Anticipation famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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.
-- A. R. Ammons -
We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there.
-- Al Gore -
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
You loved ferris wheels more than roller coasters because life shouldn’t be lived at full speed, but in anticipation and appreciation.
-- Amy Harmon -
I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.
-- Anais Nin -
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.
-- Andrew Solomon -
Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.
-- Andrew Stanton -
The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting
-- Andy Warhol -
It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.
-- Baruch Spinoza -
...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.
-- Baruch Spinoza -
We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life.
-- Baruch Spinoza -
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
-- Bertolt Brecht -
I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.
-- Billy Graham -
The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it
-- Carl Sagan -
Anticipation is making me late, it's keeping me waiting.
-- Carly Simon -
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
-- Charles Lamb -
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
You have to have hope. Otherwise, I don't think you could handle it. Of course, you have to have both luck and pluck to make it.
-- Clyde Tombaugh -
For all that has been, Thanks. To all that shall be, Yes.
-- Dag Hammarskjold -
Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.
-- Dario Argento -
I think that when Evel Knievel crashed over the fountain at Caesars, it kind of gave you a credibility and then anticipation for everything he did.
-- David Blaine -
The morning’s recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come.
-- David Markson -
There's no question that positive thinking has a place in business. [...just as it has in the the rest of a happy, successful person's life.]
-- David Mason -
When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe.
-- Dodie Smith -
Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
-- Don Meyer -
Best not to anticipate too much ... it jiggles the possibilities.
-- Donald Barthelme -
The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.
-- Edward Gibbon -
Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.
-- Elizabeth Gaskell -
A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!
-- Elizabeth Wurtzel -
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.
-- Etty Hillesum -
When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.
-- Felicity Kendal -
...be more guided by hope than fear.
-- Francesco Guicciardini -
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it...
-- Francis Quarles -
How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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.
-- Gayle King -
Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs.
-- George Crabbe -
Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.
-- Georges Bernanos -
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton -
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
-- Gustave Flaubert -
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
-- Hannah Arendt -
As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
-- Harper Lee -
Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.
-- Harriet Martineau -
If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.
-- Henry Rollins -
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
-- Honore de Balzac -
To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.
-- Ilka Chase -
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet... [at least for your own situation. Blind optimism is just as foolish. The solution is a rigorously balanced, rational outlook.]
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer -
When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
-- J. P. Morgan -
Night breeds its own sort of anticipation.
-- Jacqueline Carey -
We all know the disappointments that come when we base anticipation on what we and other humans can deliver. God will never have a problem delivering!
-- James MacDonald -
So not only do we need to deal with threats as they emerge, we have to be thinking in anticipation of future threats, and the things we do have to be things that enable the system to continue to work.
-- Janet Napolitano -
Anticipation and Hope are born twins.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
-- Jeremy Taylor -
In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor as badly as one feared.
-- Jerome Bruner -
The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy.
-- Jerry Uelsmann -
The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't have it well designed!
-- Jim Rohn -
Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.
-- Joanne Harris -
We are facing incredible challenges in the economy of the U.S. and the economy of the globe, but the stock market, we never know whether it's over-discounted or under-discounted or got exactly right its anticipation.
-- John C. Bogle -
The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.
-- John Green -
The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking ...
-- John Irving -
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.
-- John Ruskin -
Finally, after more than a year of unprecedented anticipation, the talking stops and the cricket begins.
-- Jonathan Agnew -
We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.
-- Joseph Addison -
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
-- Joseph Joubert -
Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.
-- Josh Peck -
Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown.
-- Lou Boudreau -
Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.
-- Maria Edgeworth -
Nothing is ever so good or so bad in reality as it is in the anticipation.
-- Marie Bashkirtseff -
Studies of older Americans find that one of the best predictors of happiness is whether a person considers his or her life to have a purpose. Without a clearly defined purpose, seven in ten individuals feel unsettled about their lives; with a purpose, almost seven in ten feel satisfied!
-- Mark Lepper -
I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I've played so many matches in my life.
-- Martina Hingis -
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.
-- Matthieu Ricard -
My nature is to get instant gratification. On stage, I can feel everybody's anticipation. I know what they want, I know what I'm going to give them, I know when I'm going to give it to them, I know when they want it.
-- Mike Tyson -
I love you now for what we've already shared, and I love you now in anticipation of all that's to come.
-- Nicholas Sparks -
Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.
-- Nicolas Chamfort -
In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.
-- Oren Peli -
How many would die did not hope sustain them...
-- Owen Feltham -
Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.
-- Patricia Highsmith -
Defeatism about the past is a grievous error; defeatism about the future is a crime!
-- Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker -
Contentment is the equilibrium between the enjoyment of life now and the anticipation of what is to come.
-- Priscilla Shirer -
Let anxious anticipation evolve into effective preparation
-- Quentin Smith -
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
-- Quintilian -
Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.
-- Rex Brandt -
Faith is the courage to face reality with hope.
-- Robert H. Schuller -
Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
-- Robin Hobb -
Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen.
-- Russell Green -
Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
-- Sam Snead
