anticipation quotes

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

Nobody likes to have trouble. The moment we get a hint that it’s coming, a common response is, ‚Oh no! Not again!‘

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn’t anticipate.

When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn’t I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.

I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It’s going to happen when it’s supposed to happen. I’m not rushing it. I’m not trying to make it happen tomorrow.

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.

It’s hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

I’m really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I’ve always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn’t wait to be 16 and get a driver’s license.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.