Quotes About Anticipation

He says it while Churchill is rejoicing war will not come

Try to remember. Has there ever been a time when even a casual reading of a Bible passage would cause your heart to burn? Has there ever been a time when you were so anxious to visit the house of worship that it made your toes curl and your palms moist? Have you ever hungered for the word of God to a point that your heart ached with anticipation, so that you yearned for it as a deer pants for water?

One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow.

I shall have to produce an enormous number of things against next year - when the World's Fair will be held - seeing that my friends will not fail to have many interesting things on hand by then. Not that I myself or any of the painters I hold regular or special intercourse with are going to exhibit along with the others, but it is to be expected that there will be a free exhibition besides the official one. Now, for

Quand on aime on est toujours sur le quai d'une gare.

She knew how his mind worked. He would process their discussion over the next few days. At odd times he would utter an objection out of the blue. While buttering his toast he might say, "That lawn is a disaster, you know." Or when he slid into bed at night, "The property taxes are probably triple what we pay now." She would reply with a smile and a nod and revel in a secret satisfaction. Let him brood over the downsides, all the while becoming accustomed to the idea.

As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

Durante años me dije: "Por la mañana". Lo que, claro está, nunca ocurrió.

We cannot depend on change, but we can depend on surprise.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

The lesson of my childhood was that if you anticipate misfortune, you make it hurt less. It's a fool's truth, but what truth isn

For the next several minutes nothing much happened, biscuit wise.

Si veíamos a una persona, Madre se quedaba inmóvil, con los hombros en tensión, lista para salir corriendo.

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.

Whenever one is imagining a bright future, the next disaster is just around the corner.

To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.

Now then, we've had a capital lunch, and we're quite ready. Have all the painful preparations been made?

all I did not know went on beginning around me I had thought it would come later but it had been waiting

a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.

We all got up to dance. Oh, but we never got the chance!

Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein.