Quotes About Anticipation

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

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

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The best way to meet any challenge is to be prepared for it.

The future is still unspoiled.

Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents.

she knew the real threat to her happiness came not from the dot in the distance, but from looking for it. Expecting it. Waiting for it. And in some cases, creating it.

The mixture of café au lait and impatience was producing an exquisite vibration.

Here it is then, the dark thing, the dark thing you have waited for so long. And after all, it is nothing new.

Had CC de Poitiers known she was going to be murdered she might have bought her husband, Richard, a Christmas gift.

he knew most places felt just a little sad in spring, when the bright and playful snow had gone and the flowers and trees hadn't yet bloomed. The

waited on my call, nor does any

the new notebooks. Always strangely thrilling. Unmarred. No mistakes yet. All they held was promise and potential.

It was one of life's little mysteries that this woman she had absolutely no respect for, could lay her flat. She thought she'd been ready for it. She'd even dared to harbour a hope that maybe this time would be different. But of course it wasn't.

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead. Most of these people are very immature. They lead "still" lives, waiting.' 'Waiting for what?

I can already feel myself getting fed up with boys and I haven't had anything to do with them yet" - Georgia Nicolson

I had to rush back into my bedroom because Mum suddenly came out of the room to the kitchen and shouted up to me: "Georgia, I know you are at the top of the stairs. Come down – you have a visitor and your father wants to speak to you." My father? Wants to speak to me? I have a visitor? It's like Blithering Heights. If Masimo is dressed in tight breeches and wearing a cravat I will truly go mad.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.

Something you always look for, but never know when it's going to happen

Battles are often won before they are fought.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

as if foreknowledge of an event could somehow buffer you from its reverbrations.