Quotes About Anticipation

Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

To those who will see, the world waits.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.

It's a lot better to hope than not to.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

A daydreamer is prepared for most things.

Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.

The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.

No place is ever as bad as they tell you it's going to be.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

I know when things are going to get me a little nervous, because nervous to me feels good.

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.

When you are pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen, brush the honey off your nose and spruce yourself up as best you can, so as to look Ready for Anything.

In a moment, we hope to see the pole vault over the satellite.

The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.

At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.

I found the pearl of the Orient slightly less exciting than a rainy Sunday evening in Rochester.

There is nothing more satisfying than having plans.

I'm just always looking forwards. I spend very little time, looking backwards.

I am so ready to be a mommy. I can't wait. I notice every little baby dress, every little baby toy, every little baby thing.

Let's face it, all the good stuff happens after midnight.