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

  Patricia Highsmith

  Pleasant

  Patricia Highsmith (1999). “Talented Mr. Ripley ; Ripley under ground ; Ripley's game”, Random House, Inc.

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• Grace (talking about Sam): At the sight of him, my stomach slid down to my feet, a weird combination of relief, nerves, and anticipation all in one, a feeling that never seemed to go away.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Sight, Talking, Feet

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.

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• Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

  Angela Carter

  Pleasure, Greater

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• Make the most of every moment. Get excited about every little thing. Why not? Why not have your wonderful moment of excited anticipation? Why not be happy NOW? This is my greatest challenge, but something I'm pouring my heart into: learning how to enjoy what I have, right here, right now. Every moment is precious and although sometimes I struggle to see it, I see it more and more every day.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Struggle, Heart, Challenges

  Bethenny Frankel (2011). “A Place of Yes: 10 Rules for Getting Everything You Want Out of Life”, p.317, Simon and Schuster

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• It was an image Melody would never forget. Or was it the emotions the image conjured - hope, excitement, and fear of the unknown, all three tightly braided together, creating a fourth emotion that was impossible to define. She was getting a second chance at happiness and it tickled like swallowing fifty fuzzy caterpillars.

  Lisi Harrison

  Life, Second Chance, Creating

  Lisi Harrison (2010). “Monster High”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

  Hilary Mantel

  Knowledge, People, Desire

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• (Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action

  John Irving

  Baseball, Games, Waiting

  John Irving (2012). “A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• The panther prowled around me in a loose, wide circle. Its mouth turned down, almost in a pout, and it seemed disappointed that I wasn't going to run away. Or scream, at the very least. Its tail, which was at least three feet long, twitched back and forth in what seemed to be annoyance. Or maybe anticipation. I didn't know. I'd always been more of a dog person. I cleared my throat, and the panther stopped and flicked up one of its rounded ears. Listening. "Um, nice kitty?

  Jennifer Estep

  Running, Dog, Nice

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Mythos Academy Bundle: First Frost, Touch of Frost, Kiss of Frost & Dark Frost”, p.160, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Where do you think you’re going?” Dr. Nokes demanded…. “What do you have for directions?” And Dad… said, “I have the substance of things hoped for. I have the anticipation of things unseen

  Leif Enger

  Dad, Thinking, Unseen

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• In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being more and more active to generate results. In the East-especially in India-I find that people are more content to just be, to just sit around under a banyan tree for half a day chatting to each other. We Westerners would probably call that wasting time. But there is value to it. Being with someone, listening without a clock and without anticipation of results, teaches us about love. The success of love is in the loving-it is not in the result of loving.

  Mother Teresa

  Time, Love Is, People

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

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• 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.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Moving, Giving, Force

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

  Peter Benchley

  Suicide, Suicidal, Hopeful

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• You never know what you can do until you have to do it.

  Betty Ford

  Business, Sad Truth, Knows

  Betty Ford, Chris Chase (1978). “The times of my life”, Ballantine Books

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

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Holy, Meetings

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• Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no concept of a doer of that action.

  Brad Warner

  Real, Rewards, Doers

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• I am determined to enjoy each day to the fullest. I don't want to wish away Christmas. I want to enjoy these last moments of Advent and look forward to Jesus's birth with anticipation.

  Shelley Shepard Gray

  Jesus, Wish, Looks

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• After she's gone, another brief lull sets in. This one is probably the last. But what good is a lull? It's only a breathing spell in which to get more frightened. Because anticipatory fear is always twice as strong as present fear. Anticipatory fear has both fears in it at once - the anticipatory one and the one that comes simultaneously with the dread happening itself. Present fear only has the one, because by that time anticipation is over.

  Cornell Woolrich

  Strong, Fear, Breathing

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• We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning of that first flight? The anticipation of Jonas Salk as he analyzed the data that demonstrated a way to prevent polio?

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Morning, Brother, Journey

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• Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

  Dario Argento

  Definitions, Emotion, Horror

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Already I am smiling in anticipation of the good to come

  Og Mandino

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story”, p.91, Bantam

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• The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Spring, Winter, Long Ago

  "The Twelve Seasons". Book by Joseph Wood Krutch, p. 169, 1949.

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• I have no statistics to prove it, but I'm sure the American workplace will be adversely affected on Monday, the day after XXIV. The game will be the focus of conversation, and distractions happy and sad will be the order of the day, not to mention millions of hangovers. I wouldn't buy a toaster or a parachute manufactured the day after Super Bowl XXIV. You cannot engender such torrid anticipation for an event so great that it requires Roman numerals as a suffix, then expect there to be no social repercussions at its end.

  Robert Klein

  Monday, Hangover, Order

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• Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Years, Has Beens

  "Arthur Clarke The Visionary In the Real '01" by Felicity Barringer, www.nytimes.com. January 6, 2001.

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• Architecture was, or is, a kind of hobby, an inclination I have to fiddling around and building things. Putting up shelves or cupboards, or making tools, or designing houses ... it always has a functional or social motivation. If social changes are in the air, I am gripped immediately by the desire to build, and I think that I accelerate or anticipate changes in my life by doing so, at least in draft. In the case of my house, that was anticipation: in other words, first build, then change one's life.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Motivation, Thinking

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest.

  Sean Durkin

  Firsts, Horror, Hours

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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