Quotes About Anticipation

Imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

If you wait, you can have what you want,

Nothing exists but my breath. I know this feeling. Usually it comes when something unexpected and momentously awful is about to happen, which doesn't make sense now. I'm just going home.

There is deep darkness before the dawn of light.

No serious book lover will ever die having read every book he has managed to collect. This is not a sign of dilatoriness but of eagerness, anticipation.

You start thinking about Yeats, him saying that life was a long preparation for something that never happens. You just got to wait it out.

no forces can't be too great if the evil is to be forestall.

We're not thinking what if,' he said. 'We're thinkin' when.

Ida Belle grabbed the purse, her arms dropping a bit, then set it on the coffee table. I leaned over as she pulled out a small retail store. Nine-

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.

Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Why not seize pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Next week I shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend.

I glide a finger along the raised golden edge of the title. I fan the pages and inhale the scent of fresh ink. I sigh in contentment when I think about how good it will be to lose myself in these pages. I'm so lost in thought,

Desire is the moment before the race is run.

The most likely moment for something incredible to happen to me was the moment I was most certain nothing ever would.

Keep your eyes peeled. You might just see Christmas yet

Twenty-five years had whisked by with its challenges and triumphs. Ida now had a medical school, a nursing school, and a large hospital, but still there was much more to be done. Ida found herself wondering what her next challenge would be.

Well … when do you want to get married?" "Tomorrow." She burst out laughing again. "How about next spring?" "How about later this week?" "A Christmas wedding, then." "Thanksgiving." "But that's only two weeks away!" "Two damn long weeks, if you ask me.

Nothing's going to happen between us until you're ready for it to happen." She stared at him, stil clutching her stick in a death grip, then finally nodded and silently walked to her car. She let Toby in the backseat, then opened the passenger door and slid the tip of her stick on the floor to lean it against the console. "Jess," Ian said quietly. She turned, still not saying anything. "Just so long as you know that it is going to happen.

His heart was dancing far ahead of his feet.

I skipped to the door of my building. Is there anything more glorious than new crushes on boys?

I had asked Hunter once, when he was in a rare calm mood, 'Do you know when you're about to change? Are you aware of it?' Hunter said, 'Sandy, do you know what it's like? I'm just standing here, and I have a sense that something is about to happen. And then I start to turn my head, and it's here. The monster's here.

A good way to enjoy the experiences of summer early is to get a winter sunburn.