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Quotes About Anticipation

You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five.
~ Mitch Albom
Hello, Edward. I've been waiting for you.
~ Mitch Albom
The possibilities of another person. Is there any anticipation on this earth quite like that one? Is there anything lonelier than being without it?
~ Mitch Albom
Sunflowers waiting for the sunshine. Violets just waiting for dew. Bees just waiting for honey And honey, I'm just waiting for you!
~ Mitch Albom
Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me wants to go so desperately.
~ Mitch Albom
I missed the crowds in those big stadiums, the flashbulbs, the roaring cheers - the majesty of the whole thing. I missed it bitterly. So did my father. We shared a thirst to return; unspoken, undeniable.
~ Mitch Albom
and his mind raced ahead of him, beckoning him to follow.
~ Mitch Albom
Here are the long-awaited evenings Here you are. Here am I. Your face the orizon I want to see
~ Mohja Kahf
Soon a rhythm was established, and it was thereafter rare that more than a few waking hours would pass without contact between them, and they found themselves in those early days of their romance growing hungry, touching each other, but without bodily adjacency, without release. They had begun, each of them, to be penetrated, but they had not yet kissed.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Avevano cominciato, entrambi, a essere penetrati, ma non si erano ancora dati un bacio.
~ Mohsin Hamid
So long awaited that its coming was a shock.
~ Mohsin Hamid
You need to see bare branches to know the full astonishing shock of the new leaves come next April. You need the flat, brown emptiness of the mixed borders to measure their summer fullness.
~ Monty Don
Miss Brodie liked to take her leisure over the unfolding of her plans, most of her joy deriving from the preparation
~ Muriel Spark
Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
~ Nadine Gordimer
A desert is a place without expectation.
~ Nadine Gordimer
I'll wait for you to find me again. So don't take too long.
~ Nalini Singh
The people welcome a new da yas if they were certain of liking it, the shopkeepers pull up their blinds serene in the expectation of good trade, the workers go happily to their work, the people who have sat up all night in night clubs go happily to their rest, the orchestra of motor-car horns, of clanking trams, of whistling policemen tunes up for the daily symphony, and everywhere is joy.
~ Nancy Mitford
My companion, with that look of concentration which comes over French faces when a meal is in the offing, did not wait to hear any of this.
~ Nancy Mitford
You feel like it's going to rain.
~ Naomi Novik
I swung my feet off the bed and got on my shoes, and then Liu opened the door and we all jumped back, because Orion was standing right outside like a creeper. He jumped himself, so it wasn't that he'd actually been planning to ambush me; I could only guess that he'd been standing there working himself up to knocking.
~ Naomi Novik
Kennelijk willen veel van ons vandaag de eerste run doen,' zei Alfie op die opgewekte toon waarop een ander wellicht zou zeggen: 'Zo te zien gaat het regenen vandaag!' terwijl het al met bakken uit de hemel komt en je onder een luifel staat te schuilen met vijf anderen met een mes in hun hand, en jij voorzichtig je hand in je zak steek om je pistool te pakken.
~ Naomi Novik
One day soon it will stumble up the walk and knock, knock hard, and you will have to answer the door.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
Through the aid of the sixth sense, you will be warned of impending dangers in time to avoid them, and notified of opportunities in time to embrace them.
~ Napoleon Hill
when one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance." Barnes was ready for a business association with Edison, moreover, he was determined to remain ready until he got that which he was seeking.
~ Napoleon Hill