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Quotes About Anticipation

What you saw is what I showed you. What you are seeing is what I'm showing you. What you are going to see, you can't even imagine the future me.
~ Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
...sometimes I get tired. Sometimes I get bored. And sometimes all I want, more than anything else in the world, is to go on a freaking date.
~ Kiersten White, Paranormalcy
I have no fear of death, except I hate waiting for it.
~ Doug Stanhope
The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.
~ George Eliot
We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.
~ John Osborne
If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.
~ Emily Dickinson
Always be ready; always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.
~ Thomas a Kempis
One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.
~ John Green, Looking for Alaska
OH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE STOCKING THAT MAKES A NOISE, said Death. OTHERWISE, WHAT IS 4:30 A.M. FOR?
~ Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
That's it," he told Shepsie Tirschwell, "I can't live any longer not knowing what will happen tomorrow
~ Philip Roth
I never think in terms of expectations. My expectation is how to deal with bad news.
~ Philip Roth
TUNNEL, TURNPIKE, parkway—the shore! Sixty-five minutes south and there it was!
~ Philip Roth
La fe consiste en creer por anticipado algo que solo tendrá sentido cuando se mire hacia el pasado.
~ Philip Yancey
We will have to cut our coats to suit our cloth, and wait and see.
~ Philippa Gregory
I also felt a storm in the air. It prickled on the horizon. I felt it on my skin. The skies were clear, I could not wish for clearer. But I could feel the clouds massing against me, somewhere over the horizon.
~ Philippa Gregory
One little boy, and he a bastard,' Anne said thoughtfully. 'One little girl of six, one elderly Queen and a King in the prime of his life.' She looked up at the two of us, dragging her gaze away from her own pale face in the water. 'What's going to happen?' She asked. 'Something has to happen. What's it going to be?
~ Philippa Gregory
The queen sees me coming, turns toward us and waits, with a killer's patience, for me to reach the chancel steps.
~ Philippa Gregory
But don't run too fast," my sister warned. "Remember he has to catch you.
~ Philippa Gregory
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
~ Unknown
Wait til Halloween! That was the battle cry these days, except that neither Caroline nor her sisters were sure exactly how Halloween would change things.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
I just know she's going to go there today and sneak down in that cellar." "So?" said Jake. "Then what?" asked Josh. So? Then what? After all his brilliant work luring Caroline to the cellar, his brothers didn't know what to do? "What do you mean, then what?" squawked Wally. And he suddenly realized he didn't know either. He put his imagination on fast-forward.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Esther knows nothing about alcohol, and says, "My dream was someday ordering a drink and finding out it tasted wonderful.
~ Unknown