Quotes About Anticipation

Well, what are we waiting for?" asked Michael. "You to put your clothes on," said Jo Dee laughing. "Yo ho ho!" Michael jumped up. "Wait for me!

We all assume that we have our tomorrows to look forward to, but we never truly know what's waiting just around the corner.

I think we receive a great deal what we expect in this world. -Laura Ingalls Wilder

And I will never again underestimate the power of anticipation. There is no better boost in the present than an invitation into the future.

There is no better boost in the present than an invitation to the future.

I take my time walking up the stairs and onto the street. I want life to move slowly because I want to anticipate you with all my heart, greet you with all my heart, fuck you with all my heart and miss you with all my heart. I have to laugh because I sound like a greeting card but I deserve this, you, joy.

This will sound crazy, but I'm saving it. For my nursing home list." "You mean bucket list." "Oh no, that's totally different. A nursing home list is a list of things you plan on reading and watching in a nursing home. A bucket list is more like . . . visit Nigeria, jump out of an airplane. A nursing home list is like, read The Western Coast and watch Pulp Fiction and listen to the latest Daft Punk album.

I get home and there's a box on my front porch. My serotonin surges and Jeff Bezos is a rich man because he knows how much we all just love to get a present, even if it's a present we bought for ourselves.

There is no better boost in the presence than an invitation to the future.

I'm so excited to see you that the world doesn't even exist right now.

I can't wait to get out of here. My parents... they act like everything since high school blows, like they'd get in a time machine if they could. IT's so sad. I mean life is all about what's next, you know?

Everyone wants everything right now but you are able to wait with Such small hands.

because this morning you didn't know you were gonna want me.

Sometimes I look back and think my whole adult life has been underlined with a feeling of waiting – waiting for something to happen, waiting for circumstances to change, waiting for the right man or the right job or the right shoes-and-clothes-and-haircut to swoop down from above and change me, to infuse me from the outside in with a feeling of well-being and validation and peace of mind

When you quit drinking you stop waiting.

Which is worse, she thinks, waiting for the sting, or the sting itself?

I've always been asked, 'What is my favorite car?' and I've always said 'The next one.'

it was becoming obvious that the war he had been anticipating, "in three to five years" might have already begun, as many wars do begin, he said, not with a major event reported in the news but with sufferings barely noticed: an unjust law, a murder, a peaceful protest march attacked by police. It begins, according to Leonel, with poverty endured by many and corruption benefiting the few, with crimes unpunished, a hardening of positions, the failure of peaceful means of appeal and redress.

An ache of hope that you will come back— the cawing flock is not your coming — Carolyn Forché, from "Travel Papers," In the Lateness of the World: Poems (Penguin Press, 2020)

The worst is over, the worst is yet to come

Oh, my God. They were going to sleep together, with no sleeping involved.

I have a hunch from reading about old passageways that there may be one or more rooms off this tunnel," Nancy told Captain Rossland.

Her face was like a pot of tea about to whistle.

chuckled. "Oh, boy.