Quotes About Anticipation

How can we live without the unknown before us?

He knows when she passes, a grief will rip through him unlike anything he has ever known. Preparing for it doesn't help. He just knows it will come. It is like realizing you are sailing a boat across an ocean and soon you will find the other shore—it will be just you and acres of dry, blinding white sand. There may be trees on that island, and sun, and food, but none of it will feel or taste right, because you will stand there and realize: I am alone.

I recall an epic peregrination of some phantasmagorical nature that lay ahead

Wolfe: 'Our next step is obvious, but it must wait...' Archie: It was nice to know the next step was obvious, but it would have been even nicer to know what it was.

That of course is the advantage of being a pessimist; a pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

Something good is just about to happen.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions." Albert Einstein (1879–1955)

Actually, no, I couldn't wait.

Estoy convencido de que nunca nos sucede nada que no hayamos previsto, nada para lo que no estemos preparados. Nos han tocado malos tiempos, como a todos los hombres, y hay que aprender a vivir sin ilusiones

desde las 3:00 p.m. hasta las 3:33. Y entonces yo, con el corazón quieto y los pulmones cerrados, sometido por las preguntas sin respuesta de la espera, voy paso por paso hasta la casa número tres.

You know, the first two, I probably should've seen coming. The leprechaun costume? Not so much.

I've always thought of school as a rehearsal. Not the main event.

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?

Shake and shake the catsup bottle. None will come, and then a lot'll.

Alert expectancy. What an exciting way to look at things! Our faith in Christ gives us the opportunity to live in a state of alert expectancy; patiently waiting for what God will do next. People who choose this path will one day look back in amazement at what God did.

I wrote on the envelope that it was not to be opened until the following day but then gave it to a boy who I knew was far too nosy not to open it immediately.

I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Lincoln Road that sorrow is most difficult for the young because it, "takes them unawares." The old, he said, have learned to anticipate difficulty. Lincoln wrote that sorrow is most difficult for the young because it, "takes them unawares." The old, he said, have learned to anticipate difficulty.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this great big feast, slap bang in the middle of winter, is an essential thing to look forward to at the end of the year.

In all such instances of which I am aware, the Presidents do not think hard enough, carefully enough beforehand, about foreseeable, even likely consequences to their own effectiveness in office, looking down the line and around corners (xviii).