas con anillos y pulseras tintineantes, muchas velludas como animales salvajes, muchas otras húmedas y retorcidas como anguilas, y todas, sin embargo, crispadas y trémulas por una enorme impaciencia.

It is true that whenever we have been told a great many interesting things about a person whom we have not yet met, our visual fantasy conjures up a picture of him beforehand, dipping liberally into the storehouse of our most precious and most romantic memories.

Pero ¡Quién sabe!: Lo que aún no es, bien podría llegar a ser algún día

Sabahtan geceye kadar bir ÅŸeyler beklenir, ancak hiçbir ÅŸey olmaz. Beklenir durulur. Hiçbir ÅŸey olmaz. Beklenir, beklenir, beklenir; düÅŸünülür, düÅŸünülür, ÅŸakaklar aÄŸr?yana kadar düÅŸünülür. Hiçbir ÅŸey olmaz. Yaln?z kal?n?r. Yaln?z... Yaln?z...

I am quite sure I shall find it very amusing and not at all too much for me.

Twice, in half an hour, Hetty had held up Miss Barlow's plans, and prevented her from moving as quickly as possible on to the next pleasure. Miss Barlow liked her life to be a steady movement towards pleasure. While she was having one, she was thinking about the next and what she should wear while she had that.

Ein ausverkauftes, erwartungsvoll gestimmtes Kino ist ein Erlebnis. Die Phantasien über den bevorstehenden Film bekommen Bärenkräfte. Wenn er dann wirklich spannend ist, wird die Sache unvergeßlich.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

Premonitions are there to prepare you for what's to come.

She had been waiting, she thought. Always waiting. In New York, waiting for her life to be replaced by some other, more interesting life on offer. Waiting for money that she felt ought to be hers to flood in and elevate her position, from some male source...

The macarons are coming!" Souse shouted, like an epicurean Paul Revere.

You are riding for a fall, Your Grace," "I'll be riding you before Christmas.

Seven days until you're murder free!" "Nothing like jinxing me to add to the challenge