Quotes About Anticipation

Qué triste es que el futuro no te dé esperanza, tan sólo miedo.

Sólo debemos pensar seriamente en el futuro cuando nos plantamos demasiado tiempo en el mismo lugar

Me despierto poco antes de que amanezca. Es la mejor hora del día. Las cosas se ven de color de rosa y todos tenemos derecho a esperar que nuestros sueños se convertirán por fin en realidad.

Staying safe is mostly a game of offense not defense. Prevention vs. Reaction!

Pretty agreeable of me, yes? The ancient Greeks gave a name to this kind of anticipatory concession, agreeing in advance to what the other person is likely to say: prolepsis, meaning

Probably a good idea, let me know how it ends" "I already know how it ends" "You read the ending first?" "I always read the ending before I commit to the whole book." "If you know how it ends, why read the book?" "I don't read for the ending. I read for the story".

It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.

The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

Il y a dans tout début une surprise et une attente qui seront peut-être déçues mais qui donnent au temps qui passe sa couleur et sa vigueur.

C'est pour ça que je ne le vis pas venir et c'est pour ça que je ne distinguai pas le moment juste où sa musique commença ; mais, tout d'un coup, elle sauta hors de la pluie et je sus qu'il était là.

You weren't being punished. You were waiting for me.

And I saw that all my life I had known that this was going to happen, and that I'd been afraid for a long time, I'd been afraid for a long time. There's fear, of course, with everybody. But now it had grown, it had grown gigantic; it filled me and it filled the whole world.

Preparing to go to school was like getting ready for extended deep sea diving.

There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.

Everything comes to he who waits. I guess. At last, after at least 200 years of constant vigil, there was delivered to me a big, fat, lumpy letter. There are few things more thrilling in Life than lumpy letters. That rattle. Even to this day I feel a wild surge of exultation when I run my hands over an envelope that is thick, fat, and pregnant with mystery.

Once she'd gone, nobody spoke, except for his father who asked what was on next. Blake said it was Newhart.

It is true, I do expect bad things rather than good, and even when they are good I worry about when they will stop being good.

The awful thing about a vacation is that the moment it begins your happiness is already clouded by its approaching end.

It's nice to look forward to, isn't it—a life of work and play and little daily adventures side by side with somebody you love?

I ate breakfast in the kitchen by candle-light, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most glorious October colouring. The sun came up on the way, and the swamp maples and dogwood glowed crimson and orange and the stone walls and cornfields sparkled with hoar frost; the air was keen and clear and full of promise. I knew something was going to happen.

Will each of my daughters be delivered to me, one at a time, as from the briny deep?

So excited her wings were quivering.