Dorothy Gilman Quotes

Waiting is not always a bad thing; it can bring its own joy -the thrill of anticipation.

He who awaits much can expect little.

Sometimes, waiting for too long for the right film may fall flat.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

One must wait till it comes.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

What more can we require? Nothing but time.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.

The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!

Everyone was thinking it was going to be a bust. I felt redeemed.

This is the best night of my life. And it's going to get better.

I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems to be at best a momentary joy followed instantly by sadness, and, then, of necessity, by wariness.

I thought happiness came from achievement.

I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.

Blessed are those that nought expect, for they shall not be disappointed.

Wait the end with joy. It is the end which characterizes everything and which tests a man's expectations.

When you get a trophy, why go jumping and crying? Winning's a great feeling, but everything else is an anti-climax.

I really wanted to buy a Range Rover. It was a big dream, and the day I bought it, I was very happy, but by evening, I was immune to it. That's when I realized that excitement, if it's happiness, is not in reaching the goal but in the process. Thus process trumps over realization.

If you're patient and you wait long enough, something will usually happen and it'll usually be something you don't like.

Thorkell Mylrea had waited long for a dead man's shoes, but he was wearing them at length.

Some things in life are worth waiting for.

you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.

Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not half the Pleasure in the actual Possession of them, that he proposed to himself in the Expectation.