Quotes about Anticipation

By and by never comes.

The Doors Open at 7, The trouble begins at 8.

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

Yes, a genuine expert can always foretell a thing that is five hundred years away easier than he can a thing that's only five hundred seconds off.

We had a strong desire to make a trip up the Yazoo and the Sunflower—an interesting region at any time, but additionally interesting at this time, because up there the great inundation was still to be seen in force—but we were nearly sure to have to wait a day or more for a New Orleans boat on our return; so we were obliged to give up the project.

I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time comes I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

we generally find pleasure to be not nearly so pleasant as we expected, and pain very much more painful.

Think with the end in mind. Before you go on a trip, you determine your destination and plan out the best route. Before you plant a garden, you plan it out in your mind, possibly on paper. You create speeches on paper before you give them, you envision the landscaping in your yard before you landscape it. You design the clothes you make before you thread the needle.

You cannot predict the future.

You cannot predict the future.

The greatest gift life can give you today is the promise of tomorrow.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.