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Quotes About Anticipation

Antes de conocerte, sólo estaba vivo a medias. De repente, «ahora» significa felicidad, alegría y una mujer a la que adoro. Pero ¿sabes una cosa?. «Ahora» no tiene comparación con mañana. Y mañana no podrá competir con el día siguiente. Tal y como me siento en este momento, mañana va a ser mucho mejor. ¡Ah! Daff, cada día voy a quererte más, te lo prometo. Cada día…" - Simon Bassett
~ Julia Quinn
He took her hands and brought them to his lips, gently kissing each one in turn. "Then we shall begin right now", he vowed. "And tomorrow you shall be transformed". "Tonight I am transformed", she wishpered. "Tomorrow I shall disappear.
~ Julia Quinn
But if you don't," Hyacinth continued, smiling shyly, "then I'd be much obliged if you'd wait for me.
~ Julia Quinn
Hindsight may be a wonderful thing, but foresight is even better. What a pity, then, that people have foresight only in hindsight.
~ Julian Baggini
A pier is a disappointed bridge.
~ Julian Barnes
We're five minutes away." He
~ Julianne MacLean
Youth, health, wealth and beauty are meant to be fuel, to be burned in pursuit of pleasure, and not fruit to be pickled in anticipation of some future famine.
~ Julie Burchill
It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.
~ Julie Burchill
What are you doing?" "What I've wanted to do for a long time." She couldn't move, couldn't think. She was lost in his dark eyes, and as he slowly lowered his head toward hers, she whispered, "Are you going to throttle me, then?" He was laughing when he kissed her.
~ Julie Garwood
They weren't wearing their handy-dandy I'm an Evil Demon T-shirts; nevertheless, I could tell they were coming for me.
~ Julie Kenner
Mostly though, they waited. For the mail. For the news. For the bells. For breakfast and lunch and dinner. For one day to be over and the next day to begin.
~ Julie Otsuka
So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you.
~ Julie Powell
I have never looked to religion for comfort - belief is just not in my genes. But reading Mastering the Art of French Cooking - childishly simple and dauntingly complex, incantatory and comforting - I thought this was what prayer must feel like. Sustenance bound up with anticipation and want. Reading MtAoFC was like reading pornographic Bible verses.
~ Julie Powell
I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.
~ Julie Walters
I know that being ridiculed for being a Spurs fan is part of the deal and that this team will tear my heart out more times than it will make me leap for joy, but I have made my choice. I can't wait for the glory, glory nights yet to come.
~ Julie Welch
Chapter breaks are not so readers have a place to stop reading; they're the breath to take before the roller coaster plummets down the hill
~ Julie Wright
Nerede kald? diplomasinin 'öngörmek için bilmek, gere?ini yapmak için de öngörmek' kural?? Hareketsizli?in hafiflikten bir fark? var m??
~ Julien Gracq
Oare cunosc si altii spaima de-a merge pe-o strada gandindu-te cu deznadejde la toate strazile pe care nu te afli, strazile unde cei care ar vrea sa te cunoasca te asteapta si pleaca, nevazand pe nimeni venind?
~ Julien Green
That long-gone sense of innocence and trust now reminded her of the feeling she now had when about to put on a new dress, or when given a box of chocolates sealed up in its wrapper. Everything was lovely in the anticipation. There must have been a time, she thought wistfully, when disappointment was an undiscovered emotion.
~ Juliet Nicolson
como siempre al acecho esperando algo, agazapado para dar uno de esos saltos absurdos de los que salimos todos lastimados.
~ Julio Cortazar
Como hacer vendas para un soldado que todavía no ha sido herido y sentir eso de grato, que se lo está aliviando desde antes, previsoramente.
~ Julio Cortazar
He's been waiting for her since five o' clock, even if she wasn't supposed to arrive before six.
~ Julio Cortazar
Solamente vendrá lo que tienes preparado y resuelto, el triste reflejo de tu esperanza
~ Julio Cortazar
A veces observaba sus manos con esa atención ingenua que prestan a las cosas más insignificantes las personas que esperan.
~ Julio Ramón Ribeyro