Quotes About Anticipation

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.

His wit invites you by his looks to come,But when you knock it never is at home.

I haven't done anything--yet.

From the shade of the Ivy covered porch the old men sat in ladder back chairs and watched the hot blacktop. They'd sit day long and wait for something to happen, anything to happen, waiting for the road to entertain them. These were old man in clean shirts and suspenders and pants so roomy they could've held another old-timer and shoes split down the sides for comfort.

Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.

They sought to answer such questions as What is the intended destination for this business in ten or twenty years? What must management be doing today to raise the probability of arriving at that destination? And what could prevent this company from reaching such a favorable destination?

We have a name for the Second Coming but none for a second coming.

For a while, every day, even though the snow was piled and the sky dead and the winter wind was blowing, I watched for my aunt to come again and bring me a book like my ma'd said she would. She never came.

My job is to bore you and let the hardness of your seat and the warmth of your robe prepare you for what is to come.

exhibited the mannerisms of a nervous man. He had glanced around too frequently in the waiting area, had drummed his fingers on the bench, had tapped the boarding pass on his knee, had eyed every fellow passenger in the tree-shaded square.

The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.

nuclei accumbens fire not only with reward, but even more intensely with its anticipation, be it culinary, sexual, social, or financial.

Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.

We entered a period in which every moment was weighted with both the absolute necessity of hope and a terrible and almost unbearable anticipation of the worst.

Eddie now?" Larson asked. "Maybe she waited until

You are not prepared.

Instead he lifted up his head and turned his neck so he could catch sight of the man just as he reached the back of the house—a darkly clothed figure with short legs and broad shoulders, his wide back hunched and powerful, running quite quickly despite a slight limp, ripping open the door with massive arms, tearing out into the light, glancing back with a quick twist of his huge neck before jumping like a cheetah over the fence.

I expect to lose. I always do. And life seems eager to exceed my expectations.

I had suspected there might be some shoe discarding so I made sure my socks were without holes that day.

We're coming! She felt like shouting it to the sky. We're on our way!

There are two kinds of adventurers those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.

With what a leaden and retarding weight Does expectation load the wing of time!

They looked as if they were trying to threaten their own destination into appearing.

She looked like a woman you might jump a few lights to get home to.