Michael Cunningham Quotes

But it's as big as the promise, the promise of a coming day.

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

I am full of a sense of promise, like I often have: the feeling of always being at the beginning.

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.

The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.

Promising is the eve of giving.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

'Almost' is about uncertainty soon to be dismissed but not quite dispelled. 'Almost' is about revelation to come but not entirely promised.

Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.

expectation isn't the same as desire

There is no better moment than this moment, when we're anticipating the actual moment itself. All of the moments that lead up to the actual moment are truly the best moments. Those are the moments that are filled with good times. Those are the moments in which you are able to think that it is going to be perfect, when the moment actually happens. But, the moment is reality, and reality always kinda sucks!

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment.

Doing stuff never feels as good as you hope it will feel.

And the fruits will outdo what the flowers have promised.

If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself.

Remember the past - and await the future.