Quotes About Anticipation

The greatest wonder is never being able to know what will happen next. No matter how hard you try, the future will always be ahead of you.

Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior.

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

I'm looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes.

She said she wanted my best line tomorrow after the show, and now I knew what it was going to be.

Prenuptial agreement: Paper a lawyer prepares to protect the party of the first part from the party of the second part should they discover the party's over.

Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure.

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.

AWWW ON THE MAIL. The mail man delivers, once again!

I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession.

A man must study general conditions, to seize them so as to be able to anticipate probabilities.

At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming.

She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.

Man, I tell you, this is worth waiting 16 years for!

Readers of this memo will be disappointed to know that Bong-Bong Gad (sic), designer/owner/driver/proprietor of the vehicle, anticipated the inevitable there but for THE GRACE OF GOD go I witticism by unloading same on Yours Truly while we were still shaking hands (Filipinos go in for long handshakes, and the first party to initiate termination of a handshake—usually the non-Filipino—is invariably left with a nagging feeling that he is a shithead)

It is what you don't expect," he'd said, "that most needs looking for.

But the rest of our lives will happen in the future, Randy, so we might as well get with the program now.

I created opportunities, in case we might need them.

It is what you don't expect," he'd said, "that most needs looking for." "Do

Frink and Blevins had an uber-mission (I wonder, shall it seem antiquated or inconceivable, if these words are ever brought to light?).

You know, now, the decision I made. Which was to suffer for the greater good. Because society will go astray if there are not those who, like me, imagine many outcomes. Let those scenarios run rampant in their minds. Anticipate the worst that could happen. Take steps to prevent it. If the price of that—the price of having a head full of dark imaginings—is personal suffering, then so be it.

He will see you immediately, mademoiselle!" announced de Mayet, though not until after they had watched a second candelabra