Quotes About Anticipation

Our expectancies are rewarded by substances.

The train slowed down at the approach to shrewsbury station and glided between the eleventh-century abbey and the stadium of shrewsbury town football club. Two sacred arenas where men chanted and waited for a miracle that never came.

His fingers glided under the waistband of his shorts he edged them past his hips, highlighting the delicious V I always called the 'arrow to sexytimes.

Losing baby teeth were a part and parcel of one's life — a symbol of growing up, and it is the tooth-fairy that makes this otherwise dreaded and painful process an exciting one — something to look forward to.

a form of waiting that, depending on the circumstances, can resemble fascination, terror, curiosity, or hope.

Given the fleeting nature of the moment and the least event, the most important thing is to anticipate being able to see it again in order to believe it, to anticipate the absence that already looms, the shadow cast by an elusive present. This is the opposite of what is sometimes called the work of grieving, which tends to allay the forgetting. It is not a question of admitting that the other is no longer there but of assuring oneself of having been there, in person.

The ages of life can be evoked independently from the progression that advancing age implies, by means of anticipation, which lays out a future, or memory, which recreates the past, and in any case, by letting the imagination play with time.

Predictions are difficult to make, particularly when they concern the future." —Pierre Dac

Quizá contestes a esta postal, quizá encuentre una carta tuya cuando vuelva a casa, quizá vengas a buscarme. Me parece que estoy harto de tanto "quizá".

Just that you should expect as much as any other woman.

I expect relief and life-changing impact from everything.

Nos jours ne sont beaux que par leur lendemain.

This is not a very surprising story; but wait a minute; it's going to be.

A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

A catherdral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.

Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.

But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.

The air of those rooms was saturated with the fine bouquet of a silence so nourishing, so succulent, that I never went into them without a sort of greedy anticipation, particularly on those first mornings, chilly still, of the Easter holidays, when I could taste it more fully because I had only just arrived in Combray[...]

A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

As a man with imagination you can enjoy only in regret or in anticipation—that is, in the past or in the future.

But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting;

I felt even disappointed when he resumed the thread of his narrative.

as a painter who can have his subject for short sittings only prepares his palette, and from what he remembers and from rough notes does in advance everything which he possibly can do in the sitter's absence.