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Quotes About Anticipation

Martin was one of those people for whom a good book before sleep is something to look forward to all day. Such a person, upon happening to recall, amidst routine occupations, that on his bedside table a book is waiting for him, in perfect safety, feels a surge of inexpressible happiness.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
~ Von Clausewitz
no debemos permitir que lo que podemos hacer ahora condicione nuestro punto de vista sobre lo que se necesita hacer para ganar mañana. Nuestro enfoque es de pizarra limpia».
~ W. Chan Kim
Anxiety is fear about what may happen in the future, and it occurs only when the mind is imagining what the future may bring.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
I'm ready when you are, Lucan." "Okay," he said, shaking his head in defeat. "Let's go get our boy.
~ Lara Adrian
Fuuuuuuuuuuck." Kynan scrubbed his face. "I could use a double shot of whiskey right now." "I'm sure Flicka keeps hard liquor behind the bar." "Flicka?" "I don't want to say her name." "So you're calling her horse names?" Ky coked a dark eyebrow. "I can't wait to see how she reacts to Mr. Ed.
~ Larissa Ione
Was he actually looking forward to seeing Cara again? The goofy way his lips were curved into a smile said yes, and horror of horrors, he realized he was experiencing some sort of crush. He needed to kill something.
~ Larissa Ione
He moved toward Jedda, his pulse inexplicably growing faster as he neared her. He'd been in the presence of blindingly gorgeous females with unimaginable power in his centuries of life, and none of them had affected him like this. No, this was different, a mix of attraction and anticipation he would almost compare to battle lust.
~ Larissa Ione
Ventetida var best, eller verst, alt ettersom, når det først skjedde, når man var der, så var det liksom over allerede og noe annet som var sværere og finere eller styggere og jævligere vinka i det fjerne. Og så var det bare å gå i gang med å vente, glede, grue seg igjen.
~ Lars Saabye Christensen
This may sound funny but somewhere in the back of my mind I thought the world would stop for my first day of JH. The day proved me wrong and I've grown to realize that nothing will be quite as I dreamed them up.
~ Latoya Hunter
First, you need to write down fifteen things you think the person will say to your ask. Second, you need to write fifteen things you will say to each of the fifteen responses you think you will receive. If you think this takes time, it sure does. Is it worth it? You bet.
~ Laura Fredricks
She expected it. You can dodge the first devil that can sabotage your efforts by making sure you ask, not expect.
~ Laura Fredricks
She'd envisioned her next meeting with him countless times, and every vision was the same: Alex would be somewhere—preferably at a bar surrounded by men—looking sexy, but uninterested. Troy would be there, too, looking tortured and desperate to win her back.
~ Laura Griffin
She looked around her apartment which seemed to be waiting for something. Lana hated that, when the room was a pregnant pause.
~ Laura Jacobs
But the future bores me. I imagine following it like a leaf into traffic. I imagine eating it like a heart made of oatmeal.
~ Laura Kasischke
But, perhaps, I should have known then, I should have known that night, standing in the kitchen, that foul meat in the air- looking back on it now, I see that it was the end and the beginning of something more than dinner. More than ruined appetite, a postponed meal, a marriage strained, a freezer unplugged. I could smell the death between them.
~ Laura Kasischke
Maybe, I think, when you've waited a long time to see something, you need to find your way to it in glimpses.
~ Laura Kasischke
It's time love," he murmured, nuzzling her throat, kissing her ear. "I've waited so long. I can't wait any longer have you.
~ Laura Lee Guhrke
Nothing causes more pain, frustration, and disappointment than unfulfilled expectations." "That may be so, but
~ Laura Lee Guhrke
the greatest unhappiness a person can feel in life is unmet expectations.
~ Laura Lee Guhrke
One couldn't spend one's entire life waiting for life to start.
~ Laura Lee Guhrke
Nothing causes more pain, frustration, and disappointment than unfulfilled expectations.
~ Laura Lee Guhrke
The waiting's not the hard part. Waiting can be beautiful, lush, full of possibility.
~ Laura Lippman
What makes a romance romantic, the beginning or the end?
~ Laura Lippman