"Running the big rapids is like sex: half……" — Edward Abbey
"Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness."
More Anticipation Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
- Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she… — Francis Beaumont
- Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and… — Dirk Benedict
- He who matures early lives in anticipation. — Theodor Adorno
- There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never… — Josh Billings
- What is history but a fable agreed upon? — Napoleon Bonaparte
- No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. — Hal Borland
- There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other… — Christian Nestell Bovee
- Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. — Bertolt Brecht
- I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. — George Burns
- If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. — Dale Carnegie