Quotes About Anticipation

... for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

With a horror movie, you dont want to anticipate where things are going to go.

Baseball will be back to Montreal, I want to see it. I want it to happen before I die. I will see it

I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

I am constantly thinking ahead to what I want to write about in the future, and when I'm done with one project, I give myself a little time and then start the next one.

Peace is the time of waiting for war. A time of preparation, or a time of wilful ignorance, blind, blinkered and prattling behind secure walls.

Expectation is the hoary curse of humanity.

Something awaits me. I do not mean this mad Emperor. Something else. Answer me this. How does one measure time?' 'By the course of the sun, the phases of the moon, the wheel of the stars. And, of course, in cities such as this one, the sounding of a bell at fixed intervals – a wholly absurd conceit and, indeed, one that is spiritually debilitating.

Whoever waited outside was impatient – thunder rang imperiously through the room even as the old man reached for the bar.

Seeing victory only moments away stripped caution from the hunters.

It slowly dawned on the thief that a duel was but moments away.

Crokus jumped at a faint plopping sound from the stairwell. He laid his hands on his knives, tensing.

The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.

With no expectations anything can become.

I know that today, with a full tank, and with Annabel, that it's time to go.

In one of the paradoxes of storytelling, readers want to predict how the story will end (or how it will get to the end), but they want to be wrong.

Typically, readers don't get bored because too little is happening but because too little is being promised.

The days passed in a dream. I pictured our reunion again and again, played it out in my mind over and over until I'd almost worn a groove in my thoughts, so deep that it seemed the only thing I could think of was our reunion. Anticipation is a gift. Perhaps there is none greater. Anticipation is born of hope. Indeed it is hope's finest expression. In hope's loss, however, is the greatest despair.

Anticipation is a gift. Perhaps there is none greater. Anticipation is born of hope. Indeed it is hope's finest expression. In hope's loss, however, is the greatest despair.

But she has always felt that her thirties were going to be her best decade, and since she is still lingering in her twenties, there is no hurry.

Cecie keeps telling him she'd like to take him home some night, husband or no. The Minotaur waits hopefully. Husband or no.

Plato and the neo-Platonists taught that the beauty we see in nature is a reflection of the beauty of the ultimate, the nous. For us, too, the beauty of present theories is an anticipation, a premonition, of the beauty of the final theory. And in any case, we would not accept any theory as final unless it were beautiful.

Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.