#anticipation

For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week. ↗

— John Sununu

#anticipation #bureaucrats #bury #dropped #dump

I love clean sheets. It's the simultaneous reminiscence of how they got dirtied to begin with, and hopeful anticipation of what stories they will live to tell next time you are standing fatefully in front of the washing machine. ↗

— Kristie LeVangie

#clean #dirty #life-experience #sex #sexuality

I never assume anything. I anticipate the possibilities and allow my imagination to create the future. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#imagination #insight #prediction #imagination

Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#acting

He ran his finger along my jawline and down my neck. "The wait will be fun, but it's not going to be easy. ↗

— Amy Plum

#die-for-me #lust #vincent #fun

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting ↗

— Andy Warhol

#idea

The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it. ↗

— John Green

#pleasure

Whereas during those months of separation time had never gone quickly enough for their liking and they were wanting to speed its flight, now that they were in sight of the town they would have liked to slow it down and hold each moment in suspense, once the breaks went on and the train was entering the station. For the sensation, confused perhaps, but none the less poingant for that, of all those days and weeks and months of life lost to their love made them vaguely feel they were entitled to some compensation; this present hour of joy should run at half the speed of those long hours of waiting. ↗

— Albert Camus

#love #separation #life

In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#direction #discrete #political #problems #solutions

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#anticipation #calamity #future #great #great source