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Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying...

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

Quote by Russell Baker about poetry, public

Anticipation is 98% of the pleasure.

Anticipation is 98% of the pleasure.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about love, pleasure

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Quote by Aristotel about feelings, pain, fear

Keeps death his court and there the antic sits.

Keeps death his court and there the antic sits.

Quote by William Shakespeare about death

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

Quote by Herodotus about risk, fear, being

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation...

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Quote by Alfred Hitchcock about film, fear

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.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about change, wish, state, happiness, nothing, life

Camera are designed with a built-in sensor, that senses...

Camera are designed with a built-in sensor, that senses the anticipation to develop the film.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about photography, film

When the level of anticipation is highest, this sensor...

When the level of anticipation is highest, this sensor causes the back to flip open exposing the film.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about photography, film

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Quote by Norman Cousins about wisdom, consequences

Life: a book that we are not allowed to read before...

Life: a book that we are not allowed to read before living, but only to anticipate what is written one, three, maybe ten pages from now

Quote by Mariana Fulger about life

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