Quotes About Anticipation

In some animal part of my brain, I guess I thought looking her up might somehow summon her. So I never did. And she came anyway.

When she returned, there was Coach T. spinning

He shook his head, again with that smile that didn't show his teeth. It was the smile of a man who hadn't been surprised in a very long time but who felt like he was finally going to be surprised again and was enjoying it.

You spend a long time waiting for life to start-- her 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.

Ages fourteen to eighteen, a girl needs something to kill all that time, that endless itchy waiting, every hour, every day for something — anything — to begin.

I leaned my head back, and waited for the sunrise.

Actually, how I am a defensive pessimist. I always assume the worst, so if the reality is even a wee bit better than my disaster scenario, it's a cause for celebration.

I'M SCURRYING AROUND THE HOUSE, TRYING TO DECIDE WHAT I should pack (cloth diapers, knitted booties, cotton jumpers?) and what I should leave behind (cloth diapers, knitted booties, cotton jumpers?) when I'm stopped in my tracks by the lowing and braying of the animals in the barn. Someone's coming. Again.

In six weeks, I'd be packing up all my stuff and getting the hell out of Pineville. But until then, my life at The Mall would really, really suck.

This is my new hobby. I watch my life depart minute by minute. I anticipate the end of everything and anything—a conversation, a class, track practice, darkness—only to be left with more clock-watching to take its place. I'm continually waiting for something better that never comes. Maybe it would help if I knew what I wanted.

Every now and then I'd squint my eyes to visualize a time when I'd start feeling the craving myself: when I was thirty, it would be at thirty-two; at thirty-two, I'd be ready by thirty-six; and on it went.

They protect us from disaster by playing out the disaster ahead of time. They're the reason the plane doesn't crash and the bomb doesn't drop. They're the reason we will almost certainly not die in childbirth.

Appreciate water before you are thirsty! Appreciate all the good things before you need them!

Don't wait for anything; simply because what you are waiting for may never come!

He who observes the infinite horizons will see the dangers before others.

Man is never out of range of surprises!

No eyes can read the future, because it is a book not yet written!

Sun must set so that we can long for its rise!

The face of tomorrow can be seen only in tomorrow.

The nice thing about being away from home is the feeling of excitement when returning to it!

There is always a melancholic silence before entering every New Year!

Think about the answers of the questions that have not yet been asked! When they are asked, you will have the answers ready!

Tomorrow is an assumption; it is just a theory! We must wait for tomorrow to see whether tomorrow is real or not!

We can't always expect great things from great men; but we must always expect little things from little men!