Quotes About Anticipation

People who think nothing can go wrong are usually disappointed.

Imagining the worst doesn't keep it from happening

Hal is on his way." The nurse announced reentering the room.

If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down

I pushed the door open, slow as long division.

I was in my favorite seat in the library, but it wasn't helping me like the book any better. It was a book people kept putting in my hands and telling me I was going to love, the way the doctor tells you the needle won't hurt a bit. The book began the way it always began before I gave up on it: with a man carrying around a drawing or a snake that had just eaten, and asking people what they thought of it. I thought it was no way to start up a conversation.

People who think nothing could go wrong are usually disappointed.

It is never seven that you count to, before you do something. It is never at the count of two. It is always three, and it is strange.

heart pounding

Reconocer el terreno» significa observar un lugar concreto para poder urdir un plan. Por ejemplo, si eres un ladrón de bancos —aunque espero que no sea así—, quizá vayas al banco unos días antes de robarlo. Quizá con un disfraz, mires aquí y allá, observando a los guardas de seguridad, las cámaras y otros obstáculos, para poder planear cómo evitar que te capturen o te maten en el transcurso del robo.

Waiting is one of life's hardships

You'll soon find out that much of this job involves a lot of waiting around," the hook-handed man said. "I usually keep something around to help pass the time, like a deck of cards or a large rock.

Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.

It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches.

waiting at the bus stop. Only then did he feel safe. He turned abruptly

Perhaps all fear is worse than reality, just as all hope is better than fulfilment.

The good news is, the stock market is closed and it can't hurt us again until tomorrow.

If I had learnt nothing else from my study of the methods of the three great men sitting near me, I had learnt this, that they would eventually pick out the one person I had not suspected. So I followed the simple plan of suspecting everyone. I was determined not to be surprised.

There were only three things which SOE's agents could anticipate with confidence. That their parachutes would open, that their L-tablets would kill them, and that their messages from London would be accurately encoded.

I didn't know you were going. What are you coming for?" she said, letting fall the hand with which she had grasped the doorpost. And irrepressible delight and eagerness shone in her face. "What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said, "I can't help it.

There I sat and waited. Alone in the dark. Because that's what detectives do. We sit. We watch. And we wait. Sooner or later something happens. It always does.

As I think of it, there's an ache in my chest. I cannot control these dreams in which she seems to lie in my future like a whole season of extravagant meals if only I knew how to arrange it.

Yes, he thought, I am ready, I have always been ready, I am ready at least.

Yes, he thought, I am ready, I have always been ready, I am ready at last.