Quotes About Anticipation

She now lost every expectation of pleasure. They were confined for the evening at different tables, and she had nothing to hope, but that his eyes were so often turned towards her side of the room, as to make him play as unsuccessfully as herself

I know we shall be happy. I know the summer will pass happily away.

She found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had been looking with impatient desire did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

From Mrs. Bennett to Jane: I knew how it would be. I always said it must be so, at last. I was sure you could not be so beautiful for nothing!

Un plan que promete incontables placeres no puede triunfar; y el desencanto general sólo se conjura con ayuda de algún pequeño disgusto.

A few months more, and he, perhaps, may be walking here.

It taught me to hope, said he, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.

But a week must pass; only a week, in Anne's reckoning, and then, she supposed, they must meet; and soon she began to wish that she could feel secure even for a week.

Anne entered it with a sinking heart, anticipating an imprisonment of many months, and anxiously saying to herself, Oh! when shall I leave you again?

It taught me to hope,' said he, 'as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.

Prepare yourself for something dreadful.

Perfection should not have come quite so soon.

Troppo spesso succede che si distrugge la felicità preparandola, preparandola scioccamente!

Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered.

How much more must an imaginist, like herself be on fire with speculation and foresight!

The astonishment of the ladies was just what he wished; that of Mrs. Bennet perhaps surpassing the rest; though, when the first tumult of joy was over, she began to declare that it was what she had expected all the while.

To-morrow fortnight.

How did we get to the point where teachers hope for good results rather than plan for them?

She was unfailingly delighted by the surprise of each new day.

Everyone in that garden knew it was only a matter of time before he kissed her.

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All I could see was that the one year I was really primed for holiday cheer, no one else was cooperating.

I had a burden lift off me that I hadn't even felt the heaviness of until then, and it was the burden of having to wait and see what was going to happen.

Arthur said, You must know that you don't love children for being good or bad. I know you know that. Why do you love them? Because you do, said Arthur. Because they don't know what's coming and maybe you do.