Quotes About Anticipation

While listening to a piece of beautiful music: impressions that this movement which is beginning is already at its end, that it is going to have been, or sinking into the future that we hold as well as the past—though we cannot say exactly what it will be. Anticipated Retrospection—retrograde movement in futuro: it is descending toward me already made.

Two things are certain about freedom: that we are never determined and yet that we never change, that, retrospectively, we can always find in our past the anticipation of what we have become.

Truth is not an adequation but anticipation, repetition, and slippage of meaning. Truth allows itself to be reached only through a sort of distance. The thing thought is not the thing perceived. Knowledge is not perception, speech is not one gesture among all the other gestures. For speech is the vehicle of our movement toward truth, as the body is the vehicle of our being in the world.

What is a 'decision'? A kind of failure, like the cracking of a falling tree--decision is not ex nihilo, is not of the now, always anticipated, because we are everything, everything has accomplices in us. One does not decide to do but allow to happen.

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

A Russian, the poet David Samoilov, said later, "We were all expecting war. But we were not expecting that war.

1. "Do Your Worrying Before You Place Your Bet, Not After the Wheel Starts Turning

he played chess only in his mind, building up steam for the moment when he would meet the champion.

When will your wedding be?" "We haven't set a date yet." "What of your dress?" "I'm sure I shall wear one.

He wanted to bend her over the dining table and ravish her. Or the desk, or one of the twenty beds, or any piece of furniture, really. The sooner the better, too, since every last stitch of furniture would likely need to be sold.

Svemu treba i?i u susret, ništa ne treba ?ekati. Ako ?ovek nije ni glup ni kukavica nije ni bespomo?an

You can't run away forever but there's nothing wrong with getting a good head start.

Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.

That's it," Piper said. "That's the end." But I knew it wasn't. They'd left out a chapter. The one where the hero comes home to find me gone.

But the truth is that nothing distracted me from waiting. The.Time.Simply.Passed.

The hours passed as they did the rest of the year, until whatever it was we were waiting for commenced.

he knew the answers to questions you hadn't even got around to asking yet.

Well," said Ash, and she got out of her own bed and came to sit beside Jules. "I've always sort of felt that you prepare yourself over the course of your whole life for the big moments, you know? But when they happen, you sometimes feel totally unready for them, or even that they're not what you thought. And that's what makes them strange . The reality is really different from the fantasy.

I might have things to look forward to again, things I can't even imagine yet.

I've always sort of felt that you prepare yourself over the course of your whole life for the big moments, you know? But when they happen, you sometimes feel totally unready for them, or even that they're not what you thought. And that's what makes them strange. The reality is really different from the fantasy.

Siempre he tenido la sensación de que uno se pasa la vida como… preparándose para los grandes momentos, ¿sabes? Pero cuando llegan, a veces no te sientes nada preparado, o incluso resulta que no son como habías pensado. Y eso es lo que los hace extraños. La realidad es realmente distinta de la fantasía.

I wondered whether he might ever love me, and how I might rush that love into existence.

I've always sort of felt that you prepare yourself over the course of your whole life for the big moments, you know? But when they happen, you sometimes feel totally unready for them, or even that they're not what you thought. And that's what makes them strange. The reality is really different from the fantasy." "That's

You spend a long time waiting for life to start—the past year or two filled with all these firsts, everything new and terrifying and significant—and then it does start and you realize it isn't what you'd expected, or asked for.