Quotes About Anticipation

Savor the imminent weirdness of the day.

Summertime is always the best of what might be.

impatient. I had to do things the Army's way: hurry up and wait.

A woman has to have something on or there's nothing to take off.

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Because to prepare is to win, they said to each other. And they made a banquet in this honor. (Car préparer, c'est déjà gagner, se dirent-ils. Et ils firent un banquet en cet honneur.)"

Every lover has love that he converts to future. (Chaque amoureux a l'amour - Qu'il convertit en futur.)

The great men walk on their shadow: They anticipate the future. (Les grands hommes marchent sur leur ombre : Ils anticipent l' avenir)

The regrets are like yesterday: They announce only the future. (Les regrets sont comme hier: - Ils n'annoncent que le futur)

"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."

It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows, listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning.

Oh Sairey, Sairey, little do we know wot lays afore us!

When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.

and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.

For a long time, Oliver remained motionless in this attitude. The candle was burning low in the socket when he rose to his feet. Having gazed cautiously round him, and listened intently, he gently undid the fastenings of the door, and looked abroad.

Don't let your sober face elate you, however; you don't know what it may come to

My Uriah,' said Mrs. Heep, 'has looked forward to this, sir, a long while. He had his fears that our umbleness stood in the way, and I joined in them myself. Umble we are, umble we have been, umble we shall ever be,' said Mrs. Heep.

I clutched the leg of the table again immediately, and pressed it to my bosom as if it had been the companion of my youth and friend of my soul. I foresaw what was coming, and I felt that this time I really was gone.

I had a confident expectation that things would come round and be all square.

It does not take a long time," said madame, "for an earthquake to swallow a town. Eh well! Tell me how long it takes to prepare the earthquake?

to Life I. The Period II. The Mail III. The Night Shadows IV. The Preparation