“Maximus: Lean and hungry. Still nothing? Quintus: Not a sign. Maximus: How long has he been gone? Quintus: Nearly two hours. Valerius: Will they fight, sir? Maximus: We shall know soon enough.”— David Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson, General Quintus, Tomas Arana, imdb.com
“I have imagined this moment for a long time. Is it real?”— Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Morpheus, Laurence Fishburne, imdb.com
“All we can do, Scully, is pull the thread, see what it unravels.”— Chris Carter, Fox Mulder, David Duchovny, imdb.com
“Bill McCoy: Tucker's very excited to meet you. Nucky Thompson: Most people are until they do.”— Terence Winter, Nucky Thompson, Steve Buscemi, imdb.com
“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.”— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com
“Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil; And though calamities have crossed thee, and misery been heaped on thy head, Yet ills that never happened, have chiefly made thee wretched.”— Martin Farquhar Tupper, amazon.com
“You know that if you touch your man’s stuff, he’s going to get excited. Rather than going right for the hot button, though, touch him everywhere else. Again, the anticipation will get him hard in no time.”— Lyndsie Robinson, allwomenstalk.com
“You never know ahead of time what something’s really going to be like.”— Katherine Paterson, Leslie Burke, amazon.com
“Just like foreplay, sexting is all about the buildup. The longer it takes, the better. The prolonged anticipation will keep both you and your partner wanting more, and the two of you can keep going at it until you’re satisfied (wink wink).”— Gina Escandon, hercampus.com
“In all fairness, sexting is the only time you can be a tease and have it be appreciated. The best sext stems from built up anticipation; don't show all the goods at once.”— Gayana Sarkisova, elitedaily.com
“If you have long hair you can take this opportunity to let it down on one side and dangle it in his face to tease him. This is a lot of fun and the smell of your hair is likely to cause mild tremors of anticipation throughout his body!”— Evan M., fromgirltogoddess.com
“Cruelty and injustice [done to you] afford the sufferer the best opportunities for the exercise of virtue.”— Betrand Russell, amazon.com
“The doctrines of stoicism are softened by the humanity of its adherents.”— Betrand Russell, amazon.com
“You need to be smart–but you need adversity to develop strength in order to use that intelligence in an un-ordinary or new way.”— Malcolm Gladwell, amazon.com
“It is less hurtful to take the chances of misfortune as a theme for speculation because in doing so, we provide ourselves at once with measures of precaution against it and a pleasant surprise when it fails to make its appearance.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com