Anticipation Pleasure Quotes

#1. Going with intuition a lot of times is very lonely. You're going on hunches - a little voice in here says, "Go this way." And your mind is saying, "You're crazy."

Stacy Peralta

#2. The action stuff is only good if you get the character stuff in there as well. Sometimes that get lost in amongst all the trying to make stuff blow up.

Nicholas Hoult

#3. The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.

Betty Smith

#4. God limits the happiness and pleasure we have now precisely so we might not become attached to this world or dependent upon it or fearful of leaving it (dying), as well as to stir in our hearts a longing and yearning and holy anticipation for what is yet to come.

Sam Storms

#5. There's another part of the brain that seeps dopamine, specifically just before those peak emotional moments in a song: the caudate nucleus, which is involved in the anticipation of pleasure.

Anonymous

#6. The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

Jean De La Bruyere

#7. Like many of you, I was concerned about going out into the world and doing something bigger than myself. Until someone smarter than myself made me realize that there is nothing bigger than myself.

Jim Carrey

#8. Love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing. It's unreasonable, of course. Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure as love, except maybe writing a story. And nothing fails as often, except writing stories. And like a story, love must be troubled to be interesting.

John Dufresne

#9. Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure.

David Hume

#10. Not until her parents came to visit did the McGraw clan, Caleb included, learn that Snow's father was half black, landing Snow squarely and immediately in the undesirable category.

Terri Osburn

#11. Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Robin Hobb

#12. As a reader I loathe introductions ... Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

Harper Lee

#13. Pleasure doing business with you, Chad," Holloway said, setting down the infopanel. "Please die in a fire, Jack," Bourne said.

John Scalzi

#14. They say anticipation makes pleasure more intense.

Iris Johansen

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

John Green

#16. It was an election year and there was reason for concern over the turn of events. The country was waking up. The wave of discontent that was stirring the people was beginning to strike at the heart of that oligarchic society.

Isabel Allende

#17. Anticipation is foreplay, and...pain is the purest form of pleasure

James Crow

#18. Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

Mark Twain

#19. People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be optimistic and to experience intense emotions.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#20. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

Gustave Flaubert

#21. Some kinds of hunger were sweet in themselves, the anticipation of satisfaction as keen a pleasure as the slaking.

Diana Gabaldon

#22. Youth, health, wealth and beauty are meant to be fuel, to be burned in pursuit of pleasure, and not fruit to be pickled in anticipation of some future famine. (Hang on a minute and I'll get my sequins out and give you a quick rendition of 'My Way')

Julie Burchill

#23. She watched unguarded emotion wash across his face as he sank into her. Wonder. Pleasure. Need. Anticipation. Love. Under it all, infusing every look, every action, every touch. Love.

Anne Calhoun

#24. Oh, the sweet, painful pleasure of anticipation!

Genevieve Dewey

#25. Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#26. I want to wear something that's not perfectly matching; there has to be something unorthodox about it. I want to create this mystery.

Theophilus London

#27. The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation
it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.

Ian McEwan

#28. I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters.

Martin Buber

#29. Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.

Muriel Rukeyser

#30. Aim low, reach your goals, and avoid disappointment.

Scott Adams

#31. Planning a few anchor events for a weekend guarantees you pleasure because - even if all goes wrong in the moment - you still will have derived some pleasure from the anticipation.

Laura Vanderkam

#32. Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

Angela Carter

#33. Ideas are a mode of transportation, a vehicle that you can use to take yourself from wherever you are to wherever you want to go.

Brian Tracy

#34. And so, wish becomes pang; the crave, an ache; pleasure, pain. Losing all its pleasure, anticipation cuts the opposite direction and becomes merely a constant, painful reminder of what they've lost, forever.

Geoffrey Wood

#35. Isn't the most reliable form of pleasure, Flaubert implies, the pleasure of anticipation? Who needs to burst into fulfilment's desolate attic?

Julian Barnes

#36. I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

Fred Rogers