I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
He's one of those Christmas Eve guys. There are people like that... every day in their lives is Christmas Eve. — Joe Garagiola Copy Share Image
Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine."… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. expect nothing - get nothing! but expect something - get… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of… — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Even though it's meant to be the season of jollity and goodwill, there's something delicious about the anticipation of a Christmassy ghost… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
Each day is a new life. Each moment is really a new life. What we call memories are really present thoughts. What… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
There's more anticipation, there's more forgiveness once you prove yourself to the fans. — Tommaso Ciampa Copy Share Image
As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn't sleep at night from anticipation. — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
[Constant curiousity leads to happiness:] I wake up curious every day and every day I'm surprised by something. And if I can… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. [It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is best to plan for all eventualities then… — Francis Marion Crawford Copy Share Image
“Danger will come upon us when it will. We can't stop it. We can only try to be prepared. There's no point… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I've never met a woman with divine sweetness in her eyes, or a delicacy in her smile that was so glorious, that… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn't really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything. My nerve… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image