Quotes About Anticipation

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

I can go at any time now. -Arnie tells Becky

A dusty calendar was marked with the slogan TOMORROW WILL BE EVEN BETTER. It seemed ominous that the calendar was three years old.

College students, couples, people covered with eagle tattoos, boat captains, white-haired folks—we were all singing, waiting especially for the chorus

Still, as much as I had experienced, there was more waiting to be found. I had started out with a feeling of burning dullness and desperation. Now I was filled with a thrill and expectation of new discovery.

The most serious religious objection to Purgatory, on the part of Protestants, is that the anticipation of the pains of Purgatory detracts from a happy death ("blessed are the dead who from now on die in the Lord"—Rev 14:13). But that is like saying that the pains of labor detract from the joy of childbirth. Deferred happiness is still happiness. In

a man circling around a woman, or a hunter circling around a deer.

The Commanding General is well aware that the forecasts are no good. However, he needs them for planning purposes.

ON THE MORNING I was scheduled to die

My advice for the next decade: Keep on the lookout for tomorrow's big baggers. You're likely to find one.

The great joke is that the next time is never like the last time, and yet we can't help readying ourselves for it anyway. This all reminds me of the Mayan conception of the universe.

We are not preparing children for the world we have lived in but for a future that we can barely imagine.

the best time to start training for a job is when people have been talking about a surplus for several years and few others are entering it. That way, you finish your training just as the shortage develops."3 Traditionally

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Before each series I spent a lot of time visualizing new ways to neutralize our next opponent's attack.

My father told me what it used to feel like, waiting in the dentist's office. Every time the nurse opened the door you thought, It's happening. The thing I've been afraid of all my life.

Okay? You'll be a knockout. Listen, we'll buy a bottle of high-price Scotch and take it along. That Vat 69.' Frank

I've been waiting a long time for last year. But I guess it's just not coming again.

Logically, Sherri should have squeezed every moment of pleasure out of life during her remission, but the mind does not function logically, as Fat had figured out. Sherri spent her time anticipating the loss of her remission.

The mortal human only anticipates as a lower lifeform, the form to come....

My horse … is pregnant. … What do you say to that? ... I say pretty soon you'll have two horses

Around them there was nothing but silence, as if all the world were holding its breath.

One strange thing about stories is that you sometimes know how long they're going to be, even before you've begun thinking about them.

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