Quotes About Anticipation

Be prepared fpr a journey, but don't expect a destination.

Tomorrow is your future's yesterday.

In the great balancing equations of Dog's mind, there are two things he cannot resist - ham, and me holding open a vehicle door. I'm pretty sure that ham is first and the only reason me holding open a vehicle door is in the running is because it might mean that we are going somewhere to get ham.

I always wondered about men who spent their time trying to anticipate and know a fish in a world where man's knowledge of each other could only be called scarce. It just seemed to be gratuitously ignorant for any man to think that he could think like a fish.

Maybe it was just what happens when you finally get something you want and it turns out not to be what you wanted after all. You spend most of the time in life running after things that aren't that important, and the pursuit becomes more desirable than the prize.

Steve Jobs was quoted in Business Week as saying "A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

Sometime in the future - 25 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too.

Too often, she looked forward to the end of something—to beginning the remembering—more than the thing itself.

In some inexplicable way she'd been looking forward to it and all its attendant drama, because wasn't there something nearly lovely—when you were young enough—about guts churning and tear ducts being put to glorious overuse?

How tragic could a breakup be when it was a part of the fabric of expectation from the beginning?

I must have more. Her lashes slowly lifted and her bright stare met his once more. Her breath was coming fast, so was his, and he waited for her to speak. "That was…" She smiled. "Can we go again?" Fuck, yes.

What is it that you want from me?" Everything. But they'd get to that... soon enough.

Can't. Come. Yet. He had to be inside her before he came, and she—she had to be on her second orgasm by then.

This is the part where I kiss you.

events. First, just after I sat my finals at art college, the boys' breakthrough arrived: after almost two months of agonising, they heard that George Martin wanted them to sign a contract with Parlophone Records. We

Someday soon," he says. "I promise.

You knew beforehand that when you opened the magazine you would find the nasty anger of the pure-hearted.

When a daring idea first crosses one's mind, if it is to be realized in the future it is often appealing. Then, as the time for its execution comes nearer, one begins to dread that which had once been anticipated.

Do not always expect good to happen, but do not let evil take you by surprise.

Hobey-ho here we go.....

She was a little frightened in anticipation and a little frightened when the test came, but fortunately she was in control of her fear. She pushed it into a corner of her mind and barricaded it in. This left her mind perfectly clear and free to function properly. Of course, one had to keep an eye on the barricade, though Frances, smiling to herself at the absurd simile; one had to see that it was holding firm and keeping the fear-beast from bursting out and making a nuisance of itself . . .

but the moment one started home one was filled with impatience. Amberwell pulled like a magnet; the nearer one approached the harder it pulled.

The only human beings in the neighborhood who were not looking forward to a happy day were members of the local constabulary, for it seemed pretty certain that a good many otherwise law-abiding people would come in motor cars, burning gas that had been allotted them for domestic purposes only, and the English bobby does not fancy himself in the role of Gestapo official.

If it wasn't that it was all arranged I'd back down," declares Annie frankly. I assure Annie that a lot of people feel like that as their wedding day approaches. "Yes," says Annie. "Mrs. Fraser did too. Mrs. Fraser says it's like 'aving a tooth out. You're sorry you ever came when you find yourself in the dentist's chair, but you're all the better for it afterwards.