Anticipate Quotes

We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?

When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

Markets can influence the events that they anticipate.

The notion of getting pleasure from food has gone too far; we can also get pleasure from anticipating a meal, and from not being quite sated.

There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.

If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.

And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.

The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.

The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.