Quotes About Anticipation

I could manage my life so much better if an app could tell me exactly when my parcels will be delivered so I don't spend the day under virtual house arrest.

The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.

You were not in control You had no visibility: maybe there was a car in front of you, maybe not.

I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are.

In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.

For Rita, joy isn't pleasure; it's anticipatory pain.

We're going out again," I announced at my final session with Evan. "But it's weird, because I don't feel the way I'm used to feeling. There was no chemistry, but I'm really looking forward to seeing him again." Evan smiled. "Isn't that chemistry?" he asked. "If you're excited to see someone again?

Uncertainty, I'm starting to realize, doesn't mean the loss of hope—it means there's possibility. I don't know what will happen next—how potentially exciting!

We are afraid to have hope for things that we might not get.

It's common for people with traumatic histories to expect disaster just around the corner. Instead of leaning into the goodness that comes their way, they become hypervigilant, always waiting for something to go wrong.

We tend to think that the future happens later, but we're creating it in our minds every day.

In some ways, Mary thought, Irma lived her whole life anxious to get things over with, as if she knew the end of her story all along, and didn't feel the middle pages worth the effort of a read.

Faithfulness began even before you met your intended.

Cause sometimes it's hard to let the future begin!

No matter how bad things get, Frannie darling, they can always get worse and they can always get better. Expect worse and you'll never be disappointed.Expect better and you'll always have something to look forward to.

He grinned. "You're my first with no covering and I must say, I like it very, very much. I fear, Duchess, that you are going to have many children.

Heaven belongs to the impetuous who won't wait.

Things always seem to end before they start

I'm waiting' for my man, Got twenty-six dollars in my hand. He's never early, he's always late, First thing you learn is that you always gotta' wait' - Waiting for the Man

I almost had to wait.

It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen.

One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!

In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.