Quotes About Anticipation

But no matter what you do to postpone it, the future always shows up at your door.

In spite of myself, I gave a snort. Just once, I'd like to hear a simple, straightforward prophecy.

How is it that disappointment arrives as soon as what you have desired for so long steps over the threshold? It's like finding the end of your wedding train dragging behind in the mud.

People only go to the places they have visited first in their minds.

Her biggest fault - perplexing to this day - is that Mother loves to pick trash. Its an adventure, she says. You never know what surprises you'll find

I can't wait to get out of the house. I can't wait to get out of here. I've been telling myself this all week. The 'getting out of here' part is unspecified, though. Maybe I simply want to get away from life

Have I become the girl who waits by the phone, hoping it will ring, who asks a friend to dial her number to make sure the phone is working?

Sex. It's the biggest sham of all. I mean, your whole life, all you ever hear is how you're supposed to save yourself for marriage. And how it's so special. And then you finally do it. And you're like, that's it? This is what everyone's been raving about?

Sex. It's the biggest sham of all. I mean, your life, all you ever hear is how you're supposed to save yourself for marriage. And how its so special. And then you finally do it. And you're like, that it'? This is what everyone's been raving about?

Crap." We were supposed to get boyfriends last year and we didn't.

He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near. It is he who, whether it be far or near, awaits it with sincere faith, steadfast hope, and fervent love. —Augustine of Hippo

Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

The price we pay for the anticipation of our future is anxiety about it.

The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer.

And the Sphinx broke its long silence: Don't expect too much.

He is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.

From one point of view the Transcendent Other is nature correctly perceived to be alive and intelligent. From another it is the awesomely unfamiliar union of all the senses with memory of the past and anticipation of the future. The Transcendent Other is what one encounters on powerful hallucinogens. It is the crucible of the Mystery of our being, both as a species and as individuals. The Transcendent Other is Nature without her cheerfully reassuring mask of ordinary space, time, and causality.

I believe that first love is a thorny issue, filled with anticipation and hopes and expectations that are usually dashed by realities of life. It is most difficult to accept the end of the first love someone bears for another. And when that first love is not returned, it is the most difficult to forget

Some decisions cannot be made in advance of the time that will demand them. We cannot always anticipate the way in which things will happen and therefore cannot anticipate what we will do. We must accept that.

He was waiting, and the waiting was painful. Not because he didn't know how to wait, but because he didn't know what he was waiting for.

It didn't hurt to consider things that might one day be. Or even things that might never be.

Help is a gift that one must never grow to expect.

of what waits just around the next corner.

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