Best 276 quotes in «anticipation quotes» category

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Anticipation and Hope are born twins.

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

Anticipation forward points the view.

Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

Anxiety beclouds the future.

Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.

A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.

As we come to the Bible, we can come with the holy anticipation of actually meeting with God.

As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

Best not to anticipate too much ... it jiggles the possibilities.

Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here and now, this minute, this day, to the full, and the life is worth living.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. expect nothing - get nothing! but expect something - get something!!

Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.

Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

Contentment is the equilibrium between the enjoyment of life now and the anticipation of what is to come.

Desire makes everything blossom

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.

[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.

Disaster preparedness, whether it's in anticipation of potential weather-related incidents or terrorist incidents requires a skill set that in my mind someone has to be trained for,.

Fear manifested invites danger.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs.

Fear gone, there can be no hatred.

[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!

Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul.

Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.

Finally, after more than a year of unprecedented anticipation, the talking stops and the cricket begins.

For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.

Fishing seems to be divided, like sex, into three unequal parts: anticipation and recollection and, in between, actual performance.

He who matures early lives in anticipation.

Genuine fearlessness arises with the confidence that we will be able to gather the inner resources to deal with any situation that comes our way.

God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope or courage. Pear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.

Go forward with joyful confidence.

Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.

He's one of those Christmas Eve guys. There are people like that... every day in their lives is Christmas Eve.

He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.

Hope begins in the dark.

Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.

Hope is only the love of life.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.