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Quotes About Anticipation

I, for one, get rather annoyed when I settle into a nice bubble bath with some Belgian chocolate and a mystery at my side only to discover that all of the characters in the latter are still alive at the end.
~ Unknown
I'm so ready for school.....to end.
~ Unknown
During summer, you wish you were in school so would have something to do. In school, you wish it was summer so you'd have nothing to do.
~ Unknown
Death could be waiting for him, but he wasn't afraid. Whether it be sooner or later, he welcomed the inevitability with open arms.
~ Unknown
Summertime is always the best of what might be.
~ Charles Bowden
Gone, but only until we get there
~ Unknown
I'm going to enjoy this.""What?" I asked. "Hell?
~ J.X. Burros
Rejoice, for bad things are about to happen.
~ Ryan Sohmer
We are apart so that I will know the joy of being with you again. Take care of yourself, wherever you are. Take care of yourself, wherever you are.
~ Unknown
Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact.
~ Michael Bierut
The heart knows today what the mind will learn tomorrow.
~ Unknown
The future will look futuristic only because we will be trying to make it look futuristic.
~ Anonymous
One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.
~ Unknown
Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more.
~ Carole King
We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would retard it, it seems quite otherwise.
~ Catherine McAuley
It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.
~ Anouk Aimee
The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.
~ Frank Herbert, Dune
Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
~ Pierre Corneille
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
~ Samuel Smiles
Hope is merely another face of desire.
~ Christopher Moore
Make the expectations lively enough, and action will follow.
~ Mason Cooley
The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
~ Pliny the Elder
Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.
~ Hannah More
expectation isn't the same as desire
~ Margaret Atwood