Quotes About Anticipation

If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wished for come.

Great with child, and longing… for stewed prunes.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft thereWhere most it promises.

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:Follow your spirit; and, upon this chargeCry "God for Harry! England and Saint George!"

Who lin'd himself with hope,Eating the air on promise of supply.

He hath indeed better bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how.

And in such indexes, although small pricksTo their subsequent volumes, there is seenThe baby figure of the giant massOf things to come.

The day shall not be up so soon as I, To try the fair adventure of tomorrow.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.

O! that a man might knowThe end of this day's business, ere it come.

Expect Saint Martin's summer, halcyon days.

Two lads that thought there was no more behindBut such a day tomorrow as today,And to be boy eternal.

I am giddy, expectation whirls me round.The imaginary relish is so sweetThat it enchants my sense.

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.

know that the people who live the longest and the richest lives are looking ahead and not behind.

History is seasonal, and winter is coming.

In our worship we find for the most part what we expect to find.

Ere we had reach'd the wish'd-for place, night fell:   We were too late at least by one dark hour

The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.

HAD no idea what was in store for me. To begin with, everything was too perfect

In many cultures that are primarily animistic but also recognize a supreme god, the mythologies usually refer to a time when the relationship between the high god and human beings was closer than it is today, so that the notion of the anticipation of a future development does not fit at all.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.