Quotes About Anticipation

Happiness is knowing there is cake in the oven.

Forever: Time it takes to brew the first pot of coffee in the morning.

Why can't we move the clocks ahead to Friday afternoon around 4:00?

Man stands for long time with mouth open before roast duck flies in.

Exaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to a man without exaggeration? Do we not exaggerate ourselves to ourselves...? We live by exaggeration. What else is it to anticipate more than we enjoy? The lightning is an exaggeration of the light. Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard. To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.

There must be a tomorrow, because my life overflows today.

Fear is the mother of foresight: spiritual fear... temporal fear...

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.

With the lengthening days which distinguish the third month of winter from its predecessor, come ardent desires for spring, and longings for the time of birds and flowers. An adventurous swallow too early flying from the south, a vision of snowdrops in the snow, a day of April warmth lit by a slant February sun, are all hailed with pleasure as harbingers of a more gracious season on its northland way.

Gone fishin' — Be back at dark-thirty!

Hey there Friday, you sexy beast. I've been looking for you since Monday.

Is there anything like the odor of strawberries? The next best thing to tasting them is to smell them; one may put his nose to the dish while the fruit is yet too rare and choice for his fingers. Touch not and taste not, but take a good smell and go mad!

Heartache awaits the next love as a seed awaits the spring.

She waited, she knew not for what, panting, with dry, burning lips, a leaping pulse, and a fever of expectancy in all her blood.

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of afterthought

Soon never comes soon enough to a young child.

Non c'è appagamento che non sia reso più dolce dal protrarsi del desiderio.

I was not surprised. I wanted to be, but I wasn't.

In my stories, there were always things happening: in my life, nothing would ever happen.

to try to get it all done before you came.' 'Can't I help? I'm absolutely

Pay attention to the reactions of your body. It is the wisdom of the self speaking to you. Be aware of concern, of anticipation, of all the feelings that come from the self. They manifest in the body.

Extremes live within us all. The joy of association resides alongside the anticipation of loss. What is given will be taken, what we have is often only of value to us when it is gone." He paused, his face now held to the light once more.

Extremes live within us all. The joy of association resides alongside the anticipation of loss. What is given will be taken, what we have is often only of value to us when it is gone.