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Quotes About Anticipation

Some said the world would end in 1533. Last year had its adherents too. Why not this year? There is always somebody ready to claim that these are the end times, and nominate his neighbor as the Antichrist.
~ Hilary Mantel
He thinks, the cardinal would have known how best to manage this. Wolsey always said, work out what people want, and you might be able to offer it; it is not always what you think, and may be cheap to supply.
~ Hilary Mantel
This is the best he can hope for, unless. There is always unless.
~ Hilary Mantel
Exactly," he says. "And look, Gregory, it's all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it's no good at all if you don't have a plan for tomorrow.
~ Hilary Mantel
The wise councillor must always prepare for his fall.
~ Hilary Mantel
Which of these Thomases saw the blow coming? There are moments when a memory moves right through you.
~ Hilary Mantel
it's all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it's no good at all if you don't have a plan for tomorrow.
~ Hilary Mantel
I daresay something will happen, between now and '91, to make your fortunes look up.
~ Hilary Mantel
And look, Gregory, it's all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it's no good at all if you don't have a plan for tomorrow.
~ Hilary Mantel
Reculer pour mieux sauter.
~ Hilary Mantel
in case the dead ones rolled in late.
~ Hilary Mantel
It is a characteristic of Henry, to run before you to where you were not quite going.
~ Hilary Mantel
We don't have to invite pain in.It's waiting for us:sooner than later
~ Unknown
How can I give you nothing? Do you seriously expect me to buy nothing, wrap up nothing, stick a gift tag on nothing, send a card saying I really hope you like your nothing and lie awake worrying that the nothing I got you was the right color nothing you always anted? Have a heart!
~ Hilary McKay
If you come back I'll show you a secret," said Heinz.
~ Unknown
I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.
~ Hillary Clinton
Everyone hates knowing that tomorrow's Monday, but we live on thinking about how another fun Saturday will come around. It isn't always Monday!
~ Unknown
Nothing ever happens here. But when it does, it happens at the speed of lightning. You can change the world in a day. It might take forty-two years for that day to come, but when it does…
~ Hisham Matar
Besynnerligt, att det alltid går en rysning genom luften före soluppgången.
~ Hjalmar Söderberg
Because you're like a story that hasn't happened yet. Because I want to see what you will do. I want to be part of the unfolding of the tale.
~ Holly Black
It turns out that having kissed someone, the possibility of kissing hangs over everything, no matter how terrible an idea it was the first time.
~ Holly Black
Allow me to explain how my whole life has prepared me for this moment. I am used to girls screaming, and your screams – will be sweeter than another's cries of love.
~ Holly Black
Sometimes I felt like I was waiting for my life to begin and more than anything, in that moment, I wanted to force some kind of beginning. I wanted things to be different than usual. I wanted to bend reality.
~ Holly Black
If she'd known she was going to die at his hands, she would have dressed up.
~ Holly Black