Quotes About Anticipation

sometimes it's the one thing we've never had, but have wanted for so long, that has the power to disappoint us the most.

She looked at him for the longest time, and he sensed she wanted to tell him something, so he kept quiet, giving her ample opportunity. She finally stood on tiptoe and kissed him, high on the cheek, about as far away from his mouth as she could get. But that was okay. She'd kissed him. It was a start. And he'd take it.

I said I know my shot when I see it. Sometimes you don't even have to see it. Sometimes you feel it coming, screaming down the sky towards you like a meteor.

For as long as I could remember, a part of me had been waiting for the day it would happen; with the cunning that comes to people whose minds have been stripped to one desire, she picked the only day we weren't waiting for.

you know everybody has a turn, and you just try to find something interesting every day to make you glad it hasn't happened yet.

Have fun, she wanted to say, but it might sound dismissive, so she said nothing. He took her silence as a sign of her disappointment to being deprived the glory of his presence. "Don't worry," he said. "I won't be late. Why don't you put on a little sumpin' sumpin' and surprise me.

It was 4:00 p.m. Chris would be in his car, she was pretty certain, watching Boss Man pull out of the parking lot. He would wait a few seconds to be certain the

What time will you be home?" she'd

She'd followed him from the door to the condo into the tiny office even though he'd requested that she wait a minute in the living room. If he was going back to close his coffin, she had to see it.

Maybe we should wait until after Thanksgiving for the dog. Thanksgiving is so soon! Aren't you excited?" "I hate all holidays.

Fear is the anticipation of future pain. The

at half eleven in the evening. You will receive further instructions there.

In Tibetan we say, "Build the dike before the water comes.

No book before its time.

On the radio Smokey Robinson complained that "a taste of honey is worse than none at all.

Just know I'm right here hopin' That you'll come in with the rain...

I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.

Well if you already know how the story goes, why do you need me to read it to you' 'Cause I wanna hear it!

Vivere con te sarà come mirare a un bersaglio in movimento. Sarai sempre un po' più in là di dove mi aspetto che tu sia.

Sometimes it's good to wait. The anticipation makes it more fun when you get there.

What if all the difficulties anticipated in the Federalist Papers—regional tensions, unscrupulous leaders, and a dysfunctional Congress—happened at precisely the same moment?

There are so many shows that go on endlessly until they lose their original spark, or mysteries that are cancelled before they ever get a chance to payoff.

Every Sparks album is a new album when it's the first one you're hearing.

I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.