Quotes About Anticipation

A related but more complex aspect of working memory gives us the ability to draw on past learning or experience and apply it to the situation at hand or predict future outcomes.

I was sayin' let me out of here before I was even born.

Una vez a la semana, regálate una experiencia lúdica en solitario. Haz algo que te resulte muy placentero. Opta por algo divertido, algo que estimule tu imaginación. Planifica la cita con antelación con el fin de esperarla con expectación. Permítete ser juguetón. Sé joven de espíritu.

I am chewing my nails off to the elbow, like Noel Coward's lady.

And where am I to wait for this much-to-be-anticipated tête-à-tête?' I wondered if I was managing to convey sarcasm speaking in a foreign language. It was the only power left to me.

Remember the botched brothel-visit in L'Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

When I was still quite young I had a complete presentiment of life. It was like the nauseating smell of cooking escaping from a ventilator: you don't have to have eaten it to know that it would make you throw up.

Isn't the most reliable form of pleasure, Flaubert implies, the pleasure of anticipation? Who needs to burst into fulfilment's desolate attic?

Some Englishman once said that marriage is a long dull meal with the pudding served first.

That next week was one of the loneliest of my life. There seemed nothing left to look forward to.

I didn't want to press Veronica. I thought I'd wait for her to get in touch this time. I checked my inbox rather too assiduously. Of course, I wasn't expecting a great effusion, but hoped, perhaps, for a polite message that it had been nice to see me properly after all these years. Well, perhaps it hadn't been. Perhaps she'd gone on a trip. Perhaps her server was down. Who said that thing about the eternal hopefulness of the human heart?

The times we did, I would be hit by a sense of what I can only call pre-guilt: the expectation that she was going to say or do something that would make me feel properly guilty.

Samo oni koji vide šta ?e se dogoditi prežive, mora da je to pravilo.

Chi poteva sapere come l'avrebbe pensata, il futuro? Ci aspettiamo troppo dal domani, sperando che sappia contrastare l'oggi.

The butterflies did a slow orbit in her stomach.

eyes fixed on her as though she were the first sign of land after months at sea.

I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm.

Goodbye Curly. I'll see you next summer. Keep out of trouble, now, until I come back.

Ana Iris once asked me if I loved him and I told her about the lights in my old home in the capital, how they flickered and you never knew if they would go out or not. You put down your things and you waited and couldn't do anything really until the lights decided. This, I told her, is how I feel.

At last you have come, threading your way through the endless passages of the maze.

If you could know what was going to happen tomorrow so easily, there wouldn't be much use for fortunetellers, would there?

The future is forever a projection of the present

I selected a simple but graceful gown with a sage-colored organza overdress and a seed-pearl choker, hoping that I had chosen well, and I swept my hair up with long, pearl-dotted pins from a small ivory box on the vanity.

Don't let me do this! As always, his plea received no answer. Half an hour later he entered