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Looking Forward Quotes (page 4)

What mancan you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he isdying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed, Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Winston Churchill quote: "Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a..."
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip. Winston Churchill
I can no longer refuse myself the pleasure of profiting by your kind invitation when we last parted of spending some weeks with you at Churchhill, and, therefore, if quite convenient to you and Mrs. Vernon to receive me at present, I shall hope within a few days to be introduced to a sister whom I have so long desired to be acquainted with. My kind friends here are most affectionately urgent with me to prolong my stay, but their hospitable and cheerful dispositions lead them too much into... Jane Austen
George Eliot quote: "She felt that she enjoyed it [horseback riding] in a pagan,..."
She felt that she enjoyed it [horseback riding] in a pagan, sensuous way, and always looked forward to renouncing it. George Eliot
I look forward to a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose John F. Kennedy
Jodi Picoult quote: "This sort of obsessing would get him nowhere. He needed to..."
This sort of obsessing would get him nowhere. He needed to move on, to get going, to look forward. Jodi Picoult
I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it. Justin Bieber
Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getting back to my typewriter and writing something. Isaac Asimov
He had never looked forward to the wisdom and other vaunted benefits of old age. Would he be able to die young—and if possible free of all pain? A graceful death—as a richly patterned kimono, thrown carelessly across a polished table, slides unobtrusively down into the darkness of the floor beneath. A death marked by elegance. Yukio Mishima
L. M. Montgomery quote: "Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of..."
Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne. L. M. Montgomery
Why do you persist in being so frivolous, Urgit?"Why don't we just call it a symptom of my incipient madness?"You're not going to go mad," she said firmly."Of course I'm going to go mad, mother. I'm rather looking forward to it. David Eddings
Over and over again, stories in women's magazines insist that women can know fulfillment only at the moment of giving birth to a child. They deny the years when she can no longer look forward to giving birth, even if she repeats the act over and over again. In the feminine mystique, there is no other way for a woman to dream of creation or of the future. There is no other way she can even dream about herself, except as her children's mother, her husband's wife. Betty Friedan
Rita Mae Brown quote: "Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do,..."
Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to. Rita Mae Brown
No one has yet believed in God and the kingdom of God, no one has yet heard about the realm of the resurrected, and not been homesick from that hour, waiting and looking forward joyfully to being released from bodily existence. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary subordinate clauses, as he was soon in the habit of quipping during Happy Hour pickup time at the local campus bars and pubs. He couldn’t say he was looking forward to it, this rest-of-his-life. Margaret Atwood

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