208 Quotes About Anticipation

When the Attorney-General ceased, a buzz arose in the court as if a cloud of great blue-flies were swarming about the prisoner, in anticipation of what he was soon to become.

Anticipation is sometimes more exciting than actual events.

Wanfried, 31 March 1945There certainly don't seem to be any food shortages in town. All day long, we see women parading beneath our windows bearing aloft enormous tarts to cook in the baker's oven. Easter cakes, no doubt. We wonder whether we might be given a little extra to eat tomorrow, as our hunger is intolerable.

The Jeep inched forward at a painfully slow rate, made all the more excruciating by the anticipation building in Artemis's chest. He could suppress it no longer. Could they at last be at the end of their quest? After six false alarms across three continents, could this wine-sodden healer be the gold at the end of the rainbow? Artemis almost chuckled. Gold at the end of the rainbow. He'd made a joke. Now there's something that didn't happen everyday.

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

With God, a mountain is only a road waiting to happen.

In waiting I learn to live with the anticipations of loss—

Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return.

Cursing will create a hole in a whole Heart.