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Quotes About Anticipation

Expected surprises.
~ Unknown
Customers who want your product are partially sold before they see you.)
~ Unknown
When I'm able to slough it off, when it's not causing physical symptoms or putting me on edge, my anxiety still pops up out of nowhere to spoil nice moments. I fear good things happening because I believe something bad is sure to follow.
~ Jen Lancaster
Now, if there's a Hell–and my actions are predicated in anticipation of this–my version, my eternal punishment includes thirty local eight-year-olds dancing the Tarantella.
~ Jen Lancaster
Crean stepped around her desk and motioned toward the door. Now Nadine's skin prickled with anticipation. This is how it begins. Rationalizing. Telling herself that she had no choice, when deep down hunting killers hiding in plain sight was exactly what she'd always wanted to do—if she were only brave enough. But the prospect scared her, brushing so close to what she most feared.
~ Unknown
Don't even think about it. Well, when can I walk by myself? When you get your driver's license. You always, always say that. Dillie scowled at him. That's when everything happens. It's going to be a busy day, Phin agreed.
~ Jennifer Crusie
We're going to need a bigger dock
~ Jennifer Crusie
There was something about having a plan for dinner, a recipe in hand, that made her feel much less hostile about food.
~ Jennifer Crusie
Sometimes stories are just previews of coming truths.
~ Jennifer Crusie
Can we go to work now? Because we're about a minute away from breaking out the
~ Jennifer Crusie
P.S. I hope BOB doesn't come tonight.
~ Jennifer Lynch
none of which filled the hours that dragged by, until it was three o'clock and time to take the bus to Uncle Mel's. Each week, Bethie would
~ Jennifer Weiner
Viitorul exist? ?i sunt nerabd?toare s?-l tr?iesc.
~ Jerome Charyn
That is the only way to get a kettle to boil up the river. If it sees that you are waiting for it and are anxious, it will never even sing. You have to go away and begin your meal, as if you were not going to have any tea at all. You must not even look round at it. Then you will soon hear it sputtering away, mad to be made into tea.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
One example of a solid but inexplicable fact, ruling all human affairs - your fireworks won't go off while the crowd is around.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Noto che la gente fa sempre giganteschi preparativi per il bagno quando si sta per avvicinare all'acqua, ma che poi, una volta nei pressi, sono ben pochi quelli che si tuffano.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
I looked at the piles of plates and cups, and kettles, and bottles and jars, and pies and stoves, and cakes, and tomatoes, &c., and felt that the thing would soon become exciting. It did. They started with breaking a cup. That was the first thing they did. They did that just to show you what they COULD do, and to get you interested.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
The sun will shine in my back door one day..
~ Jerry Garcia
I think of the flower in the bud: huddled, compressed, dark. Yet somehow it feels the night, knows moon from sun. It waits...waits.
~ Jerry Spinelli
I'm that way, goofy as it sounds. Sometimes I don't want things to happen-I'm talking about good things, even wonderful things-because once they happen, I can't look forward to them anymore. But there's an upside, too. Once a wonderful thing is over, I'm not all that sad because then I can start thinking about it, reliving and reliving it in the virtual world in my head.
~ Jerry Spinelli
When I walk in your door I want to be thrilled
~ Jerry Spinelli
No matter what day it is, no matter what time, no matter where I am - I'm always at the star party, staring at the slhouette on the crest of the hill, whishing that one dark shape would split in two. But it never does.
~ Jerry Spinelli
Chance waited patiently until she stopped.
~ Jerzy Kosi?ski
Paulie Aandeg disappeared on September 5. September 5 is my due date.
~ Jess Lourey