Quotes About Anticipation

Catastrophizing is my general approach to all social events: how, when, and why it will implode are the first things I think about

I només tu ets pròxima i et sento, immòbil i expectant, just al darrera de tantes portes que cap pany no tanca.

Doubt lurks in the bushes, waiting for you to come back from your honeymoon.

Each day I wondered what would happen next. What happens when you stop wanting, when you are happy.

Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?

Parrying a blow before it strikes, Giving a commission to one who is skillful.

Don't brood on what has not yet come, nor rejoice at what has not yet happened. The patient man prolongs friendship; he who destroys a case will not be trusted.

The thing to do,' I said as we gained the lane that leads to Beech Green and Fairacre, 'is to get absolutely everything in the summer and lock it in a cupboard. Then order every scrap of food from a shop the week before Christmas and sit back and enjoy watching everyone else go mad. I've been meaning to do it for years.

Every ending is a new beginning. Your next beginning will be like a child on Santa's lap for the first time.

reaction whenever Jack arrived in

The ending to this scene, I know it. Sirix will fail to return and Serena will still continue to wait. Even though this is repeated multiple times, Sirix will still fail to return. Even though this is repeated multiple times, Serena will still have to wait. I know....History won't change.

The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life

La emoción dominante es la de un optimismo abrumador. El país espera todo de él aunque la economía no traiga buenas noticias;

Quien identifique las barreras que protegen a los poderosos y averigüe si están elevándose o debilitándose, tendrá valiosas pistas para anticipar hacia dónde se moverá el poder.

ARNOLPHE. WAS SHE sad after I went away? Georgette. Sad? No. Arnolphe. No? Georgette. Yes, yes. Arnolphe. Why, then? Georgette. May I die on the spot, but she expected to see you return every minute; and we never heard a horse, an ass, or a mule pass by without her thinking it was you.

Especially when she thought it was chicken.

We'd been fucking each other for months without touching. And the last few days had this thing between us strung so tightly it was amazing we could move. He was going to wreck me. Break me. And I'd never needed anything more.

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

Those who are waiting are waiting very actively. They know that what they are waiting for is growing from the ground on which they are standing. . . . That's the secret. The secret of waiting is the faith that the seed has been planted, that something has begun. Active waiting means to be present fully to the moment in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it. . . . Waiting, then, is not passive.

That often happens when you plan a story to tell someone, because while you are planning it you write all the dialogue yourself – theirs as well as yours – and then, of course, they don't know their part.

She didn't call. That was good. If she called, she'd have a chance to cancel.

A man on a date wonders if he'll get lucky. The woman knows.

the air had that midwinter crackle. You know that feeling, like the air might break? .

We didn't call it World War I. How could we imagine there'd be a second?