Quotes About Anticipation

Summer was coming.

Her knees began to shake, not because he was beautiful, which he had always been, but because coming into this room with him here waiting for her…it was like coming home.

And he waited—as he always had—for life to come and find him.

It was as if I was a character in a movie and the real action was about to start at any minute. But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start. Do you know what I mean, Pasquale?

For years. It was as if I was a character in a movie and the real action was about to start at any minute. But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start.

It was as if I was a character in a movie and the real action was about to start at any minute. But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start.

waiting for her movie to start," and that she'd almost missed out on her life waiting for it.

Other women were like presents he was constantly disappointed in unwrapping

I think there are very few people who have a capacity to see the future. So it can be difficult when you are talking about something where nothing about it exists yet.

Much better to figure out where the marketplace is going to be in a few years, focus on providing a solution to that, and let the market forces catch up to you.

As much as you're terrified, you're also starting to feel the rush, the thrill you get from being on the brink.

Why are you more nervous than I am? He's going to love you. And the cheese. All the cheeses.

So she would wait for him. Because one day, Finn would be home. One day, they could see what this really was between them. Julie

When he sees me coming, he joyfully holds up a box and yells, "See? I told ya! Coffee, toast, eggs, and bacon! All at once! It's a miracle!

The thought of Christmas overwhelms him. He no longer looks forward to the holiday; he wants only to be on the other side of the season. His impatience makes him feel that he is incontrovertibly, finally, an adult.

The future haunted but kept her alive; it remained her sustenance and also her predator.

Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold.

In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless at the same time.

She was like that, excited and delighted by little things, crossing her fingers before any remotely unpredictable event, like tasting a new flavor of ice cream, or dropping a letter in a mailbox. It was a quality he did not understand. It made him feel stupid, as if the world contained hidden wonders he could not anticipate, or see.

I grow sad looking at all those brand-new suitcases, all of them empty, waiting for a traveler, waiting for various things to fill them, waiting for someplace to go.

She knew that the word providence meant foresight, the future beheld before it was experienced.

Willfully anticipating, in ignorance and in hope—this was how most people lived.

She wanted to shut her eyes to it. She wished the days and months ahead of her would end. But the rest of her life continued to present itself, time ceaselessly proliferating. She was made to anticipate it against her will.

There had been nothing worse than waiting for it to come; the void that followed was easier to bear than the solid weight of those days.