Quotes About Anticipation

No—wait. I'm coming back.

God forbid that anyone should neglect present duties! To sit idly waiting for Christ, and not to attend to the business of our respective positions is not Christianity but fanaticism. Let us only remember in all our daily pursuits that we serve a Master who is coming again. If I can stir up just one Christian to think more of that second coming and to give it more prominence, I feel that this book will not have been published in vain.

There you have it! - How they anticipate my wishes, how they grant friendship's little attentions, which are worth a thousand times more than breathtaking presents that merely prove the giver's vanity and humiliate us.

Today, that Teammate wasn't there to give Reece a hard time about his coffee predilections. He was waiting for Reece farther up the road.

Generals always fight the last war

Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.

It was an ordinary day, a Friday, twenty minutes til lunchtime, five hours til quitting time and the weekend, ten months til vacation, thirty-seven years til retirement. Then the phone rang.

Sometimes waiting for a question to finish is like watching someone draw an elephant starting with the tail first. As soon as you see the tail your mind wanders all over the place and you think of a million other animals that also have tails until you don't care about the elephant because it's only one thing when you've been thinking about a million others.

Let's hope that when you're coming down I'll be looking up.

as the Charles Dickens formula for success has it: "Make them laugh. Make them cry. But, most of all, make them wait."6

Charles Dickens formula for success has it: "Make them laugh. Make them cry. But, most of all, make them wait."6 The

Readers know full well that when a writer takes pains to tell them a character doesn't expect the worst, she's about to get it.

Therefore, anticipate cheapness.

Next, think about the future for one simple reason—you are going to spend the rest of your life in the future.

Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

She knew exactly how he was feeling, because experience had taught her that the kind of excitement she was feeling at that moment was never, ever one-sided. On the contrary, she knew that it was born of acute and mutual anticipation, and she knew, too, that it would not be denied.

There's a formula to my films-people expect certain things out of a Jackie Chan film-but within those expectations, I want to give people a shock

I prepare for the worst, but hope for the best.

unaware of the fate around the corner.

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

It's as if my footprints were already on the road before I even got there.I walk into them, my waiting footprints.

Expectations are pre-meditated resentment.8

Or would you feel how my love is wrapped around by the richest, the wildest song? And, if I said my love for you is like the time when the nightingale is absent from our twilight world, would you hear it as silence? Nothing? No love? Or as anticipation of that rich current of music, which fills heart, soul, body, mind.

And, if she dreamed of him first, before ever they met, it did not surprise her, for she knew the power dreams hold.