Quotes About Anticipation

And we started flying. Sloooooowly. "Yippee?" M-Bot said. "It is kind of a letdown, isn't it?

It would be like finding out that you'd drawn lots for dessert at the Factory and been only one number off, only it didn't matter because Pete already snuck in to steal the dessert, so nobody was going to get any anyway - not even Pete, because it turns out there had never been any dessert to begin with.

This is it, kids. Time for the real party.

Some of you have been waiting for years to read this, the final volume of my autobiography.

You could even scan to the end and read the last page. Know that by doing so, however, you would violate every holy and honorable story-telling principle known to man, thereby throwing the universe into chaos and causing grief to untold millions.

Is it gonna take my breath now," Mizzy asked, "or, like, sometime down the road? I'd like to be prepared.

The enemy thinks he's won. But I want to see his face when he realizes the truth. Don't you? It's going to be delightful.

Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.

I knew you'd glow

La clave de la felicidad no estaba en congelar todo placer momentáneo y aferrarse a ellos, sino en asegurarse de que la vida produjera muchos momentos futuros que esperar con ganas.

So?" Kaladin asked her. "What do you think?" "I think you're going to look extremely silly using it. I can't wait.

She didn't want them reaching any disappointing conclusions-such as "Ransoms are usually bigger than rewards.

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

It's her first grandchild, so she's really, really, really excited. I guess my mom is a little more stressed out than me.

I've been gone for a long time. I really want to give the fans something that they deserve to have. So, I'm working really hard on this. I really want to make it the best work I've done so far.

For anxiety and dread, the threat is in the future. For fear, the threat is now—in the present.

As it turns out, being able to see what's coming doesn't make it any less painful when it arrives. In fact, knowing probably just upped my anticipatory anxiety and my intolerance for vulnerability. The eggshells weren't on the ground; they were duct-taped to the soles of my shoes.

Disappointment is unmet expectations, and the more significant the expectations, the more significant the disappointment.

I believe joy is probably the most vulnerable emotion we experience. We're afraid that if we allow ourselves to feel it, we'll get blindsided by disaster or disappointment. That's why in moments of real joy, many of us dress-rehearse

I'd rather not be joyful than have to wait for the other shoe to drop.

Playing down the exciting stuff doesn't take the pain away when it doesn't happen. It does, however, minimize the joy when it does happen.

I'm so excited about the possibility. I'm trying to stay realistic, but I really hope it happens.

Even the plainest woman looks radiant when she's getting hitched to the man she's been dreaming about.

a thought intruded itself into my brain, unmistakably from without. From the device. From the Grentl. "WE ARE COMING.