“Attack is the proof that your enemy anticipates your success.”
Mike Murdock (1946) American televangelist
As quoted in Isms (2006) by Gregory Bergman, p. 105
Attributed
“Attack is the proof that your enemy anticipates your success.”
Mike Murdock (1946) American televangelist
“I don't anticipate success. We're not asked to be successful, we are only asked to be faithful.”
Martin Sheen (1940) American actor
2000s, Progressive magazine interview (2003)
Context: If all of the issues that I have worked on were depending on some measure of success, it would be a total failure. I don't anticipate success. We're not asked to be successful, we are only asked to be faithful. I couldn't even tell you what success is.
“Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.”
Henry Taylor (1800–1886) English playwright and poet
Source: The Statesman (1836), Ch. 9. p. 63
“I don't anticipate trouble and so I anticipate trouble.”
John Steinbeck book The Short Reign of Pippin IV
The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957)
“Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?”
Robin Hobb book Renegade's Magic
Source: Renegade's Magic
“It was anticipating self-defense.”
Mario Cuomo (1932–2015) American politician, Governor of New York
On why he once hit a catcher in the face mask while playing minor league baseball, CBS TV (December 30, 1984)
“Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.”
Angela Carter (1940–1992) English novelist
Source: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”
Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) British filmmaker
Attributed to Hitchcock in Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1984).