Quotes About Anticipation

How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters.

The sending of a letter constitutes a magic grasp upon the future.

You're as wonderful as I expected, and I worship you for it.

I just hope — if he does come — it won't be some sort of horror show.

With the characteristic cunning of true love, she was already manipulating the future.

Coming events do cast shadows.

It's much better that I should read the letter. Otherwise I shall be endlessly wondering what was in it.

But the tomorrow upon which I was to make my decision never, in the form in which I had envisaged it, arrived.

I just don't know what's going to happen. All I know is that whatever it is it's got to happen. Next week.

Ducane knew that Willy had looked forward to this visit. He knew too that the visit was rendering Willy unspeakably miserable.

Only let the scene end soon and without any horrors.

She began to feel that if there had ever been a bus she had by now certainly missed it.

Sudden things are prepared for.

Adelaide had anticipated pains and difficulties in her married life, and her anticipations were fulfilled.

Nothing happened; yet there were disturbing signs and portents.

On this diet of expectation, he had fairly frenzied himself by the time he arrived.

Louise thought, what will happen to them — perhaps just this is the beginning of some awful end.

Disnae matter if it's Mickey Platini or Franco Begbie, they will aw just have tae wait.

Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.

estoy a punto de lanzar todo mi peso contra una puerta y encontrar que está abierta de par en par.

No ha dicho cuando volverá. Hardin contestó: -Lo sé…; ¡Pero espero que no vuelva hasta que usted y yo estemos segura y cómodamente muertos!

In Russia, receiving a letter was such a rare phenomenon that any member of the family who got his hands on it first opened it.

There was a thin, reedy quaver in the air, that wavered raggedly up the scale. It hovered, dropped and caught itself, gained in body, and swooped into a booming crash that had the effect of a thunderous split in a veiling curtain.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.