Quotes About Anticipation

One need not be a prophet to be aware of impending dangers. An accidental combination of experience and interest will often reveal events to one man under aspects which few yet see.

No man can give me any word but Wait.

Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.

Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

As proud as I am of Doo-Wops I feel like, 'Oh, man. People haven't seen nothing. They don't even know what I'm about to do,' and that's what I can't wait to show the world.

Thorkell Mylrea had waited long for a dead man's shoes, but he was wearing them at length.

It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

We can't always expect great things from great men; but we must always expect little things from little men!

The dream Dreamed by a happy man, when the dark East, Unseen, is brightening to his bridal morn.

You can't surprise a man with a dog.

Every man's entitled to hope.

Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

They might see that you are going to meet a beautiful woman or a beautiful man. They will come to you in dreams and tell you this is going to happen because of them.

She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.

Men see what they expect to see.

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.

Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?

Man is never out of range of surprises!

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

He's a smart man, so I am assuming he will do it.

Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring."

The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.

Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!