Quotes About Anticipation

He was at heart a dilettante, and thinking over a pleasure to come often gave him a subtler satisfaction than its realisation.

I still feel like a young girl, as though everything is about to happen.

I'm not sure what readers want.

Waiting for something to happen in the deathly, unhappy silence.

suddenly the window flew open, swung back and forth on its hinges, as if something was about to come in, and she waited in dread for what that something might be.

When they answered the bell on that wild winter night. There was no one expected - and no one in sight.

I thought it was going to be different; It turned out to be(,) just the same.

Don't you know there's another bubble as well? An expectations bubble. Bigger houses, private planes, yachts... stupid salaries and bonuses. People come to desire these things and expect them. But the expectations bubble will burst as well, as all bubbles do.

Just before the top of the hill she stopped, breathed deeply, and tried to muster her scattered sense of calm, like a bride checking her veil in the last mirror before the aisle.

Your future includes manna. It will come. There is no sense devising future scenarios now because God will do more than you anticipate.

Some hopeless people who anticipate only death cite Scripture that says "I desire to depart and be with Christ" (Phil. 1:23). But Christ is not what hopeless people really want. The God-talk is misleading. The goal of hopelessness is to end the suffering, and if God happens to be there when it happens, fine. But God's presence is not essential.

You can't tell till you bet.

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

love to travel, But hate to arrive

Me carga que la gente espere cosas de mí. Me enreda, me complica, me obliga a responder.

Y si nos vamos anticipando de sonrisa en sonrisa hasta la última esperanza?

Hay, en la espera, un rumor a lila rompiéndose

No le pida nunca nada a la vida. Espere... y algún día la vida le dará una sorpresa maravillosa.

Mi madre lo decía: hay un reloj de esperar y otro de despedirse; el de esperar siempre atrasa.

If you wait long enough, something will happen - there has never been a time when nothing happened.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time.

Ora sapete come è l'aspettativa: immaginosa, credula, sicura.