Anticipation Quotes - Page 21

• There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.

  Thomas Harris

  Able, Emotion, Common

  Thomas Harris (1999). “Hannibal”

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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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• 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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• 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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• No purpose intervenes between I and You, no greed and no anticipation; and longing itself is changed as it plunges from the dream into appearance. Every means is an obstacle. Only where all means have disintegrated encounters occur.

  Martin Buber

  Dream, Mean, Greed

  Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.82, eBookIt.com

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• I know this much about racing in the rain. I know it is about balance. It is about anticipation and patience... [it is also] about the mind! It is about owning one's body... It is about believing that you are not you; you are everything. And everything is you.

  Garth Stein

  Rain, Believe, Racing

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• I'm a child in that respect: able to live, physically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but always in danger of crushing the waited-for event with the freight of my excessive hope.

  Zoë Heller

  Crush, Children, Events

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• Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

  Honore de Balzac

  Lying, Greatest Fear, Our Greatest Fear

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• It is a great while since I felt the grind of bone under my saw,' he added, smiling with anticipation.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Saws, Bones, Grind

  Patrick O'Brian (1990). “Master and Commander (Vol. Book 1)”, p.80, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.

  Barbara Mertz

  Mother, Pain, Doors

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• Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Reality, Magic, Details

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.89, New Directions Publishing

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• That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

  Maya Angelou

  Spring, Sea, Rocks

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• 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

  Insanity, Savages, Equal

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• The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.

  John Irving

  Thrill, Excitement, Equal

  John Irving (2012). “A Widow For One Year”, p.100, Random House

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• In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Children, Lying, Theatre

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.14, Penguin UK

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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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• It hit her like a sledgehammer, and it was then that she knew what to feel. A liquid trail of hate flooded her chest. Knowing that she would hate him long and well filled her with pleasant anticipation, like when you know you are going to fall in love with someone and you wait for the happy signs. Hating BoyBoy, she could get on with it, and have the safety, the thrill, the consistency of that hatred as long as she wanted or needed it to define and strengthen her or protect her from routine vulnerabilities.

  Toni Morrison

  Falling In Love, Hate, Knowing

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• Sometimes I forget how much I like riding the bike." Most chicks do," I said. "Roar of the engine and so on." Murphy's blue eyes glittered with annoyance and anticipation. "Pig. You really enjoy dropping all women together in the same demographic, don't you?" It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels.

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Pigs, Blue

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.152, Penguin

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• Waiting is not always a bad thing; it can bring its own joy -the thrill of anticipation.

  David Jeremiah

  Joy, Waiting, Thrill

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• Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity; to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.

  Jane Austen

  Disappointment, Names, Desire

  Jane Austen (2014). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.182, Lulu.com

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• With lacquerware there is an extra beauty in that moment between removing the lid and lifting the bowl to the mouth, when one gazes at the still, silent liquid in the dark depths of the bowl, its colour hardly differing from that of the bowl itself. What lies within the darkness one cannot distinguish, but the palm senses the gentle movements of the liquid, vapour rises from within, forming droplets on the rim, and the fragrance carried upon the vapour brings a delicate anticipation ... a moment of mystery, it might almost be called, a moment of trance.

  Junichiro Tanizaki

  Lying, Dark, Mouths

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• I hesitate to say what the functions of the modern journalist may be, but I imagine that they do not exclude the intelligent anticipation of the facts even before they occur.

  George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

  Intelligent, May, Facts

  1898 House of Commons, 29 Mar.

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• I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Real, Fancy, Misery

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