Quotes About Anticipation

Of course, this kind of speculation was a waste of mental energy, and he knew it. All they could do at that point was watch and wait.

Why didn't he show up?

But without warning, she leapt up with a gasp of excitement. "Guys," she said. "You need to see this.

Some time later, although Walter couldn't have guessed how long if he'd been paid to do so, he became aware of a warm, spicy, almost ambrosial smell.

She felt excited for no particular reason, in anticipation of exactly what she wasn't sure. It was sort of like everything - the rumble of the boat, the ocean spray that misted her face, the sight of Venice receding in the distance and the warm, bright morning sun that promised a day filled with possibility - contained in this one moment held all the best moments of all the best summer days she'd ever known.

So blissful in taking this time for creating all things blossoming new on the horizon ... album, baby & beautiful music to come.

This life of ours can feel an awful lot like waiting

Thinking about all of this, I feel a sudden rush of anticipation, an abstract yearning. Unfamiliar as it is, I do remember it. I experienced this feeling as a little girl the night before Christmas, and later when I was applying to college, and even later when I moved to New York. It's a longing for things to come, possibilities unfolding before me, the charged expectation of change.

My hands are clammy. It's a terrible kind of anticipation, not knowing what we're walking into. The last time I felt this way I was in the waiting rooms at Ellis Island.

My hands are clammy. It's a terrible kind of anticipation, not knowing what we're walking into. The last time I felt this way I was in the waiting rooms at Ellis Island. We were tired, and Mam wasn't well, and we didn't know where we were going or what kind of life we would have. But now I can see all I took for granted: I had a family. I believed that whatever happened, we'd be together. A policeman blows a whistle

The truth is, even if you make a pact with yourself that you're not looking and don't care, a piece of you is always waiting for love to happen.

Maybe, I think, someone here will want me. Maybe I'll have a life I've never dared to imagine, in a bright, snug house where there is plenty to eat—warm cake and milky tea with as much sugar as I please. But I am quaking as I make my way up the stairs to the stage.

It's a longing for things to come, possibilities unfolding before me, the charged expectation of change.

The birthday of my lifeIs come, my love is come to me.

Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth...

Have done with sorrow I will bring you plums tomorrow.

An expectation is defined as "an eager anticipation for something to happen." A goal is defined as "a purpose or objective." When we are clinging to expectations, we are waiting for something to happen and giving our power away.

Study the past if you would define the future. —Confucius O

When they drove past it on the motorway, he used to fantasise that his parents were about to turn their vehicle towards the car park and surprise him, say the boot was full of secretly packed luggage and they were heading off for a fortnight. When he had kids of his own, he'd told himself, he'd surprise them that way for real.

tendency to seize upon the most optimistic timetable for completing a project and ignore any information that might make you revise that prediction. According

In her brain she runs a computer program to evade dooms no one has even considered. There's nothing she hasn't thought of, and thought of and thought of, poor woman.

The Eighth Month Approximately 32 to 35 Weeks

Here on earth we find ourselves in a waiting room.

I didn't want to go to sleep knowing I would just wake up in the morning.