#anticipation

The days passed in a dream. I pictured our reunion again and again, played it out in my mind over and over until I’d almost worn a groove in my thoughts, so deep that it seemed the only thing I could think of was our reunion. Anticipation is a gift. Perhaps there is none greater. Anticipation is born of hope. Indeed it is hope’s finest expression. In hope’s loss, however, is the greatest despair. ↗

— Steven L. Peck

#despair #hope #longing #loss #love

Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#happiness #life #memory #pleasure #education

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

— John Green

#pleasure

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

Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#life #family

I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I've played so many matches in my life. ↗

— Martina Hingis

#ball #because #good #i #life

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#anticipation #back #city #come #dread

So not only do we need to deal with threats as they emerge, we have to be thinking in anticipation of future threats, and the things we do have to be things that enable the system to continue to work. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#continue #deal #emerge #enable #future

Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#battle #brightest #face #far #fought

Giving consumers the choice of having it all in one big bite means different viewers are in many different places in the book, making it hard to discuss without spoiling the plot. The intervals between first-run programming provide a space for communion and that tantalizing sense of anticipation. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#between #big #bite #book #choice