Quotes About Anticipation

I knew it was coming. I knew they didn't have the nerve. Three days in and they've got faces like vexed tomatoes, their skins flaking sci-fi style: burnt to fuck. They were an embarrassment; not only to me and the wife and The Fall fans but to their own generation.

Bad things happen fast: The brakes give out; the stroller goes bouncing down the steps; the lump of gristle sticks in your throat (and sticks). Good things are all about progress: effort, expectation, and desire, and something evermore about to be, as the poet says.

My water broke.

Yet it is your insight into people that gives you the ability to predict the future

And it's best if you know a good thing is going to happen, like an eclipse or getting a microscope for Christmas. And it's bad if you know a bad thing is going to happen, like having a filling or going to France. But I think it is worst if you don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing which is going to happen.

U.S. death rows, still displaying over 3,000 persons, are similarly sites of torture. After a person is sentenced to death, he or she is held in situations approximating solitary confinement, sometimes for decades, under prolonged and anguishing anticipation of the state's calculation of an execution date. Judges

to those places where the shadows of the future fall most darkly across the present.

I like stepping into the future. Therefore, I look for doorknobs.

Para nosotros ningún momento es completo en sí mismo. Cada momento se ve adulterado, empañado por lo que recordamos que ha sido y lo que anticipamos que será. En cada momento de nuestra vida la flecha del tiempo nos mantiene inocentes y moribundos, y por eso creemos que somos superiores a los demás animales.

It's like waiting for a roller coaster but with only misery ahead and no thrill.

If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

I believe That someone is already there and is waiting For the pale appearance of another.

fifty meters away and down the length of the stadium. An OT captain and a sergeant trailed him. Pino pressed himself tight to the tunnel

Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience 4000 critics

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

I know not what tomorrow will bring.

Let's stop the startwatch.

I think, in comedy, timing is everything. You and I could tell the same joke, but if one of our timing is off, it won't be as funny. You've gotta know when to deliver your punch-lines.

We do not know when he is coming. He is coming tomorrow.

Without him here, it is impossible to know how fast he will play it, approximately.