Quotes About Anticipation

minutes to get home, unlike the morning.

the future, Hugues

What would it be like as an adult to open my eyes with a feeling of even mild anticipation?

A boy sees a girl topless for the first time only once, and the anticipation of the big reveal is really exciting. I feel like I'm a present being unwrapped.

Your muscles can tense with hope.

To be added when I get it cause I just realised I don't have it at the moment.

It'll be like a game of chess. We can let the game unfold as it did before, but if we want to avoid checkmate, we'll have to readjust the pieces a few moves shy of the finish.

I'll give you your Christmas present now if you'll give me mine. I shook my head. At breakfast. But it's Christmas now. Breakfast. Whatever you're giving me, she said, I hope I don't like it. You'll have to keep them anyway, because the man at the Aquarium said he positively wouldn't take them back. He said they'd already bitten the tails off the...

He opened the door wider. He's waiting. He gave me what was probably meant to be a significant wink, but a corner of his mouth moved more than his eye did and the result was a fairly startling face.

For years I feared the opening of every elevator, half-convinced that from the opened doors would come a bullet, for me, shot by a man in a tan trenchcoat. I have no idea why I feared this, expected it to happen. I even knew how I would react to this bullet coming from the elevator door, what word I would say. That word was: Finally.

When I rest my head on the couch I know that it's coming, coming like something in the mail, something sent away for. We know it is coming, but are not sure when—weeks? months? She is fifty-one. I am twenty-one. My sister is twenty-three. My brothers are twenty-four and seven. We are ready. We are not ready. People know.

It was like setting up a guillotine in the public square.You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it.

Clarifying things on the front end, when they first appear on the radar, rather than on the back end, after trouble has developed, allows people to reap the benefits of managing action. Getting

your vision, what did your mind naturally begin doing? What did it start to think about? "What time should we go?" "Is it open tonight?" "Will it be crowded?" "What's the weather like?" "Should we change clothes?" "Is there gas in the car?" "How hungry are we?" That was brainstorming.

What behavior might undermine what I'm doing, and how can I prevent it?

Minute-to-minute and day-to-day you don't have time to think. You need to have already thought. Obviously

Let our advance worrying become our advance thinking and planning. —Winston Churchill

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. —Winston Churchill

Let our advance worrying become our advance thinking and planning. —Winston Churchill Focus

Yes, Miss," I said. "They are much much more mysterious. The past, for instance, was present to the people who lived in it. And the future will quickly become the present and will just as quickly become the past. And in our thoughts, the past and the present and the anticipation of the future exist together.

But in the end, you can't kill what you can't see coming . . .

lay there, listening for the squeaks of the final

The prisoners had also turned to look at Mars. Those doing push-ups and pull-ups stopped. They wiped off their hands and moved back against the wall. And waited. Their expressions were clear. Thank God it's not me. The news had spread fast. Mars might be getting out after nearly being put to death.

knew there were guys inside waiting to kill you. He held the phone in front of the reader