Best Anticipation Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 6

“I can never think of the time I spend idling in railway stations as lost; it's a waiting liberated from the three temporal vices of regret, anticipation or boredom, the weak echo of that bliss spent between lifetimes.”

Thinking I Can Three Lost Waiting Regret Weak Lifetime Vices Bliss Boredom Stations Anticipation Echoes Liberated Transport Railway Railway Station

Author:Eric Morecambe

“But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.”

Men Should Writing Use Accounts Anticipation Publishing

Book:The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author

“In committed sex, in marriage, people don't feel the need to seduce or to build anticipation - - that's an effort they think they no longer need to do now that they have conquered their partner. If they're in the mood, their partner should be too.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Feels Should Sex Effort Committed Partners Mood Anticipation Seducing

Author:Esther Perel

“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”

Inspirational Horror Terror Cinema Filmmaker Anticipation Bangs Bladder

Author:Alfred Hitchcock

“If you think hitting 40 is liberating, wait until you hit 50; and I was surprised at how liberating it was. The anticipation of something is always much worse than the reality.”

Ifs Thinking Reality Waiting Anticipation Hitting Liberating

Author:Michelle Pfeiffer

“We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.”

Satisfaction Anticipation

Author:Samuel Johnson

“When you write a scene where somebody is afraid of something you instantly go to decades of genre cinema: horror, suspense, and thrillers. Those are very cinematic genres, when you shoot a close-up of someone and you can see fear in the person's face, or anticipation, or some kind of anxiety, it's a very cinematic image.”

Writing Kind Persons Faces Horror Scene Anxiety Decades Suspense Genre Cinema Anticipation Thrillers Cinematic

Author:Kleber Mendonca Filho

“I never considered myself a good photographer. I still don't. I thought of myself as a hard worker. My camera was a sponge and I had an instinct that athletes have - anticipation. Photography really represents an enormous amount of anticipation - understanding what might be there the next moment and being prepared for it.”

Stills Hard Moments Might Next Understanding Hard Work Amount Photography Cameras Prepared Instinct Workers Photographer Athlete Enormous Anticipation Sponges Hard Worker

Author:Lawrence Schiller

“Failure is important because the first time you win (or lose), it could be luck, it could be timing, or it could be talent. It's only after you fail once or twice and learn to rely equally on thought, analysis, and anticipation-in addition to speed, talent, and execution-that you can really call yourself an entrepreneur ... In the long run, it's mind over muscle, strategy over strength, and a healthy perspective-not just a lot of perspiration-that make someone a real success in his or her business and in the equally important rest of his or her life.”

“Civil Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of man; being that practical application of the most important principles of natural Philosophy which has in a considerable degree realized the anticipations of Bacon, and changed the aspect and state of affairs in the whole world. The most important object of Civil Engineering is to improve the means of production and of traffic in states, both for external and internal Trade.”

“I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.”

Spring Anticipation Leafs Trembling

Book:Letter to My Daughter

Source: Letter to My Daughter

“Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.”

Giving Desire Literature Answers Expectations Disappointment Satisfaction Heartache Anticipation Stubborn Disappoint

Author:Elbert Hubbard

“If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.”

Ifs Remember Literature Pleasure Virtue Trouble Anticipation

Book:Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work

Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work

“Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!”

Men Wisdom Hope Written Every Man Hopeful Anticipation Brows No Hope Having Hope Hopes And Dreams Without Hope Hoping For The Best Hope And Despair Great Hope Hope In God Words Of Hope Don't Lose Hope

Author:Victor Hugo

“A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.”

Real Joy Poverty Sorrow Riches Anticipation Propensity

Book:Essays, moral, political, and literary.- v. 2. An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion

Source: Essays, moral, political, and literary.- v. 2. An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion

“Fishing seems to be divided, like sex, into three unequal parts: anticipation and recollection and, in between, actual performance.”

Seems Three Sex Performances Fishing Divided Anticipation Recollection

Author:Arnold Gingrich

“What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.”

Memories Perceive Anticipation Vivid Fringe

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“When we sit thoughtfully pondering in a quiet place and the Spirit speaks to us, there will come into our hearts and souls the things that are truly our greatest desires, those things that are more important in the long run than anything else. Away from the appeal of the world, that greatest desire usually relates to relationships with family and with the Lord. And when that priority is in place, then we begin to plan our lives with purpose. We begin to have goals that cause us to live with anticipation.”