Quotes About Anticipation

I was happy, free in a way I had never been, ever. It was the oddest sensation. Not ecstasy, not satisfaction, not a surfeit of pleasure or accomplishment. It was a purer delight, a rogue anticipation with certainty.

No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you. How loose the silk. How fine and loose and free. DENVER'S SECRETS were sweet.

It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both.

fingers into his socks, looking up the inside back of his coat. If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

Knowing that she would hate him long and well filled her with pleasant anticipation, like when you know you are going to fall in love with someone and you wait for the happy signs.

Ahora estaba convencido de que el afecto por ella había sido medicinal, como una aspirina. Efectivamente, tanto si se daba cuenta como si no, Lily desplazaba su desorden, su cólera y su vergüenza. Hasta el punto de que había llegado a convencerse de que el naufragio emocional estaba superado. En realidad, solo esperaba el momento más propicio para asomar

I always know the ending; that's where I start.

Je me lèverai demain. extrait de la nouvelle Temps de Blues

Those who got the twentieth century right, whether in anticipation [..] or as contemporary observations, had to be able to imagine a world for which there was no precedent.

We have to have HOPE, which is Confident Expectation!

Bramo assai, poco spero (Hope for much, expect little)

When the clouds clear we shall know the colour of the sky

Je rêvai, non d'une ville figée, mais de la ville à venir.

Connor turned to Vanda. "I'll need to check yer bag, too." "I thought you'd never ask." Vanda tossed her bag onto the table. She was ready for him this time. He opened her silver evening bag. His eyes widened. She was quite proud that she'd managed to squeeze a pair of handcuffs, a blindfold, her back massager, and a bottle of Viagra into such a tiny handbag. She smiled sweetly. "Something wrong, Connor?

Phryne was getting out of the car. Dot closed her eyes. Miss Fisher was about to happen to someone again.

Lista para la siguiente aventura, princesa? -Estoy lista si tú lo estás-Dijo ella en voz baja.

Ready? -Ready if you are.

En el comedor se hizo un silencio sepulcral—susurró Xemerius desde la araña—. Todas las miradas apuntaban a la muchacha de la blusa amarillo pipí...

Gideon grinned down at me. "Ready?" he whispered. "Ready when you are," I replied automatically. It just slipped out

Ready?" "Ready when you are.

Don't stop looking over your shoulder. You never know what's about to happen.

She decided that this kind of waiting - waiting for something good and bad tangled together - should be given its own special name.

There was something wonderful - something potent even - about a present before it's unwrapped. Especially an unexpected one. Anything could be inside.

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.