Quotes About Anticipation

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

We have waited here long in the dust; we are tired and hungry; but the triumphal procession must appear at last.

But when launches were delayed, everything moved into a strange sort of limbo...a launch that was supposed to have gone up one morning but wouldn't attempt again until the next made us all feel we were living in a day that didn't count, a day between parentheses.

Something is going to happen, Laura thought. She was going to be kissed. On one side of a kiss was childhood, sunshine,innocence, toys and, on the other, people embracing, darkness, passion and the admittance of a person who, no matter how loved, must always have a quality of otherness, not only to her confidence, but somehow inside her sealing skin.

?akal bom ladje, sedel bom v katerem izmed bifejev ob pristaniš?u, na z apnom pobeljenem dvoriš?u, z uzom in mezeji in piškoti iz medu in mandljev z medom in mandlji pred sabo ... vdihaval bom te sladke vonjave. In ?akal. Sedel bom na modrem stolu in ?akal. Gledal bom menjavanje letnih ?asov na nebu z odprto knjigo na srcu. Ob morju se nebo hitro spreminja. Življenje se zgosti pred temi široko odprtimi vrati.

Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.

There's hope around the corner.

I'm going to buy a box tomorrow.

Nothing at all, but I'm not sure I'm ready for it. I'd hate to get used to something I'm not ready for.

Was tomorrow going to see the end of her long-guarded virginity?

The point of creating futures is to get people to imagine what they want and don't want to happen down the road – and maybe do something about it.

I swear to you, although it defies logic, that at least one cat always knows when it's Saturday morning and she's entitled to tuna.

Snow lies on my fields though the air is so warm I want to roll on my back and wriggle. Sure, the dark downhill weep shows who's winning, and the thatch of tall grass is sticking out of the banks, but I want to start digging and planting. My swelling hills, my leafbrown loamy soil interlaced with worms red as mouths, my garden, why don't you hurry up and take your clothes off ?

Waiting is one of the great arts.

Sometimes I wish the end would come... whatever it is

...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.

as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.

She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.

Maybe she's looking for us," Maureen would say hopefully. "Maybe!" nodded Paul.

The bus-driver was whistling, perhaps in anticipation of his wife, who would be a woman with ample breasts, those of a realized maturity. It would be impossible that he did not have, from my point of view, a wife and children, indeed, a happiness such as I could not imagine to be real, even like some legend out of the golden ages. He had spoken numerous times during our journey of his old woman waiting, and he was going home.

Anyway, I'm sure the guy lives a million miles away." "Or he could live right in your backyard. You never know." I nodded, keeping a poker face, even though the idea of Sir Leo living in my backyard was extremely appealing.

Individuals in this predicament may find it next to impossible to relax their wakeful hypervigilance in relation to their surroundings even when no longer confronted by any immediate challenge or danger; a prolonged or repeated exposure to trauma can put individuals on the defensive for the simple reason that it causes them to anticipate, and brace themselves against, more trauma.

The Playwright was excited in the way a child is excited on Christmas morning. I liked this. Most people didn't get excited about anything other than their own discontent.

Svolazza Beltempo : – Quasi sempre ciò che si desidera si avvera, solo che non si sa come né quando, ed è questo che rende i desideri così ingannevoli. Bisognerebbe desiderare solo ciò che si è pronti ad affrontare in qualsiasi momento: è importante rifletterci sopra.