Quotes About Anticipation

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow.

I've been talking to people all over the country, city council members, grassroots leaders, party leaders, members in Congress - and you know what? The truth is I'll have something to say real soon.

The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.

On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?

Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Be wise today so you don't cry tomorrow.

Yes, sir. I think this plan is marginally better than dying of asphyxiation or starvation out in empty space, and it has the virtue of novelty. Implacable couldn't anticipate we'd do it. Only crazy people could anticipate we'd do it.

he didn't think much of the ticket. He examined carefully the piece of green cardboard which he held in his paw. "It doesn't seem much to get for eighty pence," he said. After all the lovely whirring and clanking noises the ticket machine had made, it did seem disappointing. He'd expected much more for his money.

A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.

Walter broke off a piece of a smile and tucked it into his left cheek as if reserving it for future use.

A Messiah who actually arrives is no good to anybody. A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.

I anticipate a coming season of dilated time and of women all in disarray.

Those who make their living flirting with catastrophe develop a faculty of pessimistic imagination, of anticipating the worst, that is often all but indistinguishable from clairvoyance. Kornblum

I love the predictions of a man right before his first child is born," Flowers said. "They're like little snowflakes. Right before the sun comes blazing out the clouds and melts those happy dreams away.

Silence then, ominous, neither heavy nor light, the vast silence of a dirigible before the static spark.

I was to spend the daytime summer stunned by air-conditioning, almost without a thought in my head, waiting for the engagement of evening.

man coming toward him over the ice, watching

Darkness waits. All things come to the dark.

Through studying the past we learn our future.

I didn't have all the answers but experience told me that they would come.

As with many of my young male clients from the south side of the city, prison was an anticipated part of life for McGinley. He grew up knowing he was going. The only questions were when and for how long and whether he would live long enough to make it there.