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Quotes About Anticipation

I was determined to find you first, he said, before I go to Rose. And he added quickly, I want to kiss your shoes. Do you? said Scrap, smiling. Then I must go and put on my new ones. These aren't nearly good enough.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
those future marigolds, shadowy as they are, and whose seeds are still sleeping at the seedman´s, have shone through my winter days like golden lamps.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
I'll get the popcorn." I yelled up the stairs to let Bruce know I was coming. I also had the beer and my laptop.
~ Elizabeth Warren
Please come back soon. The window is always open.
~ Elizabeth Wein
I kept imagining the end, the despair I would suffer when it came, and it made any happiness I had in the present seem not merely ephemeral, but doomed. Because the happier I allowed myself to be now, the more miserable I would be later.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
and wait for daylight.
~ Alfred Lansing
Land in sight! Land in sight!
~ Alfred Lansing
But the dawn did come—at last.
~ Alfred Lansing
The worst is yet to come.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
She is coming, my own, my sweet;Were it ever so airy a tread,My heart would hear her and beat,Were it earth in an earthy bed;My dust would hear her and beat,Had I lain for a century dead;Would start and tremble under her feet,And blossom in purple and red.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
For I dipped into the future, as far as human eye could see, saw a vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.
~ Alfred Whitehead
Endurance is composed of four attributes: eagerness, fear, piety and anticipation (of death). So whoever is eager for Paradise will ignore temptations; whoever fears the fire of Hell will abstain from sins; whoever practises piety will easily bear the difficulties of life and whoever anticipates death will hasten towards good deeds.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
they were always, she was always, gloriously, just a little late, it made everything worth hurrying for)
~ Ali Smith
Los amigos de toda la vida, dijo él. A veces nos pasamos toda la vida esperándolos.
~ Ali Smith
teasing is arousal without the promise of release!
~ Ali Vali
the past is known, but the future can sometimes be troublesome!
~ Ali Vali
till we meet again, my heart awaits you. till we meet again, you will trouble my dreams
~ Alice Borchardt
Sound like a promise that can never happen.
~ Alice Childress
Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.
~ Alice James