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Quotes About Anticipation

We were so ready [with Valerian] that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film.
~ Luc Besson
I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Memories are nice, but dreams are better.
~ John Anthony Miller
It could be, it might be... It is, A home run!
~ Harry Caray
When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.
~ Danica McKellar
Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.
~ Hannah Arendt
London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.
~ Dorothy Parker
My mistress has come home; at last I've seen her. Now I'm ready to die.
~ Anton Chekhov
The nice thing about being away from home is the feeling of excitement when returning to it!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home.
~ Lionel Shriver
You never know what's going to happen with this crazy world of sports entertainment, so I would never rule out the fact that Rock wants to come home.
~ Roman Reigns
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
~ Ovid
The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last.
~ Gene Wilder
It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.
~ Dean Koontz
What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
~ Queen Elizabeth II
Nothing remains but to hope the end will come to extinguish the unrelenting pain of waiting for it.
~ Pier Paolo Pasolini
Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
~ Thucydides
There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.
~ Haruki Murakami
Advent increases our hope, a hope which does not disappoint. The Lord never lets us down.
~ Pope Francis
Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
~ Vita Sackville-West
We hope vaguely but dread precisely.
~ Paul Valery
The word advent means "expectation." What advent can do for us is create a sense of hope.
~ Louie Giglio