Quotes About Anticipation

There is a strange thing about anticipation," Fionchadd told him. "It is generally both more and less than the actuality that follows. A thing desired is rarely as pleasant to possess as it is to anticipate; a thing dreaded is rarely so foul.

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

It's a much easier job when you know what to expect on offense.

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

I'm the type of person who, if somebody offers me a free meal, I get excited because you never know where your next free meal is going to come from.

Once I found out that I had officially been entered in the Royal Rumble, I took some time to myself to sit down and try to comprehend what was going to take place later that night. I couldn't.

If you have to forecast, forecast often.

The first record with an artist oftentimes can be the most exciting. When it's not routine for them, when it's really new is the best moment in their careers.

It's a great experience. Every time I see the belly getting bigger, and I see the sonogram and I hear his heartbeat, I'm like 'Oh, man.'

The mind is more powerful than anything. So, during the birth I wasn't thinking about the pain. I was in a meditation state. I was concentrating the whole time, thinking, 'Oh my God, it's time. I am going to meet my baby. What is he going to look like?'

You can't open anything after your 50. You have to wait 'til people stop by the house. 'Oh my God, I'm glad you're here.'

I've had many songs where I've gone, 'Oh, my God, this song is going to be huge!' but it wasn't the right artist, or something just didn't happen. It didn't make the song any worse. It just didn't line up. That does happen.

I always thought: 'Oh my God, we are going to be famous, we're going to be huge.' We were 21, 22 years old.

Understand that life is journey. I haven't achieved the success I wanted to achieve yet, but that's OK - it's coming.

It's always nice when you see an email in your inbox that says 'offer,' then you read the email and go, 'Oh, okay. Who's doing it, what's it about?'

Okay - before I even had a baby, I would dream of the day I could make ponytails on my kid. I don't know why. I somehow got it in my head that it would be such a cool thing.

When I was a kid, I had this idea that I would have a beard when I got older. I thought it'd be nice to rub my chin.

I had older brothers, and I don't think there's anything worse than an older brother. They pretty much told me the end of everything they got to see before I did.

I'm quite excited to think that I will run the Olympic race here next year.

The Olympic gold was like going to a theater and seeing a movie that had the ending you expected. But you left the theater thinking, 'You know, that was a good movie.'

I was almost expecting the Olympics to be the biggest thing ever, but it wasn't. It was just another race.

I really want to do the Olympics. Obviously, I can't let things out of the bag, so to speak.

I'm not allowed to celebrate as normal eighteen year olds probably would but I'm going to save it for after the Olympics!