There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions. — Robert South Copy Share Image
Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
My family is delighted every time I cook maitake. Our taste buds awaken in anticipation of its rich, deep and nuanced flavors. — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
I've waited for a novel from Charles Yu with eager anticipation since being bowled over by his 2006 short story collection, 'Third… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was shaping up to be one of a handful of days in my life that filled me with the kind of… — Chad Kultgen Copy Share Image
You know what makes your heart swift, you know what makes your breath catch your throat, you know what makes your chest… — Sanjay Gupta Copy Share Image
Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard or too sad when you've got a Christmas tree in the living room. All those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
This is crazier and louder than I was prepared for. With every week, the fervour and anticipation seem to grow. People know… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
We totally misunderstand both his aims and his contribution if we try to read into Marx some anticipation of either the modest… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to… — Samuel Butler 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
“Anticipation. In love and travel, getting there is half the fun. The lustful impatience, the passionate daydreams, the nerve-wracking waiting ... lovers… — Vivian Swift Copy Share Image
“I wait for this rare and fleeting event because I can't think of anything else worth waiting for.” — Peter Davis Copy Share Image
Until there was you, I wandered aimlessly. For a long time, like a little child, I will cry in anticipation of you. — Ko Joon-hee Copy Share Image
“The morning was glorious, one of those crystalline, dry, blue, fall days when the temperature hovers right at anticipation.” — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the… — John Green Copy Share Image
We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Animals love and suffer, cry and laugh; their hearts rise up in anticipation and fall in despair...they feel. — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
It is a great while since I felt the grind of bone under my saw,' he added, smiling with anticipation. — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing. — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
I get a real buzz going into a stadium, a full house, the anticipation of how the game is going to pan… — Graeme Souness Copy Share Image
Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle… — Felicity Kendal Copy Share Image
We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
And I see that not touching for so long was a drive to the beach with the windows rolled up so the… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed...connection? — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel. — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“Like a rollercoaster, my mind had climbed its way to the top—only to witness how far there was to fall. And like… — Katherine McIntyre Copy Share Image
I live in constant anticipation of good stuff. It's not being 'Pollyanna' about things, but most stories don't have the ending we… — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
“Love - anticipation of a future because we never know what the future will bring but we know we want it with… — Shane Kaelle Copy Share Image
To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image