Quotes About Anticipation

Tomorrow Is Just A Dream Away

Acosta alludes to this, in his "History of the Indies," as follows: "In the beginning of the year 1518, they (the Mexicans), discovered a fleet at sea, in the which was the Marques del Valle, Don Fernando Cortez, with his companions, a news which much troubled Montezuma, and conferring with his council, they all said, that without doubt, their great and ancient lord Quetzalcoatle was come, who had said that he would return from the East, whither he had gone." [239:6]

Otherwise he was glad we had missed our landing, for he still had three books to read.

California, here I come.

They're waitin'. They're witin' for something that they feel is comin'. Something important, and great. Aren't they waitin' for the eternal part in them to come out clear?

Sit...down Are you ready for this? Shut...up Are you ready for this? Stand...up Are you ready for this? Let's SCREAM! Are you ready for this?

Look to the future, child," her father used to say. "This is why our feet point forward, not back.

You know you're the turtle, right? The one who comes and goes as he pleases while I wait for you?

Many of us, I suppose, see our existences not as lives, but as life-holders, zarfs, waiting for the job, the person, the event to fill it.

Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.

The most amazing part of life is yet to come.

herself about tomorrow.

It was an odd feeling, longing to see someone and dreading it at the same time.

Half the fun is plan to plan

Romance is a tender kiss with a lingering promise of more to come.

I'm getting a diamond-hard boner just thinking about it.

Shhh," said Serge. "The flashback is starting…

Ricky Hatton has no sense of anticipation of what's coming his way. You can teach him all you want, but he doesn't have those instincts.

Nobody can see into the future. Nobody knows what going to go on.

Nobody knows what the future holds.

Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.

I know what the Giller nominee effect is, but we'll see what the next level is.

The wish fulfillment of growing younger is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be. You have new problems that arise which you are not anticipating and you deal with the same problems you would deal with if you were ageing normally: what is the end of life about? What have I accomplished?

Normally, I have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the festive spirit. I'm not a Scrooge. But when I was growing up, Christmas didn't begin until mid-December.