Quotes About Anticipation

I'm on the verge of tears by the time we arrive at Pastels since I'm positive we won't get seated but the table is good, and relief that is almost tidal in scope washes over me in an awesome wave.

This isn't a script, Julian says. It's not going to add up. Not everything's going to come together in the third act.

She immediately moves into me and says she is sorry and then she's guiding me toward the bedroom and this is the way I always wanted the scene to play out and then it does and it has to because it doesnt really work for me unless it happens like this.

I kiss her on the mouth. She looks around nervously. I watch her reflection in the BMW. What's wrong? I ask. Not here, she says, but as if not here is the promise of somewhere better.

How could she ever understand that there isn't any way I could be disappointed, since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to.

How could she ever understand that there isn't any way I could be disappointed since I no longer found anything worth looking forward to?

Some say that the anticipation of a thing is better than the thing itself. In my view, this is utter nonsense. Any fool can imagine a prize. I desire the tangible.

The unexpected is not always a surprise. —Mentat observation

Every man dreams of the future, though not all of us will be there to see it. —TIO HOLTZMAN, Speculations on Time and Space

There is a rule about surprises: Most of them are not good.

Sometimes it's best to expect the worst. That way you're never disappointed.

Anticipation and dread aren't opposites, just different versions of the same game. Both involve knowing that something is going to happen, but not knowing when. And whether you end up winning or losing, you at least get to reach a conclusion. There's always some comfort in that.

Dude, your husband is gonna die!

Relax, Klara, you can finish your one-woman book club as soon as somebody gets home.

It's foolish to speak of your happiness before you're sure you have it.

Michael Kami, the strategy expert wrote, Those who do not plan for the future cannot have one.

As Michael Kami, the strategy expert, wrote, "Those who do not plan for the future cannot have one." Personal

The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.

En el camino a tu destino, en el logro de tu meta más importante, pregúntate continuamente, ¿cuáles son las peores cosas que podrían pasar? Y luego protégete contra ellas.

I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today.

Based on your current results, what changes are you going to have to make to ensure that your products and services of tomorrow are exactly what the customers will be wanting at that time?

This leads to my twin warnings: TRANSITIONS ARE COMING. BE PREPARED.

Bruno, Irene Nemirovsky

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