Anticipation Quotes - Page 24

• A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.

  James Fenton

  Odes, Rooms, Palaces

  "Changing rooms" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2002.

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• If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

  Thomas Fuller

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Hope

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• Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

  Germaine Greer

  Life, Happiness, Denial

  Germaine Greer (1971). “The female eunuch”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!

  Victor Hugo

  Hope, Wisdom, Men

  "Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)".

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• To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Time, Memories

  Emily Dickinson, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1994). “Emily Dickinson”, p.7, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

  Robin Hobb

  Pain, Why Not, Pleasure

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• When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.

  J. P. Morgan

  Law Of Attraction, Enough, Happens

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

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• Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

  Susanna Moodie

  Encouraging, Dark, Clouds

  Susanna Moodie (2010). “Life in the Clearings versus the Bush”, p.11, New Canadian Library

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• Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

  James Russell Lowell

  Giving, Literature, Return

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.63

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• The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Breaking Away, Losing

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.3

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• A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

  David Hume

  Real, Joy, Sorrow

  David Hume (1788). “Essays, moral, political, and literary.- v. 2. An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.152

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• As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

  Harper Lee

  Joy, Curiosity, Pleasure

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• When I was five I learned to read. Books were a miracle to me - white pages, black ink, and new worlds and different friends in each one. To this day, I relish the feeling of cracking a binding for the first time, the anticipation of where I'll go and whom I'll meet inside.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, White, Miracle

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.500, Simon and Schuster

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• There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Inspirational, Fear, Anxiety

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• What is history but a fable agreed upon?

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Time, Memories, Writing History

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• Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Life, Death, Inadequate

  "The Mother". Play by Bertolt Brecht, 1930.

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• I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Positive Attitude, Opposites

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• People can die of mere imagination.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  People, Imagination, Literature

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1956). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

  Winston Churchill

  Sarcastic, Time, Memories

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Hope, Medicine, Physicians

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.3340, Delphi Classics

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• The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hope

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 2

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• Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

  William Congreve

  Expectations, Joy, Risk

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.229

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• Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

  Norman Cousins

  Hope, Independent, Literature

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• Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Memories, Firsts, Pleasure

  "Pay Now, Consume Later" by Dave Nussbaum,

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• What draws me to the type of snowboarding that I'm doing now is, I go through every emotion in life when I'm climbing these mountains. The fear. The anticipation before that. Getting to the top and the joy of standing on top, and then the adrenaline on going down, and then the kind of overwhelming emotions that I get at the bottom. That whole process is really addicting, and makes me feel alive.

  Jeremy Jones

  Climbing, Snowboarding, Joy

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