Quotes About Anticipation

Il faut penser à ce qui arrive - nous sommes les producteurs de l'avenir.

But she could not move of her own free will—an order from them would immediately have made her get up, but this time what they wanted from her was not blind obedience, acquiescence to an order, they wanted her to anticipate orders, to judge herself a slave and surrender herself as such. This, then, is what they called her consent.

Aquel al que se espera, porque se le espera, ya está presente, ya se muestra dueño y señor.

Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways -- and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.

If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise, said the seer. If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.

Life is always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways–and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.

People only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they'll get it.

now that she realized she had been waiting for him—she did not like that.

With every farewell comes a hidden hope.

You can't spend the whole day waiting for night to come.

Everyday was another day spent waiting.  Every night was another night when she might meet someone who would  recognize her true worth.

Remember: when someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

It is bound to come a moment when what seems close is still very far away.

Each would always be fascinated by the other–so long as each remained exactly what the other imagined.

Experience has taught me that people only give values to things if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they will get it

Well, maybe I just want to know the future so I can prepare myself for what's coming. If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise, said the seer. If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.

But I'm afraid that it would be all be a disappointment, so I prefer just to dream about it.

in the blank spaces between the letters. In the moment when a note of music ends and the next one has not yet begun (Coelho/Nabil Alaihi, age unknown, Bedouin 2007:99).

You know that there is a city on the far side of the ocean. But you haven't yet found the ship, nor have you loaded your bags, nor crossed the sea. Why spend time commenting on what it is like, or how one should walk through its streets?

That was a matter suspended between heaven and earth, awaiting the hand of destiny.

em," she said softly. "That guy with the sexy voice told 'em to get ready

Mi señor, ¿has visto el amanecer esta mañana? Se hubiera dicho que la tierra saltaba al encuentro del sol. Al principio, todo era oscuridad; luego surgió la luz como una nota musical. Mi señor, yo soy tu pobre tierra, que espera.

flexibility often have a weakness in emotional control as well. Their inflexibility often leads them to become angry or anxious when they are confronted with an event they weren't anticipating.