Quotes About Anticipation

It is both a blessing and a curse that one could never see too far down the road ahead

Let us await what will surley come without fear of unforseen concequences

Choosing a new book was like looking for treasure.

There is a good side to waiting. It drives you into such a state that all you can do is long for your turn to get through with the thing you are afraid of.

Granted, I'd waited a long time to hear those words. Would've sold a kidney-maybe two-to have heard them at one point. Now, though...they didn't have the same impact. They were, in fact, an overcooked noodle in the pasta salad of love.

There was a little smile on his mouth—the mouth that had been kissing hers. Otherwise, he was incommunicado. "Liam?" she said again, more loudly this time. Nada. He was out cold. Down for the count. She straightened abruptly. Face was burning, joints buzzing with adrenaline, chest filled with helium. Liam Murphy had kissed her. And he'd fallen asleep in the middle of it. She didn't know whether to burst into song or kick something.

Levi always said if you heard hoofbeats, expect to see horses, not zebras.

I'm trying not to wet myself with excitement," I murmur back. "It's harder after having the triplets.

the time between almost and right away...

She waited for you in a thousand different ways.

But now it is time to look ahead, not behind.

Elizabeth: "Maybe he'll surprise you." Meghann: "Birdie, they all surprise me. Last week, I hugged my date at the door and felt a bra strap.

Because I carried the war in me, I foresaw it.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Music can occur only in time, but if we are always in the present moment, how is it possible to hear it? It is possible, Augustine observes, because our consciousness is based on memory and on anticipation.

Augustine's exposition of the idea is quite beautiful. It is based on our experience of music. When we listen to a hymn, the meaning of a sound is given by the ones that come before and after it. Music can occur only in time, but if we are always in the present moment, how is it possible to hear it? It is possible, Augustine observes, because our consciousness is based on memory and on anticipation.

And hence this is what time is: it is entirely in the present, in our minds, as memory and as anticipation.

It is with respect to that physical system to which we belong—due to the peculiar way in which it interacts with the rest of the world, thanks to the fact that it allows traces and because we, as physical entities, consist of memory and anticipation—that the perspective of time opens up for us, like our small, lit clearing.

preprandial

Success is the result of psychologically preparing for it, prior to achieving it!

Empecé a seguir - una gota entre la corriente - el rumbo de la masa humana que, cargada de maletas, se volcaba en la salida. Mi equipaje era un maletón muy pesado - porque estaba casi lleno de libros - y lo llevaba yo misma con toda la fuerza de mi juventud y de mi ansiosa expectación.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' We've

She tried to stare hard past all this, down the road to the patch where this would end badly. But the view was obscured by hope and distance, and by the mist that always lies over the new.

by Saturday,