Quotes About Anticipation

he might never enter this house again. Coming

lo mucho que anhelaba la llegada de aquel día. «No —pensó—; no permitiré que ocurra.»

Okay, stand outa the way. Sometimes when I go to exertin' myself I use up all the air nearby and grown men faint from suffocation. Stand back. There's liable to be crackin' cement and flying steel. Get the women and kids someplace safe. Stand back. . . .

Does one ever play Coltrane for the uninitiated without subconsciously hoping for the worst?

I will be a sonofabitch if he ain't in here at eleven-thirty at night, fartin' around in the dark with a pair of scissors and a paper sack.

Whoever comes in the door is usually disappointing, but there is always a chance otherwise. And when a key hits the lock, all the heads come up like there's strings on them.

The best thing about the future is that it happens one day at a time.

By the bounteous bottom of sweet Vashtilulu the Buxom! I'm looking forward to this, Our Kandar!

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.

He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.

Black power got to moving so fast that we miscalculated the fallout. I certainly have to take some of the responsibility of that; but there was no way we anticipated the response.

Adora Belle fought back, and to make sure fought back even before she was attacked.

An expectation is a thought.It has no power or influence.

Don't anticipate for a promise, let it be an unexpected favour, this will increase your power of independence.

Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick.

Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.

Dentro de poco ya no los veremos. Y dentro de otro poco, los volveremos a ver».16

She watched as a beer truck lumbered by with a clink of quivering warm, wet promises.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Wars have an unpleasant habit of evolving in ways that none of the participants anticipated. When, in the summer of 1914, Europe resounded with cries of "A Berlin!" or "Nach Paris!", no one imagined the Somme, or Verdun, or the starvation blockade of Germany that killed 750,000 civilians.

But when they seldom come, they wished for come.