Quotes About Anticipation

The trees sang their approval. Ruith cocked an ear and listened to them for a moment or two, smiled faintly, then continued on his way toward her. Sarah felt her breath catch, again. She wondered if there would ever come a day when she could look at him and yawn.

Louis XV's contention that after him would come the deluge

Bad news is still bad news - even if you're expecting it.

Fall asleep dreaming of the promise tomorrow brings.

Hope is the melody of the future. Faith is dancing to that melody right now.

Good things are coming. I know it. Today's disappointment is making room for tomorrow's appointment. Let's look for those good things with great intentionality.

If you wait for what your heart desires, you treasure it more when you finally do get it.

Wisdom makes decisions today that will still be good for tomorrow.

Dear Lord, I want to wait in calm and patient expectation today. Please take my exhaustion and turn it into expectation; take my feelings of hopelessness and give me real hope. I want to stop resisting Your truths and start applying them. I will do all that I can today, and I will wait with anticipation for all that You will do through me. In Jesus' name. Amen.

Usually, the most disappointing realities come from the most realistic expectations. An unmet longing from a realistic expectation is such a searing pain within a human heart.

Everyday starts as a repetition of the previous day & ends so with the hope that tomorrow will be no different.

Fear stretching out... is how you live 'forever'. You torture the seconds with worry, you anticipate everything that awaits you, you trouble time, and it becomes an agony of isolated, unconnected moments.

Every story begins with a tremble of anticipation. At the start we may have an idea of our point of arrival, but what lies before us and makes us shudder is the journey, for that is all discovery.

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It makes good times even better when you know they are going to end. Like grilled vegetables are better because some of them are partly soot.

The bus drives up past the old brick factories of Pawtucket and Woonsocket. Finally, in the distance we can see Boston, where slender homes float above the glass towers. I shudder and minutes seem to take forever, and then the bus arrives.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

It is important to remember that actions taken today depend largely on expectations about the future.

Thank you in advance for your interest in this book.

Tomorrow begins from another dawn, when we will be fast asleep.

If you do not flirt, how will you manage this marriage you anticipate making next season?" "I expect I will dance with her at balls a few times, call on her a few times, then propose." "How dreadful you make it sound. Poor girl." "Dreadful? Poor girl? She will be a duchess. Her family will be delirious with joy.

I shift, an infinitesimal movement, towards him. It is like the leap from a waterfall. I do not know, until then, what I am going to do.

He waits for you.

It was easy, in those moments, to forget that the war had not yet really begun.