Anticipatory Quotes

#1. All those little congruences and arabesques you prepared with such delicate anticipatory pleasure are gobbled up as if by pigs at a pastry cart.

John Updike

#2. Architecture is slow and therefore requires anticipatory design.

Cedric Price

#3. He felt a kind of bridal expectation, sweet and sensuous yet vaguely mingled with anticipatory fear of its own fulfilment, with the mysterious shiver felt when something endlessly desired suddenly comes physically close to the astonished heart.

Stefan Zweig

#4. When the dominant images of a culture are anticipatory, they "lead" social development and provide direction for social change.

Fred Polak

#5. Every footfall of my boots echoes and ricochets louder and louder, the excruciating stroll I take induces her heartbeat into pecking so hard and erratic, my dick starts hurting with an anticipatory throb.

Poppet

#6. Anticipatory obedience is a political tragedy.

Timothy Snyder

#7. But death, as in birth, never comes at a convenient time. No matter how prepared you are that the moment is nigh, no matter how anticipatory you have been, there is never a moment where the realization that this it it, my life is changed forever, doesn't come as a bit of a shock.

Kristy Woodson Harvey

#8. There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#9. I find it soothing to take something wrinkled and make it smooth. It feels anticipatory. It's what I do before a celebration. And nobody bothers me when I'm ironing.

Alexandra Stoddard

#10. The Office's prime approach to architecture ... is one of continuous ANTICIPATORY DESIGN.

Cedric Price

#11. Architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller

Cedric Price

#12. Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.

Robert K. Merton

#13. There is far too much of divorce, wherein hearts are broken, and sometimes lives are destroyed.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#14. I would rather be the hammer than the anvil

Erwin Rommel

#15. Some day you will have to give an account for every penny you spent.

Billy Graham

#16. Next to war, art is the greatest way to immortalize a reputation.

Roman Genn

#17. A candid, honest and pure answer.

Maki Minami

#18. To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.

George Washington

#19. Make enthusiasm a way of life.
Make optimism a way of success.
Make gratitude a way of happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#20. You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once - there has to be a limit

Edward W. Said

#21. You can work really hard and well on something, and someone you respect might hate it; worse, they're not empirically wrong for doing so. This is scary, especially for people who haven't been published.

Darin Strauss

#22. There's a reason why you never see large-chested women finishing marathons first. They've been beaten to death by their breasts around Mile 5. It ain't pretty.

Dawn Dais