Quotes About Anticipation

It was as if Tatrini had been waiting for the right moment to show her claws, and her image to the people now seemed part of a carefully contrived plan.

We do no possess the luxury of being able to wait patiently for the bud to flower.

Othman sensed that, had he wanted to, he could have had Owen now, but it was not the time. The kiss was enough: deep, pervading, the first offering of the greatest passion.

Already an atmosphere of anticipation, rivalling that of before the play, was intensifying.

In her present mood, the prospect of sacrifice would have livened up what she otherwise anticipated would be a bleak event.

He knew there were dreams waiting for him, and could even feel their shadowy presences rusting in the corners of the room, among his clothes in the wardrobe, beneath his bed.

Could Ellony feel the potential humming around her? She still stared moodily into the flames, no doubt dreaming of the days she thought would come.

I am always waiting for something, he thought, kept on hold; but for what? What is it that I have forgotten?

I get bored easily. I wanted to keep you guessing.

Go back to your people now. Your master wants you. He has waited a long time.

Only the promise of greater comforts kept me travelling.

Someone stood on the portico leaning on a shovel.

Logan glanced at the clock on the cooker: nearly five minutes fast. The room was bathed in the pale orange glow of the overcast sky, the back garden a jungle of silhouettes and shadows through the window. He filled the kettle, then poured half of it out, before sticking it on to boil. The growing rumble drowned out the babble on his Airwave handset as DI Bell got his firearms team into place.

Uh-huh. We're about … five minutes away? Maybe less? … Still can't believe it: a real murder!

What's the matter, don't you like surprises?" "I like them if they're pleasant ones, and when they happen suddenly," Holly said. "But not when I have to ponder them for an hour and forty-five minutes.

We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.'

If you know haw a book is going to end, would you read it in the first place?" Kit asked herself later, as she stood in the bathroom, an electric toothbrush winding its way around her mouth. "Do you stop reading a book because you don't want to watch the characters you like turn out to be unlikable, or the ones with which you identify denied the happy ending you believe they deserve?

Perfect days are just the world setting you up to rip you down.

But even then I knew how it was going to be, I could feel the coming silence in the long, poisonous pauses that expanded as the night progressed.

I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.

Just measured my thing. It has grown one centimetre. I might be needing it soon.

I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself.

The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.