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Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?
Anticipation almost always exceeds the reality of that which we anticipated.
To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.
I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.
The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.
Live with the anticipation that something incredible might happen at any time.
How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.
We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.
When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe.
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
Rebellion' was amazing, there was a lot of anticipation leading up to that event.
Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.
Defeatism about the past is a grievous error; defeatism about the future is a crime!
Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne.
Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.
Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation: 'What is he going to do?'
If today you have nothing to be happy about, thank God for the potential of tomorrow.
...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!
Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.
The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.
Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
There's more anticipation, there's more forgiveness once you prove yourself to the fans.
Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.
I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.
It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.
Perhaps it’s true, my happiest moments are the anticipation of other moments still to come.
The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
The best thing about fear is that it provides a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate courage.
Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.
As we come to the Bible, we can come with the holy anticipation of actually meeting with God.
If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.
Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.
Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.
He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.
Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown.
We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there.
Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense.
It is a great while since I felt the grind of bone under my saw,' he added, smiling with anticipation.
Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.
Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.