Quotes About Anticipation

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.

War seems a perfectly impossible thing, even when it can be seen coming nearer and nearer.

We can't be fighting the last war. We have to be preparing to fight the new war.

I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.

Wars almost never end the way starters had in mind.

It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear.

Never mind of what your enemy thinks of you, relax and think a head of him.

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable and therefore much prepared for has a very good chance of eventually being fought.

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.

The sooner this wedding's over the happier I'll be." [Ron] "Yeah" said Harry, "then we'll have nothing to do except find Horcruxes....It'll be like a holiday, won't it?

It is easy to mistake being ready for a wedding with being ready for marriage.

A married couple that plays cards together is just a fight that hasn't started yet.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Air racing may not be better than your wedding night, but it's better than the second night.

Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.

Remember when you were eleven years old and you thought how great it would be to get your period? And then you got it? That's what planning a wedding is like.

Are you her boyfriend?" ... No, I'm her fiancé." Nate said. We've been promised to each other since birth," Summer added. Our wedding isn't until March.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.