Quotes About Anticipation

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting.

I keep staring out at this window, hoping that I'll see you arrive.

The day I met you I knew that someday, I would be in love with you. I did not know that the day would come so soon.

Tomorrow belongs

questions about the future

I've been in enough movies to know that when you're on the set and you start shooting, you're looking at playback and you get a sense of what it's going to be like.

Why can't Spider-sense warn you when you're about to get dumped?

Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you.

In Australien ist man der amerikanischen Zeit um siebzehn Stunden voraus. Man fliegt also buchstäblich in den nächsten Tag hinein. Während des Fluges erinnerte ich mich daran, daß wir sicher sein konnten, daß es die Welt am nächsten Tag noch geben und alles in Ordnung sein würde! Auf dem Kontinent, der vor uns lag, war es schon »morgen«.

In Australien ist man der amerikanischen Zeit um siebzehn Stunden voraus. Man fliegt also buchsnächstäblich in den nächsten Tag hinein. Während des Fluges erinnerte ich mich daran, daß wir sicher sein konnten, daß es die Welt am nächsten Tag noch geben und alles in Ordnung sein würde! Auf dem Kontinent, der vor uns lag, war es schon >morgen<.

It's not the actual crime that makes me want to leave, it's the possibility that it can happen any time, any second now, even in the next minute. That it might never happen at all, but I'll think it will happen any second now for the next ten years.

People with a plan see and wait for the right time.

you see and wait

the wait is just as bad because you can't do anything else in Jamaica but wait for something to happen to you.

The problem with a book is that you never know what it's planning to do to you until you're too far into it. I really need to take a shower.

No more sigh of sadness, only breathless expectation at what God's going to do next.

I like the feeling that anything, anything, could happen.

On a bright winter morning in 1966, seizing another cigarette from the pack on her metal desk and igniting it with a quick snap of her lighter, she mused, "Of course, somebody's gonna get George sooner or later. I've accepted that. He's gonna get it. My only consolation is, when it happens, he'll be doing the only thing he's ever cared about doing anyway.

The most thankless decision I make is the one that prevents something bad from happening, because I can never prove that I prevented something even worse.

Luther padded toward the door and his tail wagged slightly before it stilled. "For real. We can smell things before they happen. And if you don't go after her, I smell failure in your future.

I wait every year for summer, and it is usually good, but it is never as good as that summer I am always waiting for.

Our hearts are light and gay because now its happening, we're starting, we're travelling again.

So that was what had happened before the survey. Now we're here, ready for the next major disaster. (Spoiler alert.)

It looked like a clip from an action series, right before something drastic happened. Then something drastic happened.