Quotes About Anticipation

they make sure that the costs of being wrong are limited (and their probability is not derived from past data).

Outside, the night seemed poised on tiptoe, waiting, waiting, holding its breath for the storm.

The shriek cut thinly though the drizzling dimness, holding for a long moment. At last it broadened and dropped to the old.

I, for one, don't forget a thing. I just sit around waiting for something worse.

He had that sense, or inward prophecy,-- which a young man had better never have been born than not to have, and a mature man had better die at once than utterly to relinquish,-- that we are not doomed to creep on forever in the old bad way, but that, this very now, there are harbingers abroad of a golden era, to be accomplished in his own lifetime.

At almost every step in life, we meet with young men of just about Holgrave's age, for whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, even after mucha nd careful inquiry, we never happen to hear another word. The effervescence of youth and passion, and the fresh gloss of the intellect and imagination, endow them with a false brilliancy, which makes fools of themselves and other people.

Why do I get the feeling, interjected Cheops, that shit and fan are moving into conjunction, and that we might be in the way?

You have three hundred sixty-five days of immunity. And then, looking him in the eye, said, And I'll be seeing you on day three hundred sixty-six.

It's a curse to see all that might happen but never know what will.

This book is so interesting. I always wonder what's going to happen next.

So Connor stands there with secret anticipation each time there's a group of new arrivals, hoping beyond hope he'll find that self-righteous, self-important, pain-in-the-ass Lev still alive.

At last, he allows himself the wonderful luxury of hope.

Can we just get on with this already?(7).

I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were there upon waking. Our family has a problem with what they called delayed gratification. We want what we want when we want it, and we always want it now.

As Ariadne led him to the massage tent, Rowan thought, In eight months I am going to die. So perhaps he could allow himself a little indulgence on the way.

The Chop Shop is soundproof. Somehow he knew it would be.

It was hard to have feelings about something she was years away from even considering.

It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for.

waiting in a life full of little stories for a death to come

When can I see you again?" "In 2 hours or tomorrow." I walked to the door. You walk like a poem," she said. "See you in 2 hours," I told her.

I can taste her in the air, I can feel her at my fingertips, I can see sidewalks built for her feet to walk upon, I can see pillows for her head, I can feel my waiting laughter, I can see her petting a cat, I can see her sleeping, I can see her slippers on the floor. I know that she exists but where is she upon this earth.

Sunday, the worst god-damned day of them all.

Nothing like beautiful legs. 'Cause with beautiful legs, even if you've been there only once or twice, there might be something up there besides the cunt, there might be something really marvellous this time - it could be a cunt, but it could be - it's just something about looking at the legs just makes you - I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the cunt, I'm just saying, you always imagine - some extra magic when you're looking at the outside portion of the female.

The kids sit about sipping at their coffees and waiting for it to happen. It isn't going to happen.