Famous quotes about anticipation

You loved ferris wheels more than roller coasters because life should not be lived at full speed, but in anticipation and appreciation.
- Amy Harmon

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

Live with the anticipation that something incredible might happen at any time.
- Sharon Gannon

What gift do you think a good servant has that separates them from the others? Its the gift of anticipation.
- Helen Mirren

Anticipation is sometimes more exciting than actual events.
- Ana Monnar

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
- Norman Cousins

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.
- Billy Graham

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.
- Fred Rogers

Anticipation – It’s a ticklish thing really, quivering, exciting, waiting, until it dies, killed by its own self lost through virtue of being there.
- Dal Perry

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.
- Dirk Benedict

Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac.
- Oscar Wilde

There is nothing so wretched and foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness to expect evil before it arrives.
- Seneca

Conscience in most men is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
- Jeremy Taylor

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
- Francis H. Bradley

Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.
- Amelia Earhart

Some part of me can't wait to see what life's going to come up with next! Anticipation without the usual anxiety. And underneath it all is the feeling that we both belong here, just as we are, right now.
- Alexander Shulgin

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.
- Amy Grant

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.
- Elizabeth Gaskell

We usually get what we anticipate.
- Claude M. Bristol

Best not to anticipate too much … it jiggles the possibilities.
- Donald Barthelme

The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
- Carl Sagan

Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure.
- David Hume

Have a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing.