Eleanor Porter Quotes

I'm just really excited about my future and I'm really looking forward to taking challenges... and I just can't wait to start.

Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.

...be more guided by hope than fear.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.

I came to Munich full of confidence, with plenty of energy, and really looking forward to it, in a way I don't think I'd had in my career before.

The future is something I'm looking forward to.

Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"?

Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

"Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne. "You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.".

Waiting is the hardest work of hope.

I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.

Not Expecting, but hoping. Always hoping

Waiting is one of life's hardships. It is hard enough to wait for chocolate cream pie while burnt roast beef is still on your plate. It is plenty difficult to wait for Halloween when the tedious month of September is still ahead of you. But to wait for one's adopted uncle to come home while a greedy and violent man is upstairs was one of the worst waits the Baudelaires had ever experienced.

We are waiting for the next moment to contain what this moment does not.

When you're really looking forward to something, you don't feel the sense of pressure.

Can't wait to start camp on Monday. Feeling really hungry this year. Watch out world.

But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?

Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.

There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

Waiting is one of life’s hardships.

I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals. Lady Luck has been good to me and I fancy she has been good to everyone. Only some people are dour, and when she gives them the come hither with her eyes, they look down or turn away and lift an eyebrow. But me, I give her the wink and away we go.