Quotes About Anticipation

Never set your stomach for a jelly-bread sandwich until you're sure there's some jelly!

Duck, big brother! Here comes another day!

There's the house where that little red-haired girl lives... Maybe she'll see me, and come rushing out to thank me for the Christmas card I sent her... Maybe she'll even give me a hug... Maybe Billie Jean King will call me tonight, and invite me out to dinner.

Rats! Sometimes it's very difficult being a dog... Especially when it's raining. You're looking forward to a great breakfast... When it arrives, you're full of joyful anticipation... Then you see the water rise in your dog dish... And you watch your pancakes float downstream!

I have a feeling that this is going to be a good year." "What makes you think so?" "I don't know... It just has all the appearances of a good year." "Have you looked in all the corners?

Wouldn't you like just for once to see Charlie Brown hit that ball?" "No... I'm not prepared to have the world come to an end!

A watched supper dish never fills!

Waiting for somebody does that. It turns minutes to hours, hours to days, and days to several lifetimes.

During the months preceding the trial

Hope sees what is not, but yet will be.

Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.

If you fail to plan, you're planning to fail.

My thoughts have become like the ancient Hebrew in two tenses only, past and future - I was and I shall be with you.

Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.

our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.

The world does not end tonight And the fruit that we will pick tomorrow Await us, weighing the unstripped bough.

I don't know how, or whether it is even possible to predict what the world will look like the next day. I simply have to close my eyes, and wait until tomorrow in order to find out.

Não consigo dormir esta noite. Encontro-me perante algo novo, algo pleno de expectativas. O futuro imediato é demasiado tentador para poder dormir.

I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not- (again he stopped)- did not (he proceeded hastily) strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing.

One could not see them without feeling it was the first chapter of a novel.

But still it was a lovely thing Through the grey months to wait for Spring

ONE of the most distinctive features of the human mind is to forecast better things. "We look before and after And pine for what is not.

Whatever you think this is going to be like," she whispers, "it's going to be worse.

The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing --- and then they marry him.