Before you speak… I have already heard. Before you see… I had seen a million times. Before you reach… I came and departed, so is the way and life of a versatile soul.

I haven’t sold my soul to conform to what anyone else wants, … There is a nervousness and anticipation, but mainly I’m really proud of it.

Time to Appreciate

Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

He took the necklace out of the box and carefully fastened it around her neck. Just like he’d imagined himself doing when he bought it. That might even be why he bought it – so...

No harm ever came from a but of dramatic anticipation,” said the Doctor. “There is an art to the building of suspense. A prince from Denmark told me that.

Ultimately, my hope is to amaze myself. The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it’s the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

Sometimes what we lack is the thrill of anticipation or the delay of gratification. We enjoy things far more when we’ve really desired them but had to wait for them. The real value is found...

When you see someone on top, look away and don’t try to bring him down, because he may someday help you reach the top.

It was kind of in anticipation of. We didn’t know what he might be proposing. Given that not only he, but the Legislature in the past, has felt the urge to subject the Education Fund...

This is the worst part of the year, … The anticipation, the monotony of working out, going against the same guys over and over. You don’t really get to play football. You get anxious for...

Ironically, just when she needed to get as much sleep as possible to prepare her for the next few days, her excited anticipation kept her awake long into the night.

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

Obviously there’s a little anticipation and that leads to a little excitement. I anticipate our guys are going to be very focused.

I wish to go down under the waters—the cool, crystalline waters that I knew, where allthat is, here, existing, isis only to be lost within the susurrationsand the rumours of water and the evening starwe...

I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness, nor feel the weight of any misery, before it actually arrives.

He builds whole world of imagery and passion, any one of which would have served another writer for a whole book, only to pull each of them to pieces and pour scorn on it.

Everybody’s full of anticipation seeing this thing out in the bay, … They want to see it launch, and they want to see it come here.

The fact that we’ve been there means our kids will be able to focus. Sometimes the anticipation of the situation can hurt you.

The days passed in a dream. I pictured our reunion again and again, played it out in my mind over and over until I’d almost worn a groove in my thoughts, so deep that it...

Thrills are much more about anticipation than action. An unfired bullet is more dangerous than one that has already met its target.

I lick each envelope I mail, so I can taste the closure and anticipation of travel. If they tasted like ice cream, they’d match the love letters inside.

There is a lot I could have anticipated but I live in present & there is no anticipation to it, I wish I had a time machine

You ask how it is possible to be your own father and son. You should seek answers, although it is better to anticipate some, to be the light and dream.

It’s getting pretty intense. Every day has been ticking by. I just want to get there. The anticipation is killing me.

But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as fact; and anyone who has studied the history of science knows...

And I will never again underestimate the power of anticipation. There is no better boost in the present than an invitation into the future.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

US yields have continued to rise in anticipation of tightening beyond normalization, and we should also prepare for a paradigm shift in Japan as well.

I think it was likely to falter because of the amount of people who bought in anticipation of the approval.

…anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation.

It’s as if I’ve stepped off the edge of a cliff, and even though my heart’s in my mouth and my stomach is in knots, I’m the most excited I’ve ever been in my life....

The trick here is, while the actual pleasure begins to recede and blur, we simultaneously bring the imagined pleasure more fully into focus. And when we do, even the memory of the pleasure becomes more...

I love clean sheets. It’s the simultaneous reminiscence of how they got dirtied to begin with, and hopeful anticipation of what stories they will live to tell next time you are standing fatefully in front...

There’s been a lot of anticipation of good earnings numbers, but I think the market may have gotten ahead of itself.

When I began writing stories in exercise books I tried to put off all the things I really wanted to write about till at least the second page – I thought it would be like...

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

Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

He ran his finger along my jawline and down my neck. “The wait will be fun, but it’s not going to be easy.

When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud....

When you anticipate adversity, you can then plan for adversity. You may never gain control of it, but you can keep it from controlling you.

And so, wish becomes pang; the crave, an ache; pleasure, pain. Losing all its pleasure, anticipation cuts the opposite direction and becomes merely a constant, painful reminder of what they’ve lost, forever.

Like a rollercoaster, my mind had climbed its way to the top—only to witness how far there was to fall. And like a coaster, the second the fear hit, my stomach plummeted with the drop.

It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about...

We do not enjoy a story fully at first reading. Not till curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savor the real beauties.

We’ll continue to see some movement in response to anticipation of future Fed rate hikes.

When Well Mara stood to speak at a league meeting, the room would become silent with anticipation because all of us knew we were going to hear profound insights born of eight decades of league...

Anticipation is sometimes more exciting than actual events.