Quotes About Anticipation

To be indebted is to fixate on the future (Page 186)

My home was a provisional space in which the present was always wasted in dreaded anticipation of the future.

It was like butterflies on meth in his stomach

Lighter is the wound foreseen.

The worm was yet to come - to say nothing of the thirty thousand bicycles.

When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared.

It wasn't bad, but it could not be great.

I'll be back quick as a rumor.

At the present rate of technical development, electronic mail is probably no more than one or two decades away, so in the Tehaneys' world of 2081 it will have been taken for granted long since.

over het leven] De generale repetitie van een stuk, dat nooit wordt opgevoerd.

Green Christmas, white Easter

the motto "Shop less, live more, save the earth," the team at Operation Noah, anxious about climate change, is promoting a series of events throughout Advent encouraging people to experience Advent in its traditional sense—as a period of "quiet reflection and eager anticipation for the birth of Christ" rather than a time to buy and consume.

But when tomorrow came, the children had more than bread and milk, as you will soon see.

Benny said, "Oh, I can hardly wait to wash my hands! It has been two days since I've really washed them!" "Funny to hear you say that, Ben," said Henry. "I'm going to take a shower the first thing I do.

Il piacere umano (così probabilmente quello di ogni essere vivente, in quell'ordine di cose che noi conosciamo) si può dire ch'è sempre futuro, non è se non futuro, consiste solamente nel futuro. L'atto proprio del piacere non si dà. Io spero un piacere; e questa speranza in moltissimi casi si chiama piacere.

Qué espera de mi la gente? -Que tú no esperes nada de ella.

You could sense the end of the night, like an omen. After it, as happened every morning, nothing would be the same.

face and come to wait at the place where

Watch for when he goes," she whispered. "Then come over to my bedroom. I'll be waiting, darling. Run!

If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

The careful driver is not actually imagining or planning for all of the countless contingencies that might crop up; nor is he merely competent to recognise and cope with any one of them, if it should arise. He has not foreseen the runaway donkey, yet he is not unprepared for it.

Keep moving. Your next big thing may be just around the corner.

per il concerto degli U2 del giorno dopo, al Madison Square Garden.

If you ask her, I'll kill you," says Callie pleasantly. And so it is that when Naomi and Mona are introduced—really, reintroduced—Mona prepares to ask her immediately.