Quotes About Anticipation

Byrd anticipated the crisis of loneliness. What he had not counted on was how closely a man could come to dying and still not die or want to die.

Let's get going," Towser urged. "Where do you want to go?" "Anywhere," said Towser. "Just start going and see where we end up. I have a feeling… well, a feeling-" "Yes, I know," said Fowler. For he had the feeling, too. The feeling of high destiny. A certain sense of greatness. A knowledge that somewhere off beyond the horizons lay adventure and things greater than adventure.

The journey in life never stops as long as you look forward.

The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all.

If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do.

When the cover was lifted to reveal nothing but a heaped plate of pineapple chunks, however, there were people in the audience who could take no more.

She feels "Brutal Dynasty" actually may become the Great American Novel she and her fellow critics have been looking for so long.

Inhale autumn, long for spring

It's good to hope; it's the waiting that spoils it (Yiddish

and Lewis felt excitement, and gratification. Somebody—some

Expectancy of anything is always oppressive. When

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.

He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Outside, in and about the snow and the dark, where fancies dangled and fear hung over the starched snow in rolling mists, something was coming to pass.

I think it's a bit like coming to the end of a book. The plot's in its thickest, all the characters are in a mess, but you can see that there aren't fifty pages left, and you know that the finish can't be far off.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

He's looking into the night, in case a shadow comes to listen and look.

Man hat es leichter, wenn man selber weg muß, die Angst wegträgt, und das Glück da läßt, und vom anderen erwartet wird. Zu Hause sitzen und warten dehnt die Zeit zum Zerreißen und treibt die Angst auf die Spitze.

Tudo o que está para vir, já aí está.

O tédio é a paciência do medo.

The Plane!, The Plane!

So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?