Quotes About Anticipation

I think about more than I forget, but I dont go around fire expecting not to sweat.

It came to him that he didn't like holidays. . . . They bore down on you. Each one always ended up feeling like an exam . . .

I'm usually better at protecting myself from this kind of thing." "From heartbreak?" "Yeah." My throat is closing. "I can usually get out of the way before it hits me straight on." "That's not really heartbreak then, is it?

My old friends are getting married, too. The invitations catch up with me eventually, forwarded from Oregon or Spain or Albuquerque. Unfortunately, sometimes these invitations arrive before the wedding has taken place.

We expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

Expectations placed low enough are rarely disappointed.

They hung, like mirages, shimmering in the future, and the closer you got to them the more you expected them to disappear. When his mother had gone over to work in the States for the first time and his father was supposed to have been making a special effort, Mr. Schock had still managed to turn up at Sports Day after Peter's big race. There was always another meeting, another client, another urgent matter demanding his attention.

What I like most about change is that it's a synonym for 'hope'.

I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready, I think I would have rather been watching.

Life's full of surprises

We look to envision what could go wrong, what will go wrong, in advance, before we start. Far too many ambitious undertakings fail for preventable reasons. Far too many people don't have a backup plan because they refuse to consider something might not go exactly as they wish.

spring did seem to come to this part of London earlier than to other, rougher neighbourhoods, the cherry-blossom anticipated warmer weather, as if the rich were owed nicer seasons.

I was the girl whose face fell when she saw a wrapped present in the shape of a box, perhaps a jigsaw puzzle. Worst of all, that preparation for the future slave-house of motherhood, a doll. I only wanted book tokens or books themselves – but better a book token. The worst present is the book you don't want to read.

At the moment, he kinda knew how the male praying mantis felt when he was approaching Ms. Mantis, knowing the sex was going to be great but he was going to gethis head bitten off. Ah, well. Some things were worth losing your head.

Wait until you see him up on a horse

The trip home always seemed to take half the time, because Murphy and Little Paint were eager for their dinner. We clung like burrs on their backs and rode like the wind. We were eager for our dinner too.

We'll see each other in about fifteen minutes

Something bad was about to happen. Uncle had been expecting it.

Hello, still waiting for an unexpected development? There was none. It happens. It happens all the time.

I like my women in a few wisps of drapery: then I can hope for a chance to remove the wisps.

Having achieved limited success under difficult circumstances (wrong boy, wrong mouth, sticky bus floor, lingering aroma of someone's forgotten banana, two girls--Miranda and Amy--not even bothering to pretend not to watch over the back of the next seat), Clementine felt adequately prepared for the real thing.

Vision is three-dimensional - consisting of insight, foresight, and perspective.

What goes up will surely fall and I'm counting down the time

Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home.