Quotes About Anticipation

It was the truth, vivid and monstrous, that all the while he had waited the wait was itself his portion.

He surveyed the edifice from the outside, and admired it greatly; he looked in at the windows, and received an impression of proportions equally fair. But he felt that he saw it only by glimpses, and that he had not yet stood under the roof. The door was fastened, and although he had keys in his pocket he had a conviction that none of them would fit. She was intelligent and generous; it was a fine free nature, but what was she going to do with herself?

I don't think I can attempt to say now what it was. Some day—perhaps.

I looked at the place with my heart beating as I had known it to do in the dentist's parlor.

There's no romance here but what you may have brought with you.

His absence from her for so many weeks had had such an effect upon him that his demands, his desires had grown; and only the night before, as his ship steamed, beneath summer stars, in sight of the Irish coast, he had felt all the force of his particular necessity.

Oh, I hoped there would be a lord; it's just like a novel!

Don't people always feel better just before the end?

You were reserved for my future

She liked him — she had liked him all the while; now anything might happen! She was ready — she had been ready always, waiting for him to speak. If he had not spoken she would have waited for ever; but when the word came she dropped like the peach from the shaken tree.

Oh he'll come back!" I said, glancing at his place.  The repast continued and when it was finished I screwed my chair round to leave the table.  Mrs. Peck performed the same movement and we quitted the saloon

I thought with joy of the morrow

In my mind I saw my own temples in ruins, before even one brick had been laid upon another.

The before dinner atmosphere, the blend of patchouli, warm pitchblend, iced electricity, sugared sweat and powdered urine drives one on to a fever of delerious expectancy.

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

I had changed my francs into drachmas on the boat; it seemed like a tremendous wad that I had stuffed into my pocket and I felt that I could meet the bill no matter how exorbitant it might be. I knew we were going to be gypped and I looked forward to it with relish. The only thing that was solidly fixed in my mind about the Greeks was that you couldn't trust them; I would have been disappointed if our guide had turned out to be magnanimous and chivalrous.

She stood there waiting for me to approach, as though absolutely certain that I would take her by the arm and continue strolling down the avenue.

The name Rebecca excited me. I had always wanted to meet a woman called Rebecca—and not Becky.

Everything that happened to him was of a bad nature. It couldn't be otherwise. He lived in the expectation that things would grow worse, and of course they always did.

For you yourselves know that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 1 Thessalonians 5:2

if you happen to be a boss, you never want an employee to do exactly what you tell him to do. You want him to occasionally do what you don't tell him to do … often what you can't tell him to do, because many problems can't be anticipated.

Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three.

I had thought up the title, 'The Good Luck of Right Now,' several years ago. I had no idea what it meant or what the book would be about but I thought, 'Someday I'm going to write a book with that title.'

Actually, to be honest, this is a useful time to not be knowing what I'll be doing in 2013 or 2014, because really, for the last however many years, I've known what I've been doing for years and years ahead. You get into a cycle of non-reflection, and that gets a bit scary.