Quotes About Anticipation

Getting snail mail is one of my favorite indulgences, and I think receiving mail is actually a common joy.

I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.

I'd say that, 99 percent of the time at Nevada, I knew what the coverage was and where I was probably going before the ball was snapped. It makes it very easy when I only had to read one person and know that I was going from here to here, and if not, I'm checking it down.

I think I'm very good at reading coverage and knowing where I want to go with the ball before the ball is snapped.

I spend so much time hoping things for myself.

Epicurus frees his Wise Man from anticipation and worry about the future.4 [B] The most solid of our laws concerning

it was already tomorrow. She should have known from the beginning that it would end like this.

façades of the unknown city loomed up before him, harboring unimaginable wonders—his whole life had been leading up to this.

Why have these innovations not taken place? I hesitate to accuse philosophers (I consider myself to be one of them), although their vocation is to anticipate the knowledges and practices to come, and it seems to me that they have failed in this task. Preoccupied with day-to-day politics, they have not perceived the arrival of the contemporary.

The physicist Niels Bohr was fond of saying, "Prediction is very hard to do. Especially about the future

Los humanos somos los únicos en todo el reino animal capaces de comprender el concepto de mañana

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book.

a pause so heavy it wasn't just pregnant but ready to break its waters and deliver.

When he was still about forty feet away he stopped, walked over to a bulkhead, and tapped on

Kris decided to wait and see if this new Wasp was bigger than a bread box and smaller than the mythical telephone booth.

Procurator obserwowa? przybysza oczami chciwymi i nieco wystraszonymi. Tak si? patrzy na kogo?, o kim wiele si? s?ysza?o, o kim wiele si? rozmy?la?o, gdy ten kto? wreszcie si? zjawia.

The lodger told Anfisa, Anna Frantsevna's long-time and devoted housekeeper, to say, in case he received any telephone calls, that he would be back in ten minutes, and left together with the proper, white-gloved policeman. He not only did not come back in ten minutes, but never came back at all.

Mani pirms t?l? ce?a ir p?r??mušas skumjas. Messire, bet tas ta?u ir pavisam dabiski pat tad, ja cilv?ks zina, ka ce?a gal? vi?u gaida laime.

in short, you sensed that she was there, Moscow, right there, around the turn, and about to heave herself upon you and engulf you.

She only came through that gate once a day, but my heart would beat faster from at least ten false alarms every morning. Then when her time came and the hands were pointing to noon, my heart went on thumping until her shoes with their black patent-leather straps and steel buckles drew level, almost soundlessly, with my basement window.

I can tell you, it's going to end badly; these Asiatics are all like this. After a good pull of young wine, the knife-play begins!' We mounted our horses and galloped home.

Our expectations shape our perceptions; we see what we are looking for.

nothing yet. I've been waiting. for what? she made no response. she could not tell him that she had been waiting for him.