Anticipation Quotes

I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

— Maya Angelou

We fear something before we hate.

— Cyril Connolly

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

— Anonymous

It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.

— Jean de la Bruyere

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear manifested invites danger...

— Lord Chesterfield

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

— Publilius Syrus

“Cursing will create a hole in a whole Heart.”

— Naveed baji

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

— David Jeremiah

“Longing for you is the sweetest anticipation I’ve ever known.”

— Cari Quinn

The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.

— Anonymous

Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure.

— David Hume

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

— Aristotle

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

— Anonymous

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.

— Gautama Buddha

“...anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation.”

— Gaynor Arnold

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

— Dian Fossey

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

— Thomas Harris

“Somehow Bea knew the key would have to be an utter lack of preparation. Of anticipation. Once she allowed space for doubt,…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

I love you now for what we've already shared, and I love you now in anticipation of all that's to come.

— Nicholas Sparks

Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.

— Henry Fielding

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

— Samuel Johnson

Always for me, when theres any leadup or hype or anticipation surrounding an event, such as the release of a show, it…

— Madeleine Madden

You have to have hope. Otherwise, I don't think you could handle it. Of course, you have to have both luck and…

— Clyde Tombaugh

If you do really good storytelling, things that people also might anticipate and that they might have seen before - there's a…

— Kimberly Peirce

The artichoke above all is the vegetable expression of civilised living, of the long view, of increasing delight by anticipation and crescendo.…

— Jane Grigson

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. [We must learn to control and focus the force of our imagination on…

— Seneca the Younger

When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then…

— Anonymous

If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art…

— Alain de Botton

When I was five I learned to read. Books were a miracle to me - white pages, black ink, and new worlds…

— Jennifer Weiner

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; whenwe…

— Samuel Johnson

As a matter of fact, I decided in high school that I was going to go to the seminary. And I did…

— Bob Gunton

There is something intrinsically wrong about letters. For one thing they are not instantaneous. ... Nor is this the only trouble about…

— Vita Sackville-West

I didn't like the way I looked, the way I dressed and moved, what I achieved and what I felt I was…

— Bernhard Schlink

“Our eyes are so focused upon the future, upon some goal in the beyond, that we do not see the beauties and…

— Orison Swett Marden

The Past is dead, and has no resurrection; but the Future is endowed with such a life, that it lives to us…

— Herman Melville

Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader's desire to know…

— Colin Greenland

“She felt excited for no particular reason, in anticipation of exactly what she wasn't sure. It was sort of like everything -…

— Christi Phillips

The vitrines and shelves that I make, the objects displayed can be easily exchanged. This is a key to the work-the objects…

— Josephine Meckseper

To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in…

— Michel Foucault