Quotes About Anticipation

I never really tell anyone what I'm writing beforehand because I usually don't know what it will be.

What's important is you mustn't focus too early and try to play the game before it actually begins.

I mean, at the beginning of a season you never know how things are going to turn out. You're always going in positive, believing in the work that's been done.

Sometimes I think it was like he was storing up company for the times when he knew nobody would be around

He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was like he was storing up company for the times he knew nobody would be around

Not reassuring when weathermen say 'Today will be terrible but don't worry it won't be as terrible as tomorrow or Friday.

My poverty was always a source of disappointment to her. If only she could have waited a few years

Sometimes I get so excited thinking about my morning coffee," Mr. Söderblad said, "I can't fall asleep at night.

Silence, however, is a useful statement only if someone, somewhere, expects your voice to be loud.

There were a thousand things she wanted from life, and since few were available at home [...], she had forcibly channeled all her wanting into the numbered days, the mayfly lifetime, that the luxury cruise would last. For months the cruise had been her mind's safe parking space, the future that made her present bearable [...].

Enid had chosen to believe the promise of his looks. Life then became a matter of waiting for his personality to change.

All Thinking is Wishful.

Each might have been a week except for night's failure to come and close the deal. When

because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't stop himself from hoping it might be that person, even though he knew he shouldn't hope.

I regret how much I believed in the future.

The moment before he started was my favorite moment.

Maybe we're just missing things we've lost, or hoping for what we want to come.

Tomorrow was over the horizon and it would take an entire day to reach

Maybe we're just missing things we've lost, or hoping for what we want to come.

La tensión de algo que se veía venir, algo irracional porque venía untado de violencia, imbécil porque tenía su origen en la política, cruel porque en ello había metido la mano la religión.

i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive.

Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details.

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

I had no wish to take any determined route on that stroll; I attempted, rather, a maximum latitude of probabilities in order not to wear out expectation with an obligatory anticipation of a single one of them. I was able, within the imperfect limits of possibility, to walk, as they say, at random. I accepted, without any conscious prejudice but that of avoiding the wider avenues and streets, the most obscure invitations of chance.