Quotes About Anticipation

We can begin by trying to take our goals less seriously. We shouldn't buy things in the hope that they will make us happier. At the time of purchase, we trade off the joys of a faster computer or a bigger house with the costs of payment. The joy will fade — more quickly than we are built to anticipate — but the bills will remain.

The entire mass of people before the palace erupted in a deafening roar. And then, as one, they lunged forward.

Zedd leaned forward eagerly, cutting him off. "Can you command the wind?" Richard leaned back a little. "Of course I can," he said, playing along. He held both hands up to the sky. "Come to me, brother wind! Gather about! Blow a gale for me!" He spread his arms dramatically. Kahlan wrapped her cloak around herself expectantly. Zedd looked about. Nothing happened. The two of them seemed a little disappointed.

Surprise was their greatest weapon. He didn't want to give it up without a very good reason.

Winter was coming; the

A lot of people merely marked time until a holiday, until they could go on vacation, until they could retire, always waiting for their life to begin.

we have to look to the challenge of the future with excitement, not fear.

OH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE STOCKING THAT MAKES A NOISE, said Death. OTHERWISE, WHAT IS 4:30 A.M. FOR?

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but expect dinner to turn up within the hour.

A bad hunter chases, a good hunter waits.

The only way to get something to turn up when you need it is to need it to turn up.

You couldn't put off the inevitable. Because sooner or later, you reached the place when the inevitable just went and waited.

Something wonderful, if you look the long view, was about to happen. If you took the short or medium view, something horrible was about to happen.

You see a wile, you thwart. Am I right?

They live their lives as a sort of temporal blur around the point where their body actually is – anticipating the future, or holding on to the past. They're usually so busy thinking about what happens next that the only time they ever find out what is happening now is when they come to look back on it.

with the expression of one who knows that the light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train.

And, with alarming suddenness, nothing happened.

At least nothing particularly dreadful was happening to him right now. Probably it was only a matter of time.

They want dancing girls! They want thrills! They want elephants! They want people falling off roofs! They want dreams! The world is full of little people with big dreams!

You know it's going to be Mary the Maid, or someone like her, and there's going to be two men and she will end up with the nice one, and there has to be misunderstandings, and they never do anything more than kiss and it's absolutely guaranteed that, for example, an exciting civil war or an invasion by trolls or even a scene with any cooking in it is not going to happen. The best you can expect is a thunderstorm.

There's nothing more useless in the world than a groom just before the wedding.

Adora Belle fought back, and to make sure fought back even before she was attacked.

If he went over the falls now, he might get to the bottom before they did. That wasn't a good sentence, however he tried it.

WILL THERE BE A MOVIE, THEN? Neil likes to think that one day maybe there will, and Terry is certain that it will never happen. In either case, neither of them will believe it until they're actually eating popcorn at the premiere. And even then, probably not.