Quotes About Anticipation

I thought about the bigger picture of my life, and about the people—and particularly the guys—I would encounter during my lifetime. How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed … connection?

Well what's in your Amazonian hope chest?

We've already established my position on dillying and dallying, which right now is chaste with a chance for inveterate lust, depending on the ripeness of our first interactions.

I want that. The getting younger with each step, because of anticipation, in hope and belief.

But there was something so empty about the prospect of a Christmas Day without opening presents

Ya sabes como es esa sensación que uno siente al esperar a alguien, y quiero decir, en verdad esperar a alguien.

This was insane! Yes, he was hot, but so was Nick. Yes, he was nice, but so was Nick. Yes, he sent shivers of anticipation through me. But so did Nick. Okay, so they weren't this strong. But they were there. Parker terrified me. Nick didn't. Nick was safe, like a carousel. Parker was the tallest, fastest, scariest thrill ride imaginable.

Hey, ya'll,can we go? Leah asked. The cute guys are gonna be taken by the time we get there. No,they won't be, Sam said,Because you'll be ariving with them.

It is an error not only of soul but also of body, for they that muster for the next world before it has come can only betray their lives in this one.

Looking back in time was very exciting to me. But looking forward is more challenging—nothing unfolds as you anticipate, and it's the small things, not the huge geologic shifts, that make or break you.

Remember, there are cookies waiting here for you.

Her imagination was such that she could hear the song of the bird when it was still but a yolk in an egg.

We make so many of our own troubles, from mere mishaps to disasters, by dwelling on the possibility of them until the possible becomes inevitable.

Hope, love and faith are in the waiting.

Whatever you expect is what will be, so simply change your expectations.

The combination of the song, the birthmark, and the cashier's haunting gray eyes generates in Vess an eerie sense of expectancy. Something exceptional is about to happen.

Even as I regarded those two men, I became aware of the flying beams of the spotlights, to the north-east, painting ephemeral infinity symbols across the pregnant clouds that increasingly commanded the sky, of the distant roller-coaster chain clacking through the ratchet angles of the guideway as cars full of riders climbed an incline toward the next long drop, of the dusty smell of the campground, and of the scent of rain pending.

Trouble was coming, sure, but it's always coming, and meanwhile it's best to live with a smile.

pitapatation

taut. She looked out of the windows, left and right—and her tail began to swish.

She waits until the thing is passing overhead, squeezes off a shot, then a second

Because, I can feel it coming, something powerful, the way you feel the air taking on weight when a thunderstorm is coming.

No matter how attentive their people were, dogs spent more time waiting than doing.

perhaps even before you can file the action. In fact, I guarantee it.