Quotes About Anticipation

You never know what's ahead," Papa would say, his eyes brimming with excitement.

As I raced out of the office, I could hear Emily rapid-fire dialing four-digit extensions and all but screaming, 'She's on her way-- tell everyone.' It took me only three seconds to wind through the hallways and pass through the fashion department, but I had already heard panicked cries of 'Emily said she's on her way in' and 'Miranda's coming!' and a particularly blood curdling cry of 'She's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!

Miles was still mourning the loss of his Romantic Plan. 'There was going to be champagne, and oysters, and you' -- he held out both hands as though shifting a piece of furniture -- 'were going to be sitting there, and I was going to get down on one knee, and...and...

Magellan finally gave the command to weigh anchor on August 24. After the harrowing five-month layover

By May 18, they went ashore again, in a different bay, where they waited fifteen days for the missing ships.

Magellan realized that the empty chairs made for an ominous sign.

then, with mounting excitement, recorded that the wide mouth turned into a narrows farther ahead.

and that figure covered just enough food to see them through the first leg or two of the voyage.

God willing, I will soon be seeing you, whether by way of Portugal or Castile

The magickian lets go of his or her anticipation of the realization of his or her intention, so that he or she can get out of magick's way, and let his or her Future Reality do the Work.

The plan, a memory of the future, tries on reality to see if it fits.

we are in the position of a person who knows the ending of a book and who for amusement, is reading the early chapters. We enjoy them once again; but we are hardly thrilled and excited by them anymore, we know what happened

It's the not-yet in the now, the taste of the fruit that does not-yet exist, hanging the blossom on the bough.

I feel something vibrating and I really hope it's your phone." Serana told Dan, who blushed.

Architecture is slow and therefore requires anticipatory design.

Ik heb het ongelukkige karakter van iemand die altijd achter de volgende heuvel wil kijken, en die nog steeds niet geleerd heeft dat daarachter weer een andere heuvel ligt.

Looking out over the lake, she could not know that in three months she would be at its bottom.

Don't , she wanted to say, though she didn't know: don't what? She knew only that something was about to happen, and that nothing she could say or do would prevent it.

The letter arrives on a Friday. I would like that, very much.

Inside Lydia could feel it: everything that was to come . . . It was far away then, tiny in the distance, but Lydia already knew it would happen. The knowledge hovered all around her, clinging to her, every day getting thicker. Everywhere she went, it was there.

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

Attendre est encore une occupation. C'est ne rien attendre qui est terrible.

I CAN'T WAIT TO GO TO SCHOOL. THIS WILL PROBABLY BE A ONE-TIME-ONLY FEELING.

All that caring about what happens next.' He waited. 'Now nothing happens next.