Quotes About Anticipation

For, with a ship's gear, as well as a sailor's wardrobe, fine weather must be improved to get ready for the bad to come.

It's been my experience that worse-case scenarios are very rare indeed. Rare to the extend that you can almost count on them not happening.

All my worries had been for nothing. That's usually how it is with worrying. More often than not, we get ourselves all in a sweat over something that might happen, then everything turns out just fine.

Oh there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.

If you're holding a sapling in your hand when the Messiah arrives, first plant the sapling and then go out and greet the Messiah.

The morning was glorious, one of those crystalline, dry, blue, fall days when the temperature hovers right at anticipation.

The light switch teases her from across the foyer.

After two decades with his shoulders up near his ears, bracing for this hammer fall, his long flinch is over at last.

She goes on staring at the city, waiting for the city to stare back.

I presume, everyone feels who has done something that he knows will have very far-reaching consequences which he cannot foresee.

If you realize that there is a further journey, you might do the warm-up act quite differently, which would better prepare you for what follows.

I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.

He clearly regarded finding the glove compartment locked now as a disappointing development. Like arriving someplace for dinner, assuming you'd be welcome, and finding your place setting in the cupboard.

She looked like a woman who had spent her whole life waiting in line.

No, you wish. You have to be careful of wishing. It can hurt. It's better to wait until you know. Waiting for your father to turn up won't make him do it.

Ashley and Parker and Etienne, all of them hurrying in Roo's direction, though it was Parker who reached her first. "So what'd you do?" he teased gently. "Take bets I wouldn't make it back?

He jumped from the bed, but paused when he got to the sunporch. As Miranda saw him turn to look back at her, her whole body felt warm. "What is it?" she asked him, embarrassed now. But Etienne didn't look embarrassed at all. "It's good, cher. " He winked. "And next time, it'll be even better.

And I'm the only one who gets to dress up! And I can't wait to wear it! It's like cotton candy!" Roo arched an eyebrow. "Sticky?" "No! All pink and fluffy and…sweet. I love the way I feel in it." "I agree," Parker said hoarsely. "I love the way you feel in it, too. And I love the way you feel out of it even better." Roo stared at him. "Wow. You should write greeting cards.

Well, as long as we're all here," Miranda began, while Parker let out a prolonged groan. "Uh-oh. I sense drama." "Impossible," Roo said offhandedly. "You have no sense.

Richie Tankersley Cusick

Sara would listen for his plane in the afternoons. It did not make sense, but she could hear it even before the dogs could.

But I've always been terrified of the future. Even back then, I couldn't stop thinking about what everyone else ignored so skillfully. We're all going to die. And bad things are waiting around every corner. But in the end...all of that anxiety...all that worrying about the future...it didn't change anything.

Many of the best traps are simple. You just have to think about it, and hope your victim doesn't.

You're probably thinking: Wait, you just charged in without a plan? But Annabeth and I had been fighting together for years. We knew each other's abilities. We could anticipate each other's moves. I might have felt awkward and nervous about being her boyfriend, but fighting with her? That came naturally. Hmm…that sounded wrong. Oh, well.