Top 25 Anticipation Quotes of 209 - Page 5

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

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

Alfred North Whitehead

Memories, Vivid, Anticipation

Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.

Alain de Botton

Memories, Anticipation, Instruments

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.

Aesop

Reality, Anticipation, Mere

Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables”, p.57, Aesop

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

A. R. Ammons

Sight, Events, Anticipation

A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

If life were eternal, all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends it fascination.

Yoshida Kenko

Fascination, Anticipation, Mindset

It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.

Winston Churchill

Events, Would Be, Anticipation

Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). “Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words”

All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.

William Shakespeare

Spirit, Anticipation, Merchant Of Venice

William Shakespeare (1805). “The Comedy of the Merchant of Venice ...”, p.92

Hope is the best possession.

William Hazlitt

Hopeful, Anticipation, Possession

William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1468, Delphi Classics

For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.

William Carlos Williams

Anticipation, Descent, Lost

1948 Paterson, bk.2,'Sunday in the Park',1.

If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

Toni Morrison

Anticipation, Certainty, Ifs

Toni Morrison (2014). “The Bluest Eye”, p.8, Random House

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Samuel Smiles

Reality, Desire, Anticipation

Samuel Smiles (2014). “Self-Help”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Samuel Johnson

World, Saws, Anticipation

Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.148, Univ of California Press

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Samuel Johnson

Wish, Next, Anticipation

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.487

Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.

Samuel Johnson

Anticipation, Advantage, Certain

Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers, Gilbert Wakefield (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers ... and Others; to which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author”, p.235