Best 276 quotes in «anticipation quotes» category

While dissatisfaction implies either rejection or frustrated pursuit of satisfaction, unsatisfaction is something more like acceptance combined with anticipation. It is acknowledgement of desire without the demand that it be satisfied--a kind of openness that doesn't ask for closure. It is desire that can live with deferral, an embrace of the God-shaped vacuum in us and a commitment to stop trying to make it full, a healthy hunger that is content to wait for the feast.

With each passing moment, I’d get that feeling you sometimes have the moment you’re about to flip the final page of a really good book, when your anticipation for what happens next overwhelms you, but you also know that turning the page means you're closer to an end.

Would that we could choose the last image we see before death closes our eyes forever to this world.

Against ill chances men are ever merry, But heaviness foreruns the good event.

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.

All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.

A good restaurant just makes me giddy. I can go all day with anticipation just knowing where I'm going to eat. Sometimes it's well planned, sometimes it's spontaneous. Either way works.

Anticipation and Hope are born twins.

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

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.

Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

Anxiety beclouds the future.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.

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.

Desire makes everything blossom

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,.

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

[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.

Fear gone, there can be no hatred.

Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul.

Fear manifested invites danger.

Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.

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.

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

Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Go forward with joyful confidence.

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.

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

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.