Quotes About Anticipation

I have never forgotten, and I can't imagine you have, and I've thought of it over the years. It was so good, when it was good, I kept thinking. How could it go wrong?

Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?

Yet unbeknownst to all but a few, storm clouds were gathering on the horizon, and faintly in the distance wise men could hear a rumble of thunder.

They laughed at him, but they didn't know, they didn't know about all the nice things he had. No one knew. No one. Only someday he'd see somebody different, somebody to give his things to, somebody who would give him all their things. Yes. He'd like that. He'd know her when he saw her. He'd know just what to say.

Oldtown waited for the dawn, and the coming of the dragons. And the dragons came.

Even dreams cannot live up here.

Men see what they expect to see,

He will not be three forever. And winter is coming.

When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child, then he will return, and not before.

Get five or six," Bast said. "It's getting cold at night. Winter's coming." The innkeeper smiled. "I'm sure Martin will be flattered.

He could feel the eyes of the dead. They were all listening, he knew. And winter was coming.

No more than he knew that the Beggar King would die young, or that Khal Drogo would follow him into the grave. Very little of what the fat man has anticipated has come to pass.

Never refuse a cup of wine or a horn of ale. It may be a year before you see another.

Tomorrow's trials concerned her more than yesterday's triumphs.

Another day done"—he would sigh—"and who knows what the morrow will bring us, eh, Dunk?

The light that brings the dawn.

It was not a silence, just a quiet, the indrawn breath that comes before the shout.

will be along next year in A Dance with Dragon...

Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they're afraid they might get hit by a pass.

The man who became of his understanding of the laws of wealth, acquireth a growing surplus, should give thought to those future days. He should plan certain investments or provisions that may endure safely for many years, yet will be available when the time arrives which he has so wisely anticipated.

Three yearswe waited intently for the heraldclosely watchingthe pines the shore and the stars.

Un virus de insatisfacción vive en la esperanza.

There remains the unforseen. And the unforseen is never negligible.

The charm of your society, my Sparrow, lies in not knowing what you will say next – though one rapidly learns to expect the worst!